Surprisingly, the answer is no. The Medicaid program is a bit quirky in that in the initial year an eligible provider doesn’t have to actually be using an EHR, meaningfully or otherwise. On the ...

What I found most striking about the Office of Inspector General's report last week lambasting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for inadequate auditing and oversight of the Meaningful Use ...

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 ...

The American Hospital Association urged that the Department of Health and Human Services address regulatory issues — including meaningful use and electronic health record incentives — as HHS undergoes ...

In July, 16 hospitals that were registered for both Medicare and Medicaid EHR programs collectively received more than $30 million in Medicare meaningful use incentive payments, according to a CMS ...

The billions of dollars worth of HITECH Act incentives available to hospitals and physicians using electronic health records are serving as a powerful catalyst for information security as well. Many ...

Congress on Wednesday will consider legislation to allow physicians working in ambulatory surgical centers to receive the same payment incentives for meaningful use of electronic health records as ...

A new report from the Office of Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) might not entirely spill the meaningful use apple cart, but it certainly isn't going to make ...

With the government's meaningful use payments scheduled to peter out this year, researchers from the Robert Graham Center find that primary care physicians and those in small practices are most likely ...

The following Q&A comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website. Q: For the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, should patient encounters in an ...

We’ve all seen articles, interviews, and blog posts telling hospitals how to be prepared for potential audits of their meaningful use (MU) incentives. “Lessons Learned” and “Best Practices” abound in ...

March 9, 2010 — When Congress promised physicians and hospitals last year billions of dollars in incentive payments if they adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems, it attached some proverbial ...