Modern Healthcare June 20, 2017
Although the CMS today proposed giving physicians a yearlong reprieve before having to upgrade their certified electronic health record system, hospitals may still be on the hook.
The agency today proposed easing some requirements for physicians under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, including allowing them to continue using the 2014 certified version of their EHR. The proposal only applies to physicians. Under meaningful use requirements, hospitals must have a 2015 certified product in place by the end of this year in order to submit reporting data by March 31, 2018. Failure to do so would result in Medicare penalties.
But there’s a catch: Vendors aren’t ready, which means hospitals will be under a time crunch to deploy a...
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