Healthcare IT Today July 17, 2019
The following is a guest blog post by Jim Tate, Founder of EMR Advocate & MIPS Consulting.
Just as the Meaningful Use (MU) EHR Incentive program brought potential audits to providers, so it will be with the MIPS program. Both programs were enacted by Federal legislation, and while there are differences, they are also similarities.
The MU program contained EHR incentives for both Medicare and Medicaid defined providers. For Medicare eligible providers (EP) there was a sole CMS contractor responsible for all audits and appeals. The Medicaid audits and appeals were handled at the state level by a number of different entities. If an EP failed an audit, and it was truly a pass/fail system, the received incentive was recouped...
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