Importance of Mock Audits – Focus on Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have made it clear that at a minimum 5% of EHs and CAHs will have their EHR incentives audited for each stage of meaningful use. A portion of these audits will be random, the rest, however, triggered by red flags including:
- Failure of a first audit appears to lead to a second audit of an earlier meaningful use attestation.
- The majority of failed audits seem to occur either for lack of having adequate documentation of the MU measures, proof of exclusion validity, or the Security Risk Analysis.
Additionally, the focus of the audit program continues to shift toward pre-payment audits. In the past several months a large wave of “limited” audits have been initiated, frequently asking for one thing – documentation of certified technology. It has never been more critical for EHs and CAHs to look at conducting a mock audit to mitigate risk and identify potential problems.
Join national meaningful use expert Jim Tate, and leading HIPAA security expert Steve Spearman as they review best practices for conducting a mock audit.
Date: Monday, July 28 at 2 pm Eastern/1 pm Central
Learning Objectives: This informative webinar will address:
- Need for Mock Audits
- Best Practices
- Documentation Requirements
- Mitigation Strategy
- Response Preparation
- Risk Analysis Essentials
REGISTER HERE – space is limited.
Presenters:
About Jim Tate
Jim Tate is known as the most experienced authority on the CMS Meaningful Use (MU) audit and appeal process. His unique combination of skills has brought successful outcomes to hospitals at risk of having their CMS EHR incentives recouped. He led the first appeal challenge in the nation for a client hospital that had received a negative audit determination. That appeal was decided in favor of the hospital. He has also been successful in leading the effort to reverse a failed appeal, even after the hospital had received notification of the failure with the statement, “This decision is final and not subject to further appeal”. That “final” decision was reversed in less than a week. He is the founder of EMR Advocate and Meaningful Use Audits. Contact him at: audits@emradvocate.com.
About Steve Spearman
Steve Spearman is the Founder and Chief Security Consultant for Health Security Solutions. He has been employed in the healthcare industry since 1991, when he began working with Patient Care Technologies, an electronic medical record solutions provider. As Chief Security Consultant, Steve stays busy providing HIPAA Risk Analysis for clients and business partners. In addition to his duties at Health Security Solutions, Steve also serves as a member of the Health Care Advisory Council of Ingram Micro, as a speaker for Comp-TIA, and a consultant for state Regional Extension Centers such as CITIA and GA-HITREC. Contact him at: sspearman@healthsecuritysolutions.com