Category: Regulations

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Meaningful Use audits will be conducted on 5 to 10 percent of eligible professionals prior to their EHR incentive payments being doled out. CMS announced that, beginning with Meaningful Use

Achieving the Meaningful Use core objectives for Stage 2 is no small task. It’s not like baseball, where batting .300 means you’re doing great. Meeting even most of the 17 objectives will leave you without an incentive payment. It’s literally

It’s crunch time. The Meaningful Use attestation deadline for Medicare EPs reporting for the 2012 calendar year is February 28. That’s right, only four days away. It’s your last chance if you plan on earning the entire $44,000 maximum incentive.

Patient portals are the broccoli of the health IT world – loaded with benefits, but patients still won’t touch them. Patient adoption and usage of patient portals is at a mere 6% nationwide according to Chilmark Research. The problem is,

Providers pursuing meaningful use Stage 2 incentives offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the adoption of certified EHR technology need to be aware of key developments in order to qualify for full payment under the program.

Don’t feel discouraged if you haven’t begun to attest to Meaningful Use Stage 1 – we’re here to help! Download our free on-demand webinar, Meaningful Use Made Simple: Streamline Stage 1 and Prepare for Stage 2 today! If you’ve delayed

While attaining Meaningful Use monies isn’t easy per se, you at least know you’ll justify some of your implementation costs. The Medicare and Medicaid Incentive Programs seem pretty clear cut – you meet the CMS-ONC requirements, they cut you a

Meaningful Use is a challenge, and it’s no surprise if you still haven’t tried attesting for Stage 1. After all, even the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) knows it may have complicated issues to deal with if they