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On Feb. 26, CMS announed it was extending the deadline to apply for a hardship exception for its Medicare EHR Incentive Program from March 15 to July 1.

You can file a hardship exception for the 2015 meaningful use reporting year even if you plan to attest to the program -- and the hardship application will not prevent you from receiving incentive payments should you attest successfully.
Following up to a story we first reported last week: Providers will be able to file a heardship exception for the meaningful use program until March 15, 2016, after President Obama signed the Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act (S.2425) into law.
CMS has scaled back some objectives in stage 2 of the electronic health records (EHR) meaningful use program but plowed ahead with stage 3, according to a final rule released Oct. 6.

The stage 2 meaningful use final rule makes it official that the second phase of attestation for electronic health records (EHR) incentive payments will begin no sooner than 2014.

CMS also finalized that eligible providers (EPs) must register and attest for stage 1 meaningful use by Oct. 1, 2014, to avoid a penalty in 2015.  

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