As a technology partner with solutions purpose-built for behavioral healthcare, Qualifacts is collaborating with CMS and industry-leading colleagues to advance secure, standards-based interoperability ...

CMS announced that Medicare incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records will suffer a 2 percent cut beginning April 1, under a federal budget sequester of $85 billion through ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs include three stages with increasing requirements for participation. CMS recently published a set of proposed rules that include the proposed rule for ...

The American Medical Association and 98 other medical societies this week sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services arguing that its latest criteria for meaningful use of ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services addressed site neutral payments, pain management amid the opioid crisis, and changes to lower the reporting burden of electronic health records, in a ...

With some healthcare providers now into their second year of meaningful use reporting, Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments were estimated at $12.3 billion paid to a total of ...

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 ...

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. That’s the predicament many providers find themselves in with the two current CMS eRx initiatives. The 2008 MIPPA (Medicare Improvements for Patients and ...

When the annual Government Health IT conference (GHIT11) takes place next month in Washington, D.C., Jessica Kahn, technical director for health IT at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, ...

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.