tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2016 Issue 4

Electronic Health Records: Your EHR Hardship-Exception Application Process Just Got Easier

New law also toughens penalties for Medicare/Medicaid identity theft. Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is clearly planning to do away with the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program altogether, other releases from CMS seem to indicate business as usual for the program. Good news: On Jan. 22, CMS launched a streamlined hardship application process to reduce the amount of information that participants must submit to apply for an exception. CMS released new applications and instructions for a hardship exception from the Medicare EHR Incentive Program 2017 payment adjustment. The new streamlined process comes about from...

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