Most importantly, CMS reduced the number of measures for Advancing Care Information (ACI), the successor to the meaningful use program, from 11 in the MACRA proposal to just five in the final rule. The objectives in the ACI performance category — one of four categories in MACRA's Merit-Bas...
Claire Marblestone
The Meaningful Use program requires providers to share data with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure satisfactory health care quality. Using the Quality Reporting Document Architecture [4], providers are required to submit data in support of the quality measures applicable ...
HIMSS will continue to monitor the progress on CMS meaningful use Stage 3 program and the 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria.Look for updated information at the Policy Center on the HIMSS website.
Attesting for Meaningful Use is a 3-step process: Step 1: Register To get started, be sure to register with CMS for the EHR Incentive program if you haven’t already. Note that CMS allows eligible professionals to designate a third party to register and attest on their behalf. Step 2: ...
CMS: meaningful use is on the way out, but not just yet While CMS's Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt said that the meaningful use program will soon be replaced with something better, health IT leaders seem uncertain on if momentous changes are indeed in store. The demise of meaningful use?
Case law, State and Federal Courts, Commercial carrier contracts (Provider/Subscriber) and incorporated standards (CPT/CMS), Federal Statutory, Medicare Statutes, HHS regulations, CMS interpretive guidance (Internet Only Manuals), local contractor rules (LCD’s) are all types of controlling standards....
CMS is about to lose a top Medicaid official Here’s the easiest prediction I will make this week: Dr, Andrey Ostrovsky, chief medical officer of theCenter for Medicaid and CHIP Services, is about to lose his job after just six months. ...
Rumors about the next phase of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program has prompted concern among healthcare providers. To truly understand meaningful use Stage 3 and its impact, it is important to differentiate between the rumors and the truth. ...
Meaningful use Stage 2 ramps up info sharing The article discusses the meaningful use of Stage 2 of the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to facilitate information sharing among urologists. Topics include the need ... RA Dowlin...