Health Affairs January 14, 2016
With the release of the final rule for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use (MU) of health information technology (IT), and modifications to Stage 2 of MU for 2015 – 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken the unusual step of asking for a second round of comments on Stage 3. Their rationale: their first request for comments was made prior to the passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
This post draws from this second round of comments submitted in December 2015, on behalf of the American College of Physicians. We argue that, rather than tinkering around the edges, CMS should completely reconceptualize the program. A new MU program should focus...
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