CMS expects to penalize 50% of physicians in EHR program in 2015

The Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) is encouraging physicians who have received a payment as a result of participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentives Program to contact their EHR or HIPAA solution vendors to confirm that they are meeting the program's "meaningful use" requirements in full.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reported that it had paid $25 billion in incentives to more than 500,000 providers as of December 1, 2014. But CMS also predicts that more than 250,000 providers will be penalized in 2015 for failing to fulfill the meaningful use requirements.

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