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GAO: CMS could be doing more under EHR program

Chiropractic Economics May 21, 2012

May 21, 2012 — The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could be doing more to ensure its incentive payments under the electronic health record (EHR) program are proper and legitimate.

CMS has paid more than $3.1 billion to providers in incentive payments since the Medicare and Medicaid EHR program began in 2011. Providers are eligible for payments if they adopt EHR technology and use it in a meaningful way. But to receive the payments, providers must meet eligibility requirements and report certain information to CMS.

In its report – entitled First Year of CMS’s Incentive Programs Shows Opportunities to Improve Processes to Verify Providers Met Requirements – GAO recommended, among other things, ways for CMS to improve integrity of Medicaid EHR incentive payments.

The report suggests that CMS conduct prepayment verifications rather than post-payment audits. This would allow CMS to avoid the “pay and chase” involved with recovering improper payments.

As for the Medicaid EHR program, GAO encouraged CMS to offer states the option of having CMS collect meaningful use attestations from Medicaid providers on the states’ behalf.

 

Read the full report here.

 

Source: JR Supra

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