The Medicare
Promoting Interoperability Program Hardship Exception Application for
Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals is Now Available
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
requires that all eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs)
use 2015 Edition certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) to
meet the requirements of the Promoting Interoperability Programs. CMS
mandates downward payment adjustments be applied to eligible hospitals
and CAHs that are not meaningful users of CEHRT.
Eligible hospitals and CAHs may be exempt from Medicare
penalties if they can show that compliance with the requirement for being
a meaningful EHR user would result in a significant hardship. To be
considered for an exemption, eligible hospitals and CAHs must complete a
hardship exception application and provide proof of hardship.
The application for eligible hospitals and CAHs is now available online
as a web-based application and can be found here.
Hardship Exception Application Details
- You may now submit hardship applications
electronically here.
- If an electronic submission is not possible, you
may verbally submit your application over the phone by calling the
QualityNet Help Desk at (866) 288-8912.
- The deadline for eligible hospitals to submit an
application is July
1, 2019.
- The deadline for CAHs to submit an application is
November 30,
2019.
For More Information
For more information about payment adjustments and hardship
information, click here. For more information on the
Promoting Interoperability Programs, visit the Promoting Interoperability Programs website.
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