Medicare ‘meaningful use’ data to be submitted via QualityNet

Editor's Note

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced August 7 that hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in  Medicare’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program will submit their “meaningful use” data via QualityNet rather than the EHR Incentive Program Registration and Attestation System beginning January 2, 2018, according to AHA News Now.

The EHR system will be available for Medicaid-only hospitals. Hospitals attesting for both Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs should submit data for the Medicare program in the QualityNet system and contact state Medicaid agencies to submit Medicaid data.

Beginning Jan. 2, 2018, hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program will submit their meani...