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Meaningful Use Hardship Exception: A Late Christmas Gift?

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
December 28, 2015 Leave a Comment

Santa delivering late gift

The week after Christmas is always a hard one. There’s a reason why the term “post-holiday blues” is now a recognized phenomenon. One day you are unwrapping gifts and sipping on egg nog without a care … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meaningful Use Tagged With: American Medical Association, CMS, Diana Strubler, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Hardship Exemption, Meaningful Use Stage 2, modified stage 2 final rule, Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act, President Obama, Rob Portman, Tom Price

Meaningful Use in 2015: The 8 Things You Should Do Before the Year’s End

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
November 16, 2015 Leave a Comment

Time is running out clock

It’s been three months since my last blog post and a lot has changed! While I was off enjoying my newborn daughter, CMS released the much anticipated final rule for stage 2 modifications in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use - Stage 2 Tagged With: CMS, CPOE, CQM, Diana Strubler, HHS, HIE, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Hardship Exemption, Meaningful Use Stage 2, NQS, OCR, OGC, stage 2 modifications, Terry Ketchersid

Meaningful Use Audits: The Injustice of It All

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
August 31, 2015 Leave a Comment

Justice scales being erased

Tomorrow is the first day of September and everyone reading this blog knows what that means…we are one month away from the ICD-10 transition! I don’t want to wear you out with that announcement, but I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use Audits Tagged With: Acumen EHR, CMS, Flex-IT 2 Act, Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act, H.R. 3309, HIPAA, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Hardship Exemption, Meaningful Use Stage 2, Meaningful Use Stage 3, MU Audit, MU hardship exemption, security risk analysis, Steve Spearman, Terry Ketchersid

The Meaningful Use Hardship Exception: To File or Not to File?

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
June 22, 2015 19 Comments

Meaningful Use hardship exemption application

Well, folks, the summer solstice has passed and the days are becoming imperceptibly shorter. In Southside Virginia the dog days of summer are upon us, and it is hot, really hot. The month of July is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use - 50% Rule Tagged With: 50% Rule, EHR, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Hardship Exemption, MU hardship exemption, outpatient encounters, Terry Ketchersid

The CMS Triple Threat

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
January 12, 2015 Leave a Comment

Contemplating my first post of the New Year, I found myself viewing a picture hanging on the wall in our home. The artist is not well known, but he is remarkably talented. As a result of an accident … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, CMS Incentive Programs Tagged With: Bad Hombres, Clayton Turner, CMS, Meaningful Use Hardship Exemption, PQRS, Stuart Scott, Terry Ketchersid, Triple Threat, value-based payment modifier, VM

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