Director, HIT Initiatives Group

0938-AR71 201410 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 0900 Department of Health and Human Services HHS Health Information Technology: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Certification Criteria Updates and Revisions to the EHR Incentive Program (CMS-0046-F)

This final rule revises the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs by adding exclusions to the measures for the stage 2 meaningful use objectives for electronic notes, and providing electronic laboratory results to ambulatory providers, revising the clinical quality measure (CQM) for breast cancer screening by removing National Quality Forum, and making the case number threshold exemption for CQM reporting effective for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals beginning with Fiscal Year 2013.

]]> Other Significant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Completed Actions No No 42 CFR 495 42 USC 1302 42 USC 1395hh Statutory Final 12/07/2015 MMA section 902 No Interim Final Rule 12/07/2012 77 FR 72985 Interim Final Rule Comment Period End 02/05/2013 Merged With 0938-AS30 07/08/2014 No Businesses None No No No 0991-AB89 Related to 0938-AS30 Merged with Elizabeth Holland Director, HIT Initiatives Group 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 410 786-1309 Office of E-Health Standards and Services, Mail Stop S2-26-17, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore MD 21244