CMS releases user guide on MU batch reporting

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a user guide illuminating how providers participating in the EHR incentive program can submit their attestation with other members of their medical group or hospital system.

Beginning in the 2014 reporting period, the Attestation Batch Upload option allows multiple eligible professionals and hospitals to submit attestations in a single file through CMS. Below are the possible combinations for submitting batch attestations:

• Meaningful use core measures and meaningful use menu measures
• Meaningful use core measures, meaningful use menu measures, and clinical quality measures (CQMs)
• CQMs only

While attestation can take place in batches, Medicare payments are provided to individuals, not to medical groups or hospital systems, the agency clarified.

Providers in the Medicaid EHR incentive program need to consult their state officers to determining if batch reporting is available.

To learn more, go here.