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Meaningful Mess?

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Post date August 9, 2016
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Since first announcing that Meaningful Use (MU) would go the way of dinosaurs in January of 2016, CMS has been less than forthcoming in defining what the world might look like for hospitals after MU. While the MACRA program has begun to define how clinicians will be paid, hospitals remain in limbo with CMS stating […]

Meaningful Use Has Cost Taxpayers 34.7 Billion Dollars, Was it Worth it?

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Post date July 14, 2016
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According to a recent article by John Lynn, founder of HealthCareScene, “CMS has put out the latest data on meaningful use participation and payments. They broke the Medicare dollars out by meaningful use Stage 1 and Stage 2. Meaningful use Stage 1 cost nearly $20 billion. Meaningful use Stage 2 cost $3.4 billion. The amounts were […]