Please review information below regarding CMS filing extensions for 2015 Meaningful Use and 2015 PQRS
Meaningful Use (2015)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the attestation deadline for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The deadline is now Friday, March 11, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. ET (changed from the original deadline of Monday, February 29).
To attest to the EHR Incentive Programs in 2015, Eligible Professionals may select an EHR reporting period of any continuous 90 days from January 1, 2015 (the start of the 2015 calendar year) through December 31, 2015.
Providers attesting under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program will attest using the CMS Registration and Attestation System; providers attesting under the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program should refer to their respective states for instructions and deadlines.
For more information on attestation, visit the CMS Registration and Attestation page. For more information on 2015 meaningful use rules visit the CMS 2015 Program Requirements page.
PQRS (2015)
CMS also is extending the submission date for 2015 QRDA data submission for 2015 PQRS reporting using the EHR reporting mechanism. Individual eligible professionals (EPs), PQRS group practices, qualified clinical data registries (QCDRs) and qualified EHR data submission vendors (DSVs) now have until March 11, 2016, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) to submit 2015 EHR data via QRDA.
The complete list to submission timeframes for all 2015 PQRS reporting options is now as follows:
* EHR Direct or Data Submission Vendor (QRDA I or III) – 1/1/16 – 3/11/16
* Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QRDA III) – 1/1/16 – 3/11/16
* Group Practice Reporting Option (GPRO) Web Interface – 1/18/16 – 3/11/16
* Qualified Registries (Registry XML) – 1/1/16 – 3/31/16
* QCDRs (QCDR XML) – 1/1/16 – 3/31/16
Submission ends at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the end date listed
Click here for complete information on PQRS.