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) ...

Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens Jan. 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. Eligible professionals, eligible ...

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 ...

More than $5 billion has been paid to eligible professionals and hospitals under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record incentive payment programs since the Medicare program began in May ...

During the month of March, 128 hospitals registered for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive program bringing the program total to 3,483 eligible and critical access hospitals.

The EHR Incentive Program, often dubbed “Meaningful Use”, has been surrounded by questions and confusion among anesthesiologists and practice administrators since its inception. Currently, the ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin to make meaningful use incentive payments to eligible physicians and hospitals as early as May 2011, according to a senior CMS official, who ...

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 ...

Physicians near retirement wouldn't suffer a Medicare pay cut for failing to adopt an electronic health record (EHRs) system, and soloists would get a 3-year hiatus from this penalty under a bill ...