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Meaningful Use: Payments, Incentives, and Penalties
Here are some charts to help you plot out the stages of meaningful use at your practice and payments for both the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.
CMS proposes that the Stage 2 requirements begin in 2014, meaning that the Stage 1 rules are in place until then. No matter when your practice starts its efforts to attest to meaningful use, you will remain in Stage 1 for a two-year period.
Here's a chart to help you navigate your course:
Here's the payment (and penalty) breakdown for the Medicare and Medicaid programs:
(Chart information courtesy of the American Medical Association / CMS)
Asset Protection and Financial Planning
December 6th 2021Asset protection attorney and regular Physicians Practice contributor Ike Devji and Anthony Williams, an investment advisor representative and the founder and president of Mosaic Financial Associates, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on high-earner assets and financial planning, impending tax changes, common asset protection and wealth preservation mistakes high earners make, and more.
How to reduce surprise billing in your practice
November 15th 2021Physicians Practice® spoke with Kristina Hutson, a product line developer at Availity, about surprise billing events in independent healthcare practices and what owners and administrators can do to reduce the likelihood of their occurrence.
