Miscellaneous

My facility plans on meeting Meaningful Use for the first time in FFY 2014. What stage will I have to meet and how do we get started?
  • MU-EH-Stage 1-System Requirements
  • MU-EH-Stage 1-Misc.
  • MU-EP-Stage 1-System Requirements
  • MU-EP-Stage 1-Misc.

Your facility will attest using the Stage 1 2014 Edition. To get started you will need to contact the Sales Account Manager assigned to your facility. The Account Manager will conduct a gap analysis to determine if you still need to purchase any necessary applications. Once all required applications have been ordered, the process will be turned over to Software Services. Software Services will schedule any needed application installations and educate your team on the each of the Meaningful Use objectives.

We are a critical access hospital with a psychiatric unit that bills under POS code 21 but are excluded from the IPPS. Should these patients be included in the denominator for the Meaningful Use measures?
  • MU-EH-Stage 1-Attestation
  • MU-EH-Stage 1-Misc.
  • MU-EH-Stage 2-Attestation
  • MU-EH-Stage 2-Misc

No. According to the final rule, the definition of hospital used for Meaningful Use measures does not apply to hospitals excluded from the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), such as psychiatric or rehabilitation units. If patients treated in the psychiatric unit are also admitted to areas of the inpatient department that are not excluded from IPPS, then they should be counted in the denominator (and numerator) for Meaningful Use measures.

For more information, see the CMS FAQ on this topic.