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Medicare and Medicaid Programs - Electronic Health Record Incentive Program - Stage 3 and Modifications to Meaningful Use in 2015 through 2017 CMS-3 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library

Medicare and Medicaid Programs - Electronic Health Record Incentive Program - Stage 3 and Modifications to Meaningful Use in 2015 through 2017 CMS-3 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare and Medicaid Programs - Electronic Health Record Incentive Program - Stage 3 and Modifications to Meaningful Use in 2015 through 2017 CMS-3 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule with comment period specifies the requirements that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet in order to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments and avoid downward payment adjustments under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. In addition, it changes the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs reporting period in 2015 to a 90-day period aligned with the calendar year. This final rule with comment period also removes reporting requirements on measures that have become redundant, duplicative, or topped out from the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. In addition, this final rule with comment period establishes the requirements for Stage 3 of the program as optional in 2017 and required for all participants beginning in 2018. The final rule with comment period continues to encourage the electronic submission of clinical quality measure (CQM) data, establishes requirements to transition the program to a single stage, and aligns reporting for providers in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare and Medicaid Programs - Electronic Health Record Incentive Program - Stage 3 and Modifications to Meaningful Use in 2015 through 2017 CMS-3 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section