Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services news from FierceEMR
NewsMeaningful Use payment volume steadily increasing
Preliminary data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show attestations and payments for Meaningful Use of electronic health records, while off to a slow start, are starting to Read more...
EMRs trump Medicaid for wealth of detailed data
As more states begin launching Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) Meaningful Use incentive programs, healthcare organizations using those EHRs may find that they can start obtaining a more Read more...
Report MU clinical quality measures via attestation in 2012, CMS says
The 2011 requirements for reporting clinical quality measures (CQM) for Meaningful Use will remain the same in 2012. That is, hospitals, critical access hospitals and eligible professionals can Read more...
AMA, HIMSS urge HHS to simplify Meaningful Use regs
Seven healthcare groups--taking on a challenge posed this past February at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting--have proposed five recommendations that Read more...
EHR vendor group support ACOs, with caveats
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) "represent one of the first real steps to building a new value-driven healthcare system," the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association said in comments Read more...
CMS clarifies patient data request info for EHRs
In its "Frequently Asked Questions" section on Meaningful Use and incentives, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) this week added a response about when patients should receive copies Read more...
Panel proposes delay of Meaningful Use Stage 2
After hearing numerous concerns from providers and electronic health record (EHR) vendors, the Health IT Policy Committee--in a 12 to 5 vote on June 8--recommended delaying by one year (until 2014) Read more...
'Duplicative' e-prescribing, EHR incentive schedules to be modified, aligned
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), under increasing pressure from providers to modify potential conflicts in its electronic prescribing incentives schedule with its electronic Read more...
Medicare issues $75M in first Meaningful Use payments
In its first round of payments that began on May 19, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) got off to a slow start by issuing $75 million in Medicare electronic health record incentive Read more...
CMS begins pay-outs of Medicare EHR incentives
The first incentive payments from Medicare officially rolled out to physicians and hospitals last week to those successfully demonstrating Meaningful Use of electronic health records during Stage 1. Read more...
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