EHR Tool Guide
There’s Still Time to Receive Your Incentive Payment for Using an Electronic Medical Record!
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed what it describes as a “comprehensive tool” to help guide you through all phases of the Medicare electronic health record incentive payment program.
The Web-based interactive resource “An Introduction to the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for Eligible Professionals” (PDF) includes chapters on program basics, eligibility, and registration. It also has a description of all of Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria and advises practitioners on how to choose the optional measures they will use as part of the attestation phase of the program.
Physicians and other eligible professionals have until December 31, 2011 to complete 90 consecutive days of meaningful use of a certified EHR and until February 28, 2012 to report their data and attest that they have met the criteria to be deemed meaningful users in the Medicare portion of the program.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also announced that the CMS would roll back by one year the deadline for compliance with what are expected to be more-stringent Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria in an effort to induce more practitioners to attest this year.
Sebelius also announced HHS would target eligible professionals who have registered for the Medicare EHR incentive payment program but have not yet attested as meaningful users with additional outreach, education and training programs to speed up EHR adoption.
Published December 6, 2011
Good , lack of some details
I recently put up a Home Healthcare Agency.The agency is using the EMR(electronic medical record),Is the agency qualified to get incentive from the Medicare?we did not have the capacity to bill yet,we are still waiting for our Provider NO.How will I proceed to apply for the Medicare Incentive?Please let me know.
Hello Dr. Joaquin,
We had a specialist talk on this very subject. You might check out the video, very short segments so it’s easy to follow. http://www.primaryissues.org/2011/09/meaningful-use/