This document from CMS provides an update on EHR incentive programs for Medicare and Medicaid providers in December 2011. It summarizes registration and payment data, including over 18,000 registrations and $694 million in incentives paid that month. Charts show the number of providers paid and incentive payments by month are increasing. Data on provider attestation to meaningful use criteria is also presented, showing high performance across eligibility criteria on average.

1. Medicare & Medicaid
EHR Incentive Programs
Robert Tagalicod, Robert Anthony,
and Jessica Kahn
HIT Policy Committee
January 10, 2012
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

2. Active Registrations –
December 2011
December-11 YTD
Eligible Professional 8,996 123,923
Hospital 0 168
Total 8,996 124,089
Eligible Professional 9,614 49,051
Hospital 9 75
Total 8,186 39,503
Hospital (registered for
both Medicare & Medicaid ) 200 2,834
18,819 176,049
For final CMS reports, please visit:
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/56_DataAndReports.asp
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

3. Medicare Incentive Payments –
December 2011
Meaningful Use (MU)
YTD
December 2011 December 2011 Providers YTD
Providers Paid Payments Paid Payments
Eligible Professional 4,997 $ 86,946,000 15,255 $ 274,590,000
Medicare Only Hospital 4 $ 5,600,870 38 $ 56,782,557
Medicare & Medicaid
Hospital
(Medicare Payment) 189 $ 369,136,265 566 $ 1,052,839,955
TOTAL 5,190 $ 464,683,136 15,859 $ 1,384,212,512
For final CMS reports, please visit:
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/56_DataAndReports.asp 3
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

4. Medicaid Incentive Payments –
December 2011
(Both MU and AIU)
YTD
December 2011 December 2011 Providers YTD
Providers Paid Payments Paid Payments
Eligible Professional 2,794 $ 58,373,535 11,270 $ 295,760,910
Medicare & Medicaid
Hospital
(Medicaid Payment) +
Medicaid Only Hospital 230 $ 165,141,069 1,016 $ 787,466,254
TOTAL 3,024 $ 229,380,747 15,132 $ 1,149,476,633
For final CMS reports, please visit:
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/56_DataAndReports.asp 4
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

5. EHR Incentive Programs –
December 2011 Totals
Registrations December-11 YTD
Medicare EPs 8,996 123,921
Medicaid EPs 9,614 49,051
Medicaid/Medicare Hospitals 200 2,834
Total 18,819 176,049
Payments December-11 YTD
Medicare EPs $95,546,870 $274,590,000
Medicaid EPs $64,239,678 $362,010,379
Medicaid/Medicare Hospitals
(Medicare Payment) $369,136,265 $1,052,839,955
Medicaid/Medicare Hospitals
(Medicaid Payment) $165,141,069 $787,466,254
Total $694,063,883 $2,533,689,145
For final CMS reports, please visit: 5
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/ http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/56_DataAndReports.asp

6. EHR Incentive Programs –
December 2011
Providers Paid by Month
Providers Paid
9,000
8,000
7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
6
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

7. EHR Incentive Programs –
December 2011
Incentive Payments by Month
$800,000,000 Incentive Payments
$700,000,000
$600,000,000
$500,000,000
$400,000,000
$300,000,000
$200,000,000
$100,000,000
$0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
7
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

8. Medicaid Implementation Report (1/12)
States launched as of January 2012: 42
National Status Map # of States that disbursed incentives: 33
March 2011
June 2011 VT ME
WA
MT ND NH
MN
MA
OR NY
WI
ID SD MI RI
WY PA CT
IA OH NJ
NE
IL IN DE
NV WV MD
UT VA
CO KY
KS MO
CA DC
NC
TN
19 SMHPs approved AZ NM
OK AR
MS
WA
AL
GA
SC
August 2011 VT ME
TX LA MT ND NH
MN
MA
OR FL NY
WI
ID Territories
SD RI
MI
AK Planning WY PR PA CT
SMHPs Pending USVINE IA OH NJ
HI SMHPs Approved GU IL IN DE
NV WV MD
IAPDs Pending UT CNMI VA
IAPDs Approved
CA
Launched
CO
AS KS MO
TN
KY
NC
DC December 2011
Incentives Disbursed
OK SC ME
AR VT
17 launched, 12 incentives, $121,958,515 AZ NM
MS AL
GA WA
MT ND NH
TX LA MN
MA
OR NY
FL
WI
ID
Territories SD MI RI
AK Planning AS WY PA CT
SMHPs Pending CNMI IA OH NJ
NE
HI SMHPs Approved GU
NV PR IL IN DE
IAPDs Pending WV
UT VA MD
IAPDs Approved USVI CO
KS MO KY
Launched DC
CA NC
Incentives Disbursed
TN
23 launched, 16 incentives, $247,000,000 AZ NM
OK AR
SC
GA
MS AL
TX LA
FL
AK
Planning Territories
SMHPs Submitted AS
HI
SMHPs Final Approval CNMI
IAPDs Pending GU
IAPDs Approval PR
Launched USVI
Incentives Disbursed
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/
43 launched, 33 incentives : $908,955,358 *
8

