I listened to a webinar recently on Meaningful Use which I did not understand as it related to missing a year of attesting. For example, if a hospital for some reason was not able to attest to Meaningful Use say in 2014, but they got right back in the next year, would that mean the 3 month attesting is gone now and they would need to do a complete year from Oct. 1, 2014 to Sept. 30 2015? And how would this effect their payments?

  • MU-EH-Stage 2-Attestation

Each year after the first attestation year requires full year of attestation (exception currently one quarter for 2014 only); therefore, if you miss 2014, 2015 should be a full year of attestation required. If the payment is For Acute PPS, the missed year would result in the 25% reduction associated with the missed year of the four potential incentive payment years. If CAH, the reduction would be related to missed Reasonable costs as calculated. Overall, there are four potential years of incentive payments for hospitals for those starting early, any missed year will also result in Medicare payment adjustments starting in 2015 for previous years.