More Health Providers Sign Up for Meaningful Use Incentive Program
More than 21,000 health care providers have registered to participate in the electronic health record meaningful use program, Government Health IT reports.
About two-thirds of this group will be ready to prove they have met meaningful use ehr criteria when CMS launches attestation modules this spring.
Background
Under the 2009 economic stimulus package, health care providers who demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHRs can qualify for Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments (Mosquera, Government Health IT, 2/22).
Medicaid already has paid out more than $20 million in incentive payments (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 2/23). The first Medicare incentive payments will be issued in May.
Current Numbers
The latest figures for participating health care providers were counted at the end of January. CMS officials cited steady increases in the number of registrants.
Attestation Modules
CMS will launch its attestation module through its website in April, according to Elizabeth Holland, director of health IT initiatives in the CMS Office of eHealth Standards and Services.
A separate test module will aid health care providers in measuring meaningful use readiness if they are not formally ready to attest (Government Health IT, 2/22).
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