On Jan. 11, the first day of J.P. Morgan’s 34th Annual Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt said, “The Meaningful ...

Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens Jan. 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. Eligible professionals, eligible ...

The move from meaningful use to the value-based payment world of MACRA, MIPS, and the APMs is coming into focus. Meaningful use as we knew it changed on April 14, 2015. And what it's becoming is still ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) set aside nearly $20 billion in federal incentive payments to healthcare providers and organizations who adopt electronic health record (EHR) ...

The EHR Incentive Program, often dubbed “Meaningful Use”, has been surrounded by questions and confusion among anesthesiologists and practice administrators since its inception. Currently, the ...

The new Stage 3 meaningful use rules proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seek to give providers more flexibility, simplify the program, drive interoperability among electronic ...

The strict rules of the Meaningful Use (MU) program are preventing physicians from participating, according to the American Medical Association, which is calling for more flexibility and some relief ...

The American Medical Association has asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to pause its meaningful use program, due to the risk it places on a health system's ability to carry out new models of ...

In a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, four Senate Republicans expressed concern over issues related to the adoption of electronic health records through CMS and ONC’s meaningful use program ...