Quote of the Day

“CMS has created an appeals process [under the Medicare-Medicaid electronic health record incentive payment program] fraught with opportunities for technical missteps serving to forfeit the hospital’s right to pursue review of a failed [meaningful use] audit. The technical missteps include time limitations, document limitations and transmission limitations — any of which may serve to derail an appeal if done incorrectly.”




— Robert Trusiak, chief compliance officer and associate general counsel at Kaleida Health In Buffalo, told AIS’s Report on Medicare Compliance