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More than 21,000 providers have registered on CMS's electronic health record (EHR) attestation and reporting website in January, according to an agency press release issued Feb. 23. This figure represents roughly 2.3% of the 916,000 providers enrolled in Medicare with participating status, according to my analysis of CMS's provider enrollment numbers from its 2009 Data Compendium.

The agency is touting this statistic with some relish. "This strong early interest in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs among providers and state Medicaid programs is most welcome and very encouraging," CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, said in a prepared statement.
CMS launched a new website that your providers must personally log into in order to be paid under the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. The website, dubbed the "Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Registration and Attestation System," also checks to see if your providers even qualify for the bonus payments. If the site decides you don't qualify under the 90% rule (most relevant to surgeons), you don't have a way to appeal -- and that may not change anytime soon, according to a CMS official I exchanged emails with. 

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