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A Call for Relaxing Meaningful Use Critiera
Quite a few groups have criticized the draft meaningful use requirements as being too complex and nearly impossible to comply with. Now, the Health IT Policy Committee has called for relaxation of the standards that providers must meet to receive EHR incentive funding.
Quite a few groups have criticized the draft meaningful use requirements as being too complex and nearly impossible to comply with. Now, the Health IT Policy Committee has called for relaxation of the standards that providers must meet to receive EHR incentive funding.
As it stands, providers would have to perform 25 different measures in the areas of care coordination, privacy, quality and safety, etc. But in their recommendation submitted to David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health IT, the group asked that the government abandon an “all or nothing” approach and allow providers to defer up to five measures from 2011 to 2013.
However, the group said certain measures should remain mandatory, such as e-prescribing and computerized order entry.
(CMS is accepting public comment on the meaningful use rules through mid-March and is expected to publish its final rule in late spring.)
What do you think? Is the criteria currently far too complex?
Asset Protection and Financial Planning
December 6th 2021Asset protection attorney and regular Physicians Practice contributor Ike Devji and Anthony Williams, an investment advisor representative and the founder and president of Mosaic Financial Associates, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on high-earner assets and financial planning, impending tax changes, common asset protection and wealth preservation mistakes high earners make, and more.
How to reduce surprise billing in your practice
November 15th 2021Physicians Practice® spoke with Kristina Hutson, a product line developer at Availity, about surprise billing events in independent healthcare practices and what owners and administrators can do to reduce the likelihood of their occurrence.
