A Welcome Extension, For Most
After months of physicians, hospitals and IT groups calling for more time to complete Meaningful Use, the federal government responded. Although not everyone is pleased.
On Friday, Dec. 6, hours before the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator announced the new timeline, two stakeholders speaking at a CMS eHealth conference made the case for an extension. Whether or not they knew of the pending change, they may be breathing a sigh of relief now, on behalf of their customers and members.
One concern, said Robert Tennant, a senior policy advisory at the Medical Group Management Association, is that “Everything is happening at the same time” – ICD-10, Medicaid expansion, insurance exchange, ACOs and value-based pilots, and Meaningful Use.
“We need to evaluable the first two stages,” Tennant said of designing the policy for Meaningful Use stage 3.
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- Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
- electronic health records (EHRs)
- health information technology (HIT)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- healthcare
- ICD-10
- interoperability
- Meaningful Use (MU)
- Medicaid expansion
- Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
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