Caution - CMS Begins Random Meaningful Use Audits

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun random audits on providers that have received payments under the EHR incentive program. If your clinic is selected for audit a letter will be sent to you requesting specific information that you will need to provide to the auditor. A provider will be given two weeks to comply with the information requested in the audit.

CMS has implemented automatic checks using its databases. This is a very streamlined way to verify the information submitted by providers and perform an audit with a sampling of eligible professionals. Based upon feedback on the random audits, it appears the audits will be completed via US mail and will “not” include onsite visits. The focus of the audits will be in fact gathering to prove the provider has met “meaningful use”.

• Supporting documentation for the completion of the attestation regarding the core set objectives and measures
• Supporting documentation for the completion of the attestation regarding the menu set objectives and measures
• A copy of the provider's certification from the Office of the National Coordinator for the technology used to meet the program's requirements, to show that the provider has a certified EHR system
• A copy of the invoice or purchase order from the Certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) Company MD Logic, the leading U.S. provider of High Performance Electronic Health Records Solutions stands ready to assist any MD Logic customer that is audited by CMS.

Tom Cahill, Manager of Software Support Services for MD Logic, explained “it was just a matter of time before CMS began to audit providers to ensure these providers have met the requirements for “meaningful use”. The MD Logic software provides a superior EHR and efficiently gathers all the information required to meet “meaningful use”. We have a great team of support people that will work with our customers to ensure they comply with any audit.”

MD Logic will be offering a course during the November 8th and 9th MD Logic User Conference in Atlanta to review the steps that should be followed in the event your clinic is audited. Thomas J. Bierster, Jr., CEO of MD Logic, Inc., stated “the Federal Government has spent billions of dollars on “meaningful use” and wants to ensure these dollars were invested wisely. With Meaningful Use Stage I, the great majority of EHR vendors simply don’t have an efficient solution for capturing data through their EHR. As a result, the majority of doctors using these slow and inefficient EHR systems still dictate. These clinics are required to hire additional staff to review the dictated notes and then spend countless hours adding the data from the dictated notes into the electronic health record for each patient. All of this is in an effort to comply with "meaningful use". With MD Logic, the meaningful use data is captured “real time” during the patient visit."

CMS is required to conduct audits of providers attesting under the EHR incentive program. At this time only general information regarding audits has been posted on the CMS website.

If you are interested in learning more about how MD Logic can increase efficiency, reduce overhead and make your clinic more profitable then please contact us toll free at 800-273-7750.