EHR Incentive Programs

Pew Recommends CMS Reconsider EHR Advance Care Plan Updates

December 18, 2015 - Making decisions in life is not always easy. End-of-life care decisions are no exception. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed numerous revisions to the physician payment system under MACRA. The Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew) expressed its concern last month regarding the lack of end-of-life conversations and the...


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AMA Inaugurates Stack, Youngest President in 160 Year History

by Jacqueline DiChiara

Steven J. Stack, MD, has been sworn in as the youngest president of the American Medical Association (AMA) within the past 160 years. Stack is the 170th president of the AMA, the nation’s...

How Providers Can Avoid 2016 Medicare Payment Adjustments

by Jacqueline DiChiara

On January 1, 2016, payment adjustments will begin for those Medicare eligible professionals not participating in 2014's Medicare Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program, confirms the...

Top Six Proposed Physician Fee Schedules, Payment Policies

by Jacqueline DiChiara

The healthcare industry awaits the possibility of great financial policy adjustment in the immediate future due to a continuous stream of announcements from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

Congress Debates Economic Benefits of EHR Incentive Programs

by Jacqueline DiChiara

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs are failing to prove economically beneficial and impose unreasonable mandates on providers according to members of the Senate Health, Education,...

Affordable Care Act Means Lower Reimbursement for Physicians

by Jacqueline DiChiara

One year after The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) implementation, most physicians urge Congress to overturn the legislation after experiencing lower reimbursement, as reported in a recent physician...

Many Denials, Rejections to Follow the ICD-10 Transition?

by Jacqueline DiChiara

After profuse speculation and ample delay, the deadline for the healthcare industry ICD-10 transition remains set for Oct. 1, 2015. As popular speculation of especially disastrous results prospers,...

EHR Incentive Payments, Medicare Payment Adjustments in Brief

by Jacqueline DiChiara

The EHR Incentive Programs comprise two distinct programs: one for Medicare and other for Medicaid providers. The Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs grant incentive payments for qualifying...

EHR Incentive Program Deadline Rapidly Approaching

by Ryan Mcaskill

The deadline for providers to receive payments from the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program is February 28. The healthcare industry is just about one month away from the February 28 Eligible...

Financial Incentives, Data Exchange Drive EHR-HIT Adoption

by Stephanie Reardon

62 percent of physicians who adopted health IT tools cited financial incentives and penalties as being influential. A data brief released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...

HITECH Report: Healthcare Reform Continues with EHR Adoption

by Elizabeth Snell

The continued advancement of health IT adoption, health information exchange and the use of electronic health information are all important tools to improve the quality of healthcare in the nation....

Meaningful Use Hardship Exemption Period Reopened

by Elizabeth Snell

In an effort to relieve more physicians who are struggling to meet reporting mandates, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced earlier this week that it reopened the meaningful...

OIG: La. overpaid $1.8 million in meaningful use incentives

by Elizabeth Snell

The Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals was one of the first state organizations to pay EHR incentive payments. In fact, Louisiana made approximately $93 million in Medicaid EHR Incentive...