Meaningful Use
Eagle provides regular articles about Meaningful use and updates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). We also provide analysis, recommendations, and links to supporting documents to help our clients stay up on rules and requirements, including the Objectives and Measures for Meaningful Use — 2015-2017 — you can download at right (PDF).
The Meaningful Use program will fragment on 1/1/2017. Physicians who participate in the Medicare version of Meaningful Use will instead participate in the “Advancing Care Information” component of the MIPS Program. The existing Meaningful Use rules and programs will continue for hospitals and physician practices who participate under the Medicaid Meaningful Use program.
by Gary Pritts | Oct 7, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, General News
Medicare Payment Adjustments will produce significant, long-term financial loss for physicians who do not participate in Meaningful Use As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Congress mandated payment adjustments be applied to Medicare... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 30, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
(Editor’s Note: For the Stage 2 Rules effective 10/16/2015, the Privacy and Security Objective is now Objective #1) Eagle Consulting Partners is working with three clients, participants in the Medicare Meaningful Use program, to assist them with responses to... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 12, 2014 | HIPAA
Conducting a meaningful use security risk assessment has been a requirement for HIPAA Covered entities since 2005, and now their business associates must also comply. The Meaningful Use program (Stage 1) also includes the requirement: “Conduct or review a... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Mar 7, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
Several officials from CMS spoke at HIMSS 2014 in Orlando regarding meaningful use audits. Approximately 5% of both physician and hospital providers are being audited, and these audits are split about 50/50 between post-payment and pre-payment audits. “Document,... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Mar 4, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
Eagle Consulting, Inc. has worked with healthcare providers who have failed meaningful use audits in the last two years. In each of these cases, the providers contacted us after the auditors found that they had not completed a legitimate risk analysis as required by... Read More
