For hospitals that are eligible for only the Medicare EHR Incentive Program or that are eligible for both the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, the reporting period in the first Federal fiscal year of participation is 90 days. The reporting period for all subsequent years will be the entire Federal fiscal year. Eligible hospitals and CAHs should base their attestation information on the appropriate reporting period when using this tool.
Hospitals that are eligible for only the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program do not need to successfully demonstrate meaningful use in their first year of participation in order to receive an incentive payment. The reporting period in the second Federal fiscal year of participation is 90 days. The reporting period for all remaining participation years will be the entire Federal fiscal year. Providers should base their attestation information on the appropriate reporting period when using this tool.
Instructions: Users must adequately answer each measure they intend to meet by either correctly filling in the numerator and denominator values, or successfully marking down an exclusion (for those that apply). For measures that provide more than one exclusion option, users should only answer “yes” for the one exclusion they intend to claim and leave the other blank. Note, users must mark off each of the five meaningful use menu measures they intend to meet by selecting the blank checkbox located above each menu measure. Similarly to the actual attestation system, users are not able to submit for more than five menu measures.
