Meaningful Use Stage 3
A few important notes on the following high level summary and initial impressions.
Meaningful use stage 3. Read the full ama letter here and keep an eye out for what s next in meaningful use stage 3. The meaningful use program is entering stage 3 which is focused on promoting interoperability of electronic health record systems. To meet stage 3 requirements all providers must use technology certified to the 2015 edition.
This is only a proposed rule. A significant aspect of this is requiring more. Use our free ehr comparison tool to find.
Ehr users can earn various incentive payments by meeting the criteria for three stages of meaningful use over the coming years. Stage 3 meaningful use finalized objectives and measures message sent by the patient or the authorized representative. Returning hospitals must successfully attest to avoid the medicare payment adjustment.
Hospitals and eps in their first year of mu will no longer be required to use the 90 day reporting option instead shifting to the 365 day reporting period. Stage 3 meaningful use timeline. Patient generated health data or data from a non clinical setting is incorporated into the certified ehr technology for more than 5 of all unique patients seen by the ep or.
Here is what your practice needs to know. The reporting period for quality reporting will shift to 365 days. Providing your input in defining meaningful use stage 3 is important and will hopefully result in useful achievable requirements.
All providers who have not successfully demonstrated meaningful use in a prior year and are seeking to demonstrate meaningful use for the first time in 2017 to avoid the 2018 payment adjustment must attest to modified stage 2 objectives and measures. The centers for medicare medicaid services and the office of the national coordinator for health it published the final rule on meaningful use stage 3 on october 6 2015 despite the requirements set by stage 3 there are important upcoming changes through a new law called macra or the medicare access. Meaningful use stage 3 is the third phase of the meaningful use ehr incentive program.