This week we announced that eligible professionals and hopsitals can now register and attest for Medicaid incentives, if they qualify. The first year’s incentive is merely based on “AIU” or acquire, implement or upgrade to a Certified EHR system and not demonstrating the need for 90 days of meaningful use reporting. This incentive option is available to as long as you qualify and have not already attested for Medicare (in which case you will need to demonstrate to Medicaid a 90 day meaningful use.
Every provider who wants to register and attest for Medicaid EHR incentives must have an Active Medicaid participating provider ID. This could affect some of our rural health clinics or practices who employ a nurse practitioner and have not billed for that individual separately (and thus do not have an Active Medicaid ID). It can take 4-6 weeks for HCPF to issue an ID which could delay registration and attestation.
We want to remind our blog readers that their Colorado Rural Health Center/ClinicNet Regional Extension Center (REC) team member can help you with the Medicaid attestation.
