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