On Feb. 23, 2012, CMS released its proposed rule for Stage 2 requirements for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. The Stage 2 rule included criteria eligible ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued a proposed rule that will make it more difficult than ever for anesthesiologists and pain physicians to qualify for the Medicare or ...

In August, federal officials released the final Stage 2 rule for Meaningful Use. The second stage calls for hospitals, physicians, and other 'eligible providers' to increase interoperability of health ...

(1) Discussion of Whether Certain EPs, Eligible Hospitals or CAHs can meet all Stage 2 Meaningful Use Objectives Given Established Scopes of Practice (2) EPs Practicing in Multiple Practices/Locations ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

Stage 2 of the federal Electronic Health Records Incentive Program is underway for providers who first reached Stage 1 in 2011. Although there will not be any official statistics available for several ...

The notice of proposed rulemaking for stage 3 meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) was announced today by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for ...

An advisory panel that is shaping measures for the next stage of meaningful use has suggested delaying stage 2 by one year until 2014 as an option to allow vendors and healthcare providers more time ...

Health care providers must demonstrate “meaningful use” of EHRs to qualify for incentives. A federal health information technology committee this week released its proposed rules for Stage 3 ...

Stage 2 follows most of the existing Stage 1 core and menu objectives while adding new objectives for patient access to health information and increasing expectations for health information exchange ...