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Maintaining Criteria for CMS Incentives
[By Anonymous Doctor]
If you qualified for year one … you qualified for year one. Deposit the check and pat yourself on the back. I too worked myself ragged, added a couple of hours to my charting each day … and collected $18,000 for 90 days (actually 6 months) of added stress.
But, I have opted NOT TO continue into year 2 … as $1,000 per month for 365 straight days of compliance is too much to bear. There is no mandatory need to comply until 2015.
I plan to use my software, comply as much as possible, not pull my hair out until 2015 when we have to be 100% compliant, 100% of the time. I know there are those with big staffs, and big overhead who will disagree, and have their assistants do all the charting.
For those of us in solo practice struggling to make ends meet, this burden is NOT WORTH carrying into year #2.
Source: Ann Miller RN MHA
via Name Withheld (FL)
PM Mews #4,382
Assessment
This story was originally a “comment”, but it has been re-published as a “post”, to illustrate the dichotomy between medical practitioners using eHRs and salesfolks recommending and selling them based on the government rebate feature rather than true market competition, efficiency and innovation.
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