New EHR law offers providers and CMS some flexibility

Modern Healthcare (complimentary online subscription):  bill signed into law last month gave the CMS, hospitals, physicians and other eligible professionals, more flexibility in filing and processing exemptions from the meaningful-use requirements of the federal EHR incentive payment program.A provision of the Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act aims to “ensure flexibility in applying the hardship exception for meaningful use for the 2015 EHR reporting period,” which would affect Medicare payment penalties in 2017.

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