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I feel you, CMS Acting Adminsitrator Andy Slavitt basically told providers who struggle with CMS' meaningful use requirements on March 2. But his sympathetic comments at the annual HIMSS meeting did not come with details as to how he would make things easier or more effective.

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.

A Medicare contractor is expanding the range of place of service (POS) codes they'll accept on advance care planning codes -- and will reverse denials made on those grounds.

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.
Some providers who are juggling 50 to 100 different measures across various payers have something to look forward to: a total of 21 uniform measures that they'd report to all payers. That was a key take-away from the Feb. 16 CMS press call about the core measures collaborative, a quality initiative that Medicare and private payers will use.

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