CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report in November. Active registrants total over a half a million.
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By John Halamka MD – The December 2015 HIT Standards Committee focused on 3 key projects as we wrapped up our work for the year. Cris Ross presented the work of the Certified Technology Comparison Task Force. The idea behind this work is simple.
CMS proposed to revise the discharge planning requirements that hospitals, including long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals, and home health agencies, must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report in October. Active registrants total over a half a million.
CMS is reporting these events, updates and deadlines for providers. These items focus on the agency’s financial and payment responsibilities to providers. Read and sign up for the CMS weekly newsletter MLN Connects® Provider eNews for the most current news.
To help EP, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals successfully participate in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs in 2015, CMS has posted new resources on the CMS EHR Incentive Programs website.
HIMSS has released a survey to assess how providers are preparing for the shift to value-based payment models. Providers in all settings can participate. The survey will be available through 12/31/2015, with results shared at the HIMSS 16 in Las Vegas in February.
By William Hyman – Recently I addressed here the issue of physicians having to use certain functions of their EHR even if they didn’t need those functions to accomplish the desired outcome. Notably, it is required under Meaningful Use to have certain prompts occur whether or not those prompts are necessary.
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) advances alternative payment models for physicians, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) urged policymakers to streamline the Meaningful Use program and reduce the reporting burden on providers by better aligning quality measures.