Edited by: Reid Haase, REACH HIT Consultant
Roughly 7.5 billion dollars of incentives have been paid out to eligible hospitals and providers through the EHR Incentive program. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has demanded better oversight of these payments by CMS. CMS has hired a consulting firm (Figliozzi & Co.) to conduct these pre- and post-payment audits of about 5-10% of Meaningful Use program participants.
In late May, based on requests and questions received from clients, REACH decided to begin offering FREE Audit Readiness Assessments to clients with an active Service Level Agreement. More details are available in this flier.
Audit Readiness Assessments can be scheduled in coordination with your REACH HIT Consultant. An on-site visit is scheduled after a prep call. During the site visit, we provide anticipatory guidance to clients for things like:
- How they might hear that they are being audited
- How to organize their files to maintain their audit documentation
- What documents to keep and how long to keep them
- Screen shots to take
- Advice that we have picked up from our clients who have already been audited.
So far, we have received 21 requests for the service at various client sites. 17 of the 21 sites have received or will receive a REACH Audit Readiness Assessment site visit.
We hope to be able to provide the service to all REACH clients who qualify and for which the service is appropriate. I always tell clients that these site visits are fun! It’s fascinating to hear and see the ways in which organizations have come together and, in some cases, gotten quite creative with workflows that support Meaningful Use. We learn together, and hopefully help to reduce the stress clients might feel should they receive audit notification. If you are interested in learning more about the audit process, or would like to schedule one, please contact me: stupper@stratishealth.org (for MN clients) or Patti Kritzberger at: pkritzberger@stratishealth.org (for ND).
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