9. CMS EHR Incentive Programs
Attestation Data
9
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

10. Data Caveats
As of December 2011:
• Only Medicare EPs are attesting to meaningful use.
• Medicaid EPs are attesting to AIU
• Acute care/critical access hospitals could be receiving
a meaningful use incentive payment from both
Medicare and Medicaid
• Medicaid-only hospitals are only attesting to AIU
• Reports from January onward will include both
Medicare and Medicaid MU data, as well as Medicaid
AIU data as available
10
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/ http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/56_DataAndReports.asp

11. Highlights
• MU data is only for Medicare physicians and for acute
care and critical access hospitals. It is not a
representative sample of EPs, nor of all eligible
hospitals.
• Do we have the n?
• What we know about early adopters:
• On average all thresholds were greatly exceeded, but every
threshold had some providers on the borderline
• Little difference between EP and hospitals
• Little difference among specialties in performance, but
differences in exclusions
11
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

12. Providers Included in MU
Analysis
At the time of the analysis:
• 33,595 Medicare EPs had attested
• 33,240 Successfully
• 355 Unsuccessfully (89 previously unsuccessful resubmitted)
• 842 Acute Care and Critical Access Hospitals had
attested
• All successfully
12
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

13. EP Quality, Safety, Efficiency, and
Reduce Health Disparities
Objective Performance Exclusion Deferral
Recording objectives* 90%+ 9%* N/A
CPOE 85% 17% N/A
Electronic prescribing 78% 22% N/A
Incorporate lab results 91% 4% 36%
Drug-formulary checks N/A 14% 17%
Patient lists N/A N/A 27%
Send reminders to patients 61% 0.5% 77%
*Refers to problem, med, allergy lists, vital signs, demographics and smoking
status. Exclusion is for vital signs and smoking status.
13
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

14. EP Engage Patients and Their
Families
Objective Performance Exclusion Deferral
E – Copy of Health Information 96% 75% N/A
Office visit summaries 78% 2% N/A
Patient Education Resources 50% N/A 49%
Timely electronic access 75% 1% 62%
14
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

15. EP Improve Care Coordination
Objective Performance Exclusion Deferral
Medication reconciliation 89% 3% 56%
Summary of care at transitions 88% 3% 85%
15
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

16. EP Improve Population and
Public Health
Objective Performance* Exclusion Deferral
Immunizations 34% 45% 20%
Syndromic Surveillance 3% 27% 70%
*Performance is percentage of attesting providers who conducted test
16
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

17. EH Quality, Safety, Efficiency,
and Reduce Health Disparities
Objective Performance Exclusion Deferral
Recording objectives* +93% 0.5% 0%
CPOE 85% N/A N/A
Advance directives 95% 0.1% 13%
Incorporate lab results 95% N/A 18%
Drug-formulary checks N/A N/A 13%
Patient lists N/A N/A 34%
*Refers to problem, med, allergy lists, vital signs, demographics and smoking
status. Exclusion is for vital signs and smoking status.
17
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

18. EH Engage Patients and Their
Families
Objective Performance Exclusion Deferral
E – copy of health information 96% 68% N/A
E – copy of discharge
96% 59% N/A
Instructions
Patient education resources 71% N/A 62%
18
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

19. EH Improve Care
Coordination
Objective Performance Deferral
Medication reconciliation 84% 75%
Summary of care at transitions 81% 93%
19
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

20. EH Improve Population
and Public Health
Objective Performance* Exclusion Deferral
Immunizations 48% 15% 37%
Reportable Lab Results 16% 7% 77%
Syndromic Surveillance 18% 3% 79%
*Performance is percentage of attesting providers who conducted test
20
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

21. Specialty Performance
•Family practice, internal medicine, and optometry highest
for CPOE
•Optometry and podiatry had lowest rates of recording
vitals
•Gastroenterology lowest rate for patient electronic access
by almost 10%
•For providing patient education resources, optometry was
nearly 10% higher than others, podiatry was nearly 20%
lower.
•All others measures were consistