Electronic Health Records (EHRs) - Meaningful Use
Press Release
Statement on Final FY 2018 IPPS Rule
Tom Nickels
Executive Vice President
American Hospital Association
August 2, 2017
Inpatient prospective payment system hospitals and eligible professionals who did not achieve meaningful use in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2016 reporting period can apply through July 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET for a hardship exception from the 2018 payment adjustment.…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services inappropriately paid $729.4 million in Medicare electronic health record incentive payments to eligible professionals who did not meet meaningful use requirements, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General estimated in…
An electronic health records software vendor and certain of its employees will pay a total of $155 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that the organization misrepresented the capabilities of its software, the Department of Justice announced yesterday. The settlement also…
Proposed Rule: Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and The Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Proposed Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2018 Rates and Other Issues
CMS published its fiscal year 2018 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment systems on April 14.
Members-only Webinar
Held April 28, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted a “centralized repository” of public health agencies and registries ready to electronically receive public health data from hospitals and eligible professionals.