Healthcare IT News August 13, 2015
‘It boils down to usability and interoperability … Let’s finish those and make sure they are working really well before we build something new.’
Can the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System and meaningful usestage 3 co-exist? Or will they essentially cripple providers?
We’ll find out. But at this point there’s little evidence to suggest it will be simple or straightforward.
Meaningful use stage 3, with an entire saga of its own, is part of the HITECH Act passed in 2009 to incentivize electronic health record adoption. The more recently adopted MIPS is part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) passed last March to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) method of reimbursing Medicarephysicians, begun in...
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