Eligible professionals receive the payment adjustment amount that is tied to the year that they did not demonstrate meaningful use (e.g., an eligible professional who receives a payment...
Meaningful use is a federal incentive program designed to promote the adoption of electronic health records. Learn more about the three stages, requirements and objectives of the program, and find...
A brief review of the Meaningful Use incentive program for eligible professionals is presented, highlighting the legislative history, criteria, and incentive payment plan of the program. Clinical m...
Are you meeting MIPS Meaningful Use and interoperability requirements? Learn why your EHR is important to attesting MU and maximizing Medicare reimbursements.
This issue brief discusses the history of meaningful use, the measures used to evaluate effectiveness, and the policy implications of the HHS requirements. There is a longstanding...
Stage 1 established the base requirements for electronic capturing of clinical data. Stage 2 encouraged the use of EHRs for increased exchange of information and continuous quality improvement at the point of care. Modified Stage 2, released in October 2015, consolidated Stages 1 and 2 into a new program. These are the current requirements all physicians should follow. While some changes were made to reduce the complexity of the measures, many of the objectives were carried over from Stage 2.
State tax revenues held steady in 2020, coming in less than one-tenth of 1 percent lower than in 2019, according to the latest JPMorgan research (which is consistent with earlier data), and combined state and local revenues have likely risen year-over-year. This is a curious backdrop to the current federal debate, in which Congress is considering authorizing $350 billion in direct aid to state and local governments. There is, however, one area where states face a serious fiscal hardship: their unemployment compensation trust funds. If Congress ...
In a value-based care system, the measures that determine the level of payment must accurately reflect the quality of care delivered, produce comparable and consistent results against the measure’s intent and be actionable to drive care improvement. In addition, quality measures must support the Quadruple Aim: improve health outcomes, improve patient experience, decrease clinician burnout and lower healthcare costs. While all currently available methods of measurement have limitations, the accuracy of and the ability to report measures across ...
Mountainside Hospital, a 365-bed suburban facility in Montclair, N.J., has met Stage 1 meaningful use criteria using the certified electronic health record (EHR) from Healthcare Management Systems...
Eligible Professionals (EP) must complete: 15 Core Objectives · 5 objectives out of 10 from Menu Set · 6 total Clinical Quality Measures (CQM) · 3 core · 3 out of 38 from Additional Set · Reporting of CQM