ehr onc final certification - Department of Health Care Services
ehr onc final certification - Department of Health Care Services
ehr onc final certification - Department of Health Care Services
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§170.302(j) - Check insurance eligibility and §170.302(k) - Submit claims<br />
Meaningful Use<br />
Stage 1<br />
Objective<br />
Removed from<br />
<strong>final</strong> rule<br />
Meaningful Use<br />
Stage 1<br />
Objective<br />
Removed from<br />
<strong>final</strong> rule<br />
Meaningful Use<br />
Stage 1 Measure<br />
Removed from<br />
<strong>final</strong> rule<br />
Meaningful Use<br />
Stage 1 Measure<br />
Removed from<br />
<strong>final</strong> rule<br />
Page 84 <strong>of</strong> 228<br />
Certification Criterion<br />
Interim Final Rule Text:<br />
Enable a user to electronically record and display patients’<br />
insurance eligibility, and submit insurance eligibility queries<br />
to public or private payers and receive an eligibility response<br />
in accordance with the applicable standards and<br />
implementation specifications specified in §170.205(d)(1) or<br />
(2).<br />
Final Rule Text:<br />
Removed<br />
Certification Criterion<br />
Interim Final Rule Text:<br />
Enable a user to electronically submit claims to public or<br />
private payers in accordance with the standard and<br />
implementation specifications specified in §170.205(d)(3).<br />
Final Rule Text:<br />
Removed<br />
Comments. Many commenters recommended that the <strong>certification</strong> criteria for<br />
administrative transactions be removed because they considered the administrative<br />
capabilities that we required to be outside <strong>of</strong> the scope <strong>of</strong> an electronic health record and<br />
stated further that their inclusion did not align with the HIT industry’s common view <strong>of</strong><br />
what constituted EHR technology. A large number <strong>of</strong> commenters conveyed specific<br />
challenges including: these functions are usually handled by practice management<br />
systems which generally are separate from an EHR, although on occasion some vendors<br />
include these functionalities in their EHRs; practice management systems adoption is<br />
already very high and requiring <strong>certification</strong> for these products would be unnecessary and<br />
burdensome, given the wide variety and number <strong>of</strong> vendors and significant potential for<br />
increasing costs for providers; providers interested in achieving meaningful use would<br />
have to abandon a working practice management system if their practice management