Meaningful Use Special Edition Newsletter
Welcome to the Montana/Wyoming Health Technology Service's Meaningful Use Special Edition Newsletter.
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Eligible Providers - Urgent! Take Action Now For Your Second Year of Meaningful Use
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Congratulations on achieving MU for your first 90-day reporting period!
Now that your eligible professionals (EPs) have attested to 90 days of Meaningful Use in 2012, they will need to meet all 14 core objectives, 5 menu objectives and 6 clinical quality measures for the full year of 2013.
For MU 2013, there are some tasks you will want to address IMMEDIATELY -
- MU auditors are requesting that the "yes/no" objectives be documented for the entire year (January - December). You should IMMEDIATELY take a screen shot (or other system generated documentation) which includes the current date of the following:
- Drug/Drug, Drug Allergy rule
- Your chosen clinical decision support rule(s)
- Drug formulary (if you have chosen this menu item)
- There are changes to MU Stage 2 for 2013. Review the new requirements CMS MU Stage 1 Changes Tipsheet
- Montana Medicaid has changed their eligibility requirements. Please read the details MT Medicaid eligibility requirement changes (Wyoming Medicaid eligibility remains the same.)
- Review your Menu Objective selections and make sure your staff is aware of which 5 you will choose and that workflows are in place accordingly.
- Starting in 2014 the rules have changed regarding exclusion on menu objectives. Please read more CMS MU Stage 1 Changes Tipsheet
To assist you with your second year of MU, please see a complete list of tasks you need to perform for your second year of MU - MU Year 2 Procedure
Please let us help you with your attestation needs.
Please contact your HTS REC Health Technology Consultant
or Patty Kosednar 406-461-4410
You can also visit our website
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Are You Busy and Need Help with MU Year 2? |
If you need help in continuing to understand and meet the needed requirements and obligations of Stage 1 for your second year, Health Technology Services offers ongoing MU Stage 1, Year 2 assistance.
We can help you with -
- Eligibility review for both Medicare and Medicaid incentive programs
- NLR/SLR registration
- Meaningful Use stage transition education (some Stage 1 objectives have changed!!!)
- Periodic monitoring of MU objective/CQM data and provide remediation recommendations
- Management of the activity based MU objectives (reports, HIE, registry submission, etc.)
- MU Audit documentation and preparedness
- Attestation assistance
- MU Stage 2 preparation
Please let us help you with your registration and attestation needs.
Please contact your HTS REC Health Technology Consultant
or Patty Kosednar 406-461-4410
You can also visit our website
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Meaningful Use Resources (Links)
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NLR Registration/Attestion
Register or Attest for Medicare and/or Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.
CMS EHR Incentive Programs
Learn the basics about the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.
EP Stage 1 vs. Stage 2
MU Stage 1 vs. Stage 2 comparison of Core and Menu objectives for Eligible Providers.
CAH Stage 1 vs. Stage
MU Stage 2 vs. Stage comparison of Core and Menu objectives for Critical Access Hospitals.
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