In a June 11 letter to state Medicaid directors, CMS shared a guidance on how the programs could better use federal funds to combat the opioid crisis through health IT. The Health Information ...

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 ...

Is that an audit in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? We knew they would be coming. We just weren’t sure how and when audits related to the CMS EHR Incentive Programs would first appear.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released eight new answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) to keep providers informed about the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record ...

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 ...

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 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has pushed back a looming deadline for EHR certification, allowing hospitals to delay system upgrades and reducing meaningful use attestation ...

In the drive for adoption of electronic health records, the post-acute sector has been overlooked. That’s slowly changing as the CMS begins to shift its attention that way. As part of its long-awaited ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists has submitted comments to CMS regarding proposed rules on EHR meaningful use and CMS’ EHR incentive program, according to a release by the ASA. In its ...

For 2018 and beyond, hospitals are required to submit their meaningful use data through the QualityNet Secure Portal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services affirmed this month. Reporting ...

CMS Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced a broad array of initiatives to speed interoperability among EHRs and PHRs as well as increase patient access to records, including a revamped ...