Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens Jan. 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. Eligible professionals, eligible ...

This summer, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued final regulations on the definition of ...

Several times a week I am asked the following question: “What is the absolutely last drop dead date an eligible professional can meet the CMS EHR Incentive Program requirements and not leave any money ...

Indictment Issued for False Statements to CMS and Aggravated Identity Theft It was just a matter of time before the CMS EHR Incentive audit process uncovered alleged actions so severe that there was ...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to ...

Mental health care professionals currently do not qualify for the EHR incentive program, leaving them to pay for their record systems on their own. Mental health physicians, clinics and psychiatric ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) ...

Seventeen total states have launched their Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, and 11 of them have paid a total of $114.4 million to qualifying physicians and hospitals, according to a Government Health ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists has submitted comments to CMS regarding proposed rules on EHR meaningful use and CMS’ EHR incentive program, according to a release by the ASA. In its ...

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