New Wave of Meaningful Use Audits Launched by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Most of us have gotten pretty used to the Meaningful Use (MU) audits being conducted by Figliozzi & Company. They are the folks that have been conducting the CMS EHR Incentive audits for both eligible hospitals (EH) and professionals (EP) […]
Ah, the life of a hospital CIO. Sometimes everything just falls into place. It doesn’t matter if you work for a 40 bed rural Critical Access Hospital (CAH) or a 700 bed critical care center in an urban center, the satisfaction can be the same. All the details of your CMS EHR incentive attestation were […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
A Proactive Approach to Meaningful Use Audits – Part II I trust my post last week directed to Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) was convincing on the need to conduct mock audits on their CMS EHR Incentive attestations. There is simply too much at stake. I have seen enough failed audits and […]
A Proactive Approach to Meaningful Use Audits Well, you could wait and play the odds and hope you are one of the hospitals that doesn’t get audited for those CMS EHR Incentive attestations that brought in seven figure incentives. This is what most Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (s) are doing. You could […]
Majority of Failed Audits Tied to MU Measures and Security Risk Analysis Last week found me in Orlando at the annual HIMSS conference sniffing out any information and news related to the CMS EHR Incentives programs and those pesky audits. Some of what I discovered is based on officially announced policy but there have also […]
CMS Offers EHs Meaningful Use Attestation Assistance My grandfather, raised in the red hills of North Georgia, used to call it “getting caught with your pants up”. I saw the same thing in the first Hunger Games movie when those little surprise parachutes would float down with food and medicine. I like those little parachutes, […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Indictment Issued for False Statements to CMS and Aggravated Identity Theft It was just a matter of time before the CMS EHR Incentive audit process uncovered alleged actions so severe that there was nothing left to do but issue Federal criminal indictments. I’ve been waiting for some time for the first report of this type […]
Whether you are an Eligible Hospital (EH) or Eligible Professional (EP) receiving a “negative determination” at the conclusion of a Meaningful Use incentive audit can definitely raise your anxiety level. A pre-payment audit failed is bad enough but a post-payment failure can lead to sleepless nights. The Federal Government is telling you that they want […]
When it rains it pours. In West Africa it is called the monsoon. In Costa Rica it is the green season. Growing up in Georgia we just called it a gully washer. Whatever you call it, there seems to be a virtual storm of meaningful use (MU) eligible hospital (EH) audits popping up all over […]