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NewsMedicaid quality measures pull heavily from Meaningful Use
In finalizing its initial core set of 26 healthcare quality measures for Medicaid-eligible adults, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services borrows heavily from quality measures already Read more...
CMS Meaningful Use payments close to $2B
Close to $2 billion has been paid to providers by both Medicare and Medicaid for the electronic health record incentive program, Health Data Management reports. Overall, more than 10,000 eligible Read more...
HIMSS: Majority of hospitals don't qualify for Meaningful Use
While the number of hospitals ready or likely to meet the Meaningful Use requirements of the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs has grown, more than half remain Read more...
CMS answers more questions about EHR incentive programs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released eight new answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) to keep providers informed about the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health Read more...
26% of CHIME CIOs set to receive Meaningful Use incentives
Most hospital chief information officers (CIOs) believe that their facilities will achieve Meaningful Use and receive payments from the electronic health record incentive program, but it may take Read more...
EHR fraud, abuse a big focus of latest OIG plan
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced in its 2012 work plan that it intends to take a much closer look at violations of fraud and abuse in Read more...
Registered providers for EHR incentives surpass 90K mark
Nearly 91,000 eligible professionals and hospitals have signed up to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs so far in 2011, according to the Office of Read more...
Meaningful 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...
EHR waste: States pay millions in incentives without verifying
A number of states could be paying millions of dollars in Medicaid incentives to ineligible hospitals and physicians' offices under Meaningful Use, a new report from the Department of Health and 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...
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