Meaningful use

Financial Incentives for Eligible Professionals and HospitalsMeaningful useMeaningful use

• Totals for Medicare professionals: $44,000• Totals for Medicaid professionals: $63,750

• Medicare & Medicaid hospital beginning payments: $2 million

EHR Incentive payments by programEHR Incentive payments by program

• Sunset for Medicare program 2016

• Sunset for Medicaid program 2021

Main Components of Meaningful Use

Meaningful Use Criteria Staging

First Stage 2011 and 2012

25 meaningful use objectives

Eligible professionals

To qualify for an incentive payment, 20 of these 25 must be met.

15 are required core objectives.

The remaining 5 objectives may be chosen from the list of 10 menu set objectives.

First Stage 2011 and 2012

24 meaningful use objectives

Eligible hospitals

To qualify for an incentive payment, 19 of these 24 must be met.

14 are required core objectives.

The remaining 5 objectives may be chosen from the list of 10 menu set objectives.

First Stage 2011 and 2012

44 clinical quality measures

Eligible professionals

To qualify for an incentive payment EPs must report on 6 total CQM

3 required core measures (substituting alternate core measures where necessary) and 3 additional measures (selected from a set of 38 clinical quality measures).

First Stage 2011 and 2012

15 clinical quality measures

Eligible hospitals

Must report on all 15 of their clinical quality measures.

• Some of the requirements also have exclusions that can be applied to certain eligible professionals and hospitals depending on their patient base. For instance some specialists would not report on immunization status.

• This is considered a legal contract stating that the individual or hospital has fulfilled all requirements to meet meaningful use. This process differs for Medicaid and Medicare incentive programs.

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