Summary on Meaningful Use for HITECH Incentive Funds

Official posting projected to be in the Federal Register 7/28/10 will start the clock for rules to be in effect 60 days later

Meaningful Use is now defined as 2 sets of objectives and measures (see images below)

–        Core Set with mandatory 15 objectives and measures and,

–         Menu Set select 5 of 10 objectives and measures

•          All EPs and hospitals must choose at least one of the population and public health measures to demonstrate as part of the menu set

•          “This is the only limitation placed on which five objectives can be deferred from the menu set”

All Hospitals – must report 15 Quality Measures

–        2 Emergency Department Throughput 

–        7 Ischemic stroke 

–        6 Deep Vein Thrombosis 

–        Same requirement regardless if Medicare, Medicaid, CAH

–        Alternate measures for Children’s Hospitals

–        Eligible Professionals – 6 Quality Measures

–        3  mandatory “Core” Quality Measures

•          Hypertension, Tobacco Use/Cessation, Adult Weight Screening

•          Alternate Core: Weight Assessment/Counseling Children, Influenza Immunization > 50 years

–        Select 3 more from list of 41 Quality Measures

This website was created to track incentive payments http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

For 2011 only

–        Hospitals and eligible providers can start demonstrating meaningful use in Jan 2011

–        First incentive payments distributed around May 2011

–        CMS anticipates will take up to 45 days to process the incentive after the attestation of meaningful use.

All eligible hospitals and Medicare eligible professionals must have:

–        National Provider Identifier (NPI)

–        Be enrolled in the CMS Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) to participate in the EHR incentive program

–        Most providers also need to have an active user account in the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES).

–        CMS will use these systems’ records to register for the program and verify Medicare enrollment prior to making Medicare EHR incentive program payments.

THESE BELOW GRAPHICS SHOW THE CURRENT FINAL MEASURE COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS MEASURE ON THE RIGHT