Robert Anthony, Health Insurance Specialist in CMS' Office of E-Health Standards and Services, walked Web seminar attendees through the registration and attestation processes and answered questions.
He advised registering long before being ready to attest for meaningful use to ensure any problems are resolved and attestation doesn't get delayed. "Registration in the program doesn't commit you to anything," Anthony said. Providers register for the Medicare or Medicaid programs on the same CMS Web site, but those attesting to Medicaid meaningful use will do so on a state-specific Web site. Other tips from Anthony include:
* Get your EHR's meaningful use certification number (which is required) from the government's Certified HIT Product List Web site, not the vendor.
* On attestation pages, most measures have a data field for the numerator first followed by the denominator, but the boxes are reversed for clinical quality measures.
* Eligible providers can designate a third party, such as an office manager, to register and attest on their behalf.
* A provider that fails attestation need not wait for 90 days to re-attest, but can select a different 90-day reporting period-even if it varies by only a day or so from the previous period.
The Web seminar is available at healthdatamanagement.com/web_seminars.
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