Eric Fader was quoted in a January 19 article, "Providers
Get More Time to Report Electronic Health Record Data," in
Bloomberg BNA's Health Care Daily Report, Health Care
Policy Report, and other publications. The article
discussed the two-week extension granted by the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for healthcare providers to
report on their electronic health record (EHR) use.
The extension of the reporting deadline is sure to be welcomed by
hospitals and physicians, Eric told Bloomberg BNA, but it
may not be long enough. Last August, a survey of hospitals
found that very few were prepared at that time to submit EHR
data, even though most hospitals surveyed believed that they would
be able to get up to speed by the February 28 (now March 13), 2017
deadline.
Eric speculated that some hospitals may have conveyed to CMS that
they're going to have trouble meeting the reporting deadline,
or that perhaps CMS was able to draw that conclusion from the
volume of test submissions to date. It may also be that CMS has had
some issues with the reporting system warranting a small extension
of time. In any event, Eric observed, "CMS apparently prefers
to keep the pressure on by extending the time to report only
slightly."
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