Doctors who spent heavily trying to comply with ObamaCare\u2019s electronic health records mandate could still be hit with costly penalties.<\/p>\n
ObamaCare gives doctors until October 1, 2014, to switch from paper-based to electronic health records. Failure to comply results in losing 1 percent of federal reimbursements for treating Medicare patients.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the rub.<\/p>\n
\u201c[P]hysicians who went electronic for the first time this year are discovering that [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS] won\u2019t be ready to officially register the evidence of their work until mid-October. That means they will miss the Oct. 1 deadline, and CMS will withhold 1 percent of their 2015 Medicare payments,\u201d reports Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n That means that a doctors\u2019 group like Morganton Eye Physicians in North Carolina spent $1.3 million to buy and implement new software \u2013 and added $250,000 to its annual operating budget \u2013 only to be threatened with a $65,000 penalty because the federal government can\u2019t meet its own compliance deadline.<\/p>\n One would think CMS has a moral obligation to waive compliance until the agency is able to do its job, but so far it\u2019s requiring doctors to submit to a cumbersome hardship process. How does a business politely explain that the hardship exists completely because of government ineptitude?<\/p>\n Welcome to ObamaCare\u2019s bureaucratic hell. More episodes to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Doctors who spent heavily trying to comply with ObamaCare\u2019s electronic health records mandate could still be hit with costly penalties. ObamaCare gives doctors until October 1, 2014, to switch from paper-based to electronic health records. Failure to comply results in losing 1 percent of federal reimbursements for treating Medicare patients. Here\u2019s the rub. \u201c[P]hysicians who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4579,3308,232,235,35,300],"class_list":["post-21539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cms","tag-health","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-obamacare","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21539"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21546,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions\/21546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}