CMS lays it out there as concisely as possible: “Any provider attesting to receive an EHR incentive payment for either the Medicare or Medicaid EHR Incentive Program potentially can be subject to an audit”. Prepayment, post-payment, Medicare, Medicaid, dually-eligible, Eligible Professionals (EP), Eligible Hospitals (EH), national level, state level and yes, even Office of the Inspector General (OIG) oversight audits. How can you tell the players without a scorecard? Audits related to the CMS EHR Incentive programs have continued to change over time both in the nature and source of the audits. Some of the processes have matured into paths that are predictable while others continue to reflect confusion and inconsistently. At EMR Advocate, Inc. our involvement with audits based on the MU program began in June 2011.
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