Medicare Incentive Payments to United States Ophthalmologists for Use of Electronic Health Records: 2011-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate ophthalmologists' rate of attestation to meaningful use (MU) of their electronic health record (EHR) systems in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program and their continuity and success in receiving payments in comparison with other specialties.

Design

Administrative database study.

Participants

Eligible professionals participating in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program.

Methods

Based on publicly available data sources, subsets of payment and attestation data were created for ophthalmologists and for other specialties. The number of eligible professionals attesting was determined using the attestation data for each year and stage of the program. The proportion of attestations by EHR vendor was calculated using all attestations for each vendor.

SUBMITTER: Boland MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6662572 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature