Tag: MU
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CMS Rebrands Meaningful Use to Highlight New Changes
As part of the annual Medicare payment update proposal, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid along with the Trump Administration plan to rebrand Meaningful Use to reduce burdens and unnecessary regulations while emphasizing data sharing across providers. The new Meaningful Use program, now called “Promoting Interoperability,” aims to reduce reporting measures and initiate a stronger push…
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Medical Association’s 2018 State and Federal Agendas
The Medical Association Board of Censors has met and approved the Association’s 2018 State and Federal Agendas. These agendas were developed with guidance from the House of Delegates and input from individual physicians. As the Alabama Legislature and U.S. Congress begin their work for 2018, additional items affecting physicians, medical practices and patients may be…
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Meaningful Use and the Costs of Noncompliance
It is something of an understatement to note that the U.S. health care legal landscape is currently experiencing a degree of transition and uncertainty. There is no shortage of changes to discuss, debate, and, perhaps, grow apprehensive about. One development that has been the radar of many physicians for several years now – and brought…
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Medical Association Urges CMS to Reduce EHR and MU Burden on Physicians
The Medical Association has joined forces with the American Medical Association, Medical Group Management Association and 85 other medical groups to urge Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reduce electronic health record and meaningful use requirements on physicians. In a letter to new CMS Administrator Seema Verma, the groups first welcomed the new administration’s…
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Five Secrets to Preventing Provider Cardiac Arrest Secondary to Meaningful Use 2 — There’s a Diagnosis Code for This!
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the 2015 Inaugural Issue of Alabama Medicine magazine Kill two or three measures with one click. Clinical Decision Support Rules, PQRS and Clinical Quality Measures can be managed simultaneously. Here’s an example of what I mean: Meaningful Use 2 requires the smoking status of all patients 13 years…