Author: NC Medicaid EHR Incentive Program
Program Year 2017 and 2018 Updates
The NC Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program is no longer accepting Program Year 2017 attestations.
Program Year 2017 attestations are being processed in the order they were received. Attestations received in April may take up to 20 weeks to be processed from the date the signed attestation was received.
Providers may check the status of their attestation on the Status Page of the NC Medicaid EHR Incentive Payment System (NC-MIPS).
Updates for Program Year 2018
NC-MIPS is currently accepting Program Year 2018 Modified Stage 2 and Stage 3 Meaningful Use (MU) attestations.
On Aug. 14, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule. The release of this final rule impacts the following for the NC Medicaid EHR Incentive Program in Program Year 2018:
- Providers may attest to either Modified Stage 2 MU or Stage 3 MU.
- Providers may use a 2014 Edition Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT), 2015 Edition CEHRT, or a combination of 2014 Edition and 2015 Edition CEHRT.
- Providers will select six Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) from a list of 53.
- Providers may continue using a 90-day EHR reporting period (our MU objective reporting period).
- In Program Year 2018, providers who have met MU in a previous program year will be required to report a full calendar year CQM reporting period.
Because the CQM reporting period must be a full calendar year, this means EPs will not be able to submit CQM data in NC-MIPS until Jan. 1, 2019.
To accommodate providers who would like early review of requirements, excluding CQMs, the NC Medicaid EHR Incentive Program is allowing providers to submit their attestation in two parts.
Part 1 of the attestation may be submitted between May 1, 2018 and Dec. 31, 2018. It includes the following information: demographic, license, patient volume, and MU objective data. Providers will not be required to sign or email any documentation for Part 1. The signed attestation packet will be emailed only once – after submission of CQMs.
Once Part 1 is submitted on NC-MIPS, we will conduct validations. If there are discrepancies, we will conduct outreach, giving providers ample time to address any issues.
After we validate Part 1 of the attestation, providers may return Jan. 1, 2019 through April 30, 2019, to submit their CQM data on NC-MIPS. After submitting that information on NC-MIPS, providers will then email the signed attestation packet and CQM report from the provider’s EHR to NCMedicaid.HIT@dhhs.nc.gov to complete Part 2 of the attestation.
Note: This process does not increase or reduce the information being submitted, but allows providers to complete their attestation in a 12-month window instead of four.
Visit the N.C. Medicaid EHR Incentive Program website for additional updates as they become available.
N.C. Medicaid EHR Incentive Program
NCMedicaid.HIT@dhhs.nc.gov (email preferred)