Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to ...

Indictment Issued for False Statements to CMS and Aggravated Identity Theft It was just a matter of time before the CMS EHR Incentive audit process uncovered alleged actions so severe that there was ...

A recently released report from HHS’ Office of the Inspector General criticizing CMS’s electronic health record fraud-detection procedures has several Senators’ concerns about CMS’ EHR incentive ...

Arguing that too many well-meaning providers are facing financial penalties from meaningful use, the American Hospital Association called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week to ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) ...

Now more than ever, providers are exploring whether the Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement program is best to receive their EHR incentive payments. For many, both are an option, and according to ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program State 2 Final Rule, and in it created a new hardship exemption to temporarily allow ...

CMS EHR Incentives: The Dark Side The US Federal Government is spending untold billions of dollars in an effort to promote the transition of our health care system from one based on paper to one based ...

Quality data is critical to informing public health actions. | The time has come for CMS to implement performance measures—or quantitative metrics—for public health and clinical data exchange, writes ...

If your organization uses Electronic Health Records (EHRs), the recent updates to the SAFER Guidelines (Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience) are essential for helping you assess the potential ...