AMA's Long-Awaited Call For End To 'Meaningful Use' #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

AMA's Long-Awaited Call For End To 'Meaningful Use' Penalties Would Just Entrench The Status Quo In Healthcare



After years of delay, the American Medical Association (unofficial motto: “Ruthlessly Defending the Status Quo Since 1847″) finally did last week what everybody knew was inevitable. The AMA officially adopted a policy calling on the federal government to do away with the impending Medicare penalties for failing to achieve “Meaningful Use” of electronic health records.



Any hospital or individual “eligible professionals” — including all U.S. physicians that participate  in Medicare — that didn’t get to at least Stage 1 of the Meaningful Use EHR incentive program by the end of last year faces a 1 percent reduction in Medicare payments starting Jan. 1. That noncompliance penalty gradually increases each year until it reaches 5 percent in 2019, though the reduction is capped at 3 percent from 2017 on if more than 75 percent of eligible professionals nationwide have achieved Meaningful Use.



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