MobiHealth News November 6, 2017
As the Quality Payment Program enters its second year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued its 1,653-page final rule on Nov. 2, with an array of implications for the ways physician practices use information technology in 2018.
Among the biggest provisions is to allow doctors to use either 2014 or 2015 Edition certified electronic health record technology in Year 2 of the program – but gives a 10 percent bonus to those practices that make the leap to using only 2015 edition CEHRT.
CMS also included an interim final rule allowing for a hardship exception aimed at small practices and clinicians whose EHR use has been impacted by “extreme and uncontrollable circumstances” such as the recent hurricanes Harvey,...
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