CMS Newsflash: 2016 Compensation Changes for EPs & Hardship Exception Application Cutoff Date

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CMS Newsflash: 2016 Compensation Changes for EPs & Hardship Exception Application Cutoff Date

Post by Gavin Walker » Wed May 27, 2015 2:22 pm

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) just proclaimed 2016 compensation changes for Eligible Providers (EP) that did not effectively partake in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program in 2014. The statements likewise conveys a Hardship Exception Application cutoff date of July 1, 2015, for EPs who did not effective partake in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program in 2014.

Please study the CMS statement and appreciate that it is the EP’s duty to report the adversity. To report a Hardship Exception Application, the condition should be outside the EP’s power and the EP should clearly delineate how the condition drastically reduced the EP’s capacity to sustain meaningful use.

Note: In section 3 of the hardship application, CMS necessitates that EPs deliver reinforcing documents of the adversity and keep that documentation.

Please phone CMS with any queries or for extra info about compensation changes and/or the Hardship Exception Application Request Cutoff Date.

The Hardship Exception applications and guidelines for single and for several Medicare EPs are obtainable on the EHR Incentive Programs website, and delineate the exact kinds of conditions that CMS thinks to be barricades to attaining meaningful use, and how to request the hardship.
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Re: CMS Newsflash: 2016 Compensation Changes for EPs & Hardship Exception Application Cutoff Date

Post by Gavin Walker » Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:05 pm

You will present this request if you did not effectively partake in the Medicare EHR Incentive plan in 2014. The request should be presented by electronic means or postmarked no later than 10:59 p.m. CT on July 1, 2015 to be considered.
In a Q&A meeting lately, CMS alleged that you do not have to present any papers to demand the exclusion for being incapable to upgrade to 2014 Version software. You must, nevertheless, save papers of the subject in your records, in case you are reviewed.

Please notice: This is an explanation fact for the initial statement.
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