How to prepare and comply with Meaningful Use audits?

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Meaningful Use Audits

• A huge number of medical practices across the country are successfully qualifying for the government’s EHR incentive program, Meaningful Use

• But quite a few are learning that there is still one big hurdle to pass before they can fully reap the benefits of their efforts

• “Any provider that participates in the incentive program and receives money could be subjected to an audit,” said Amy Thorpe managing consultant at healthcare IT consultancy Encore Health Resources

Preparing for MU Audits• Thorpe added that a Meaningful Use audit may be

nerve-wracking because if you fail it, you will have to pay all the incentive payments back

• Some of the suggestions by Thorpe to prepare for Meaningful Use audits include:– Have a clearly defined procedure in place to manage the

entire audit process from start to finish. You need to identify who in your organization will receive notice of an audit and make sure that they recognize it properly

– Ensure you can produce the required documentation quickly. Once you get an audit notice, you will have two weeks to get the information together requested by the auditor

Preparing for MU Audits– You must also ensure that you assemble information that

could be requested during an audit. Remember, you can be audited for up to six years post attestation

– Conduct a self-assessment which will tell you whether or not your practice is truly prepared for an audit

– some of the questions you can ask yourself include:• Are you keeping all of the source documents that you

used during attestation? • Have you thought about how you are going to store

that evidence for six years? • Do you have a robust system that would enable

someone to find these documents five years from now?

Preparing for MU Audits

• Can these documents be retrieved easily?• Has your organization developed a clear vision of how it

will respond to a CMS audit?

• “If you pay attention to these kinds of things and do a little planning up front … you will probably be very successful,” concluded Thorpe

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