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Unlocking Meaningful Use with NBW Consultants
Meaningful use involves leveraging certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology to achieve several crucial objectives:
- Improve Quality, Safety, and Efficiency: Enhance healthcare delivery and reduce health disparities.
- Engage Patients and Their Families: Actively involve patients and their families in their healthcare.
- Enhance Care Coordination and Public Health: Improve care coordination, population health, and public health initiatives.
- Ensure Privacy and Security: Maintain the privacy and security of patient health information.
The Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs offer financial incentives to encourage the meaningful use of certified EHR technology. To qualify for an EHR incentive payment, providers must demonstrate meaningful use by meeting specific measurement thresholds. These criteria range from recording patient information as structured data to exchanging summary care records. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has set these thresholds for eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals.
EHR Incentive Programs Structure
The EHR Incentive Programs consist of three stages with increasing requirements:
- Stage 1: Providers start by meeting Stage 1 requirements for a 90-day period in their first year of meaningful use and a full year in their second year.
- Stage 2: Providers then progress to meet Stage 2 requirements for two full years.
- Stage 3: Recently introduced by CMS, Stage 3 emphasizes advanced EHR technology use to promote health information exchange and improved patient outcomes.
Eligible professionals participate in the program on a calendar year basis, while eligible hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) follow the Federal fiscal year. The proposed Stage 3 rule suggests changing the EHR reporting period to align all providers under a full calendar year timeline.
NBW Consultants is here to help you navigate these requirements and achieve meaningful use, ensuring you maximize your EHR incentive payments while enhancing the overall quality of care.
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