Providers Begin Receiving Meaningful Use Audit Letters - Aug. 7, 2012

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun to audit providers who have received payments under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The audit letters, which will come from accounting firm Figliozzi and Company, request four categories of information from participants:

• a copy of the provider’s certification from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to show that the provider has a certified EHR system
• documentation to support the method used to report emergency department admissions, which affects some of the required measures
• documentation to support completion of the attestation module responses regarding the core set of objectives and measures
• documentation to support completion of the attestation module responses regarding the menu set of objectives and measures