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CMS Delays Stage 3 Reporting Requirements for Meaningful Use Until 2017

From CMA's December 16, 2013, CMA Alert Late last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed updates to the electronic health records (EHR) incentive program timeline that extends stage 2 meaningful use for an additional year through 2016. That means that providers participating in the program will now not be required to start stage 3 until January 2017 at the earliest. The goal of this change is two-fold: first, to allow CMS to focus efforts on the successful implementation of the enhanced patient engagement, interoperability and health ...