In the first stage of CMS’ three proposed stages for complying with meaningful use criteria, hospitals would have to meet 23 functionality requirements and prove that they are using IT systems to report on a set of clinical quality measures. CMS still needs to define specific requirements for stages 2 and 3.
Specifically, HANYS says:
1. Proposed definitions of eligible providers would exclude about 30 percent of physicians from the incentive program because they are hospital-based.
2. A hospital would be identified by its Medicare Provider Number, preventing individual campuses from receiving separate HIT incentive payments.
Read Hospital Association of New York State’s release on Healthcare IT incentive funding.
Read our original brief on the new meaningful use rules.
