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House Members Push for Stage 3 Delay in Letter to HHS, OMB

Healthcare Informatics: Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC) and 115 other members of the House have written and signed a letter urging Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) administrators to delay the final rulemaking for Stage 3 of the meaningful use program.

This letter, led by Ellmers, Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA), and David Scott (D-GA) is the latest push from Congress to delay Stage 3. Recently, during a Senate hearing, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Chairman of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, once again pushed for a delay himself, citing the need to push back the making of a final rule until Jan. 1, 2017 due to physicians telling him they are “terrified” of the impending stage of the program.

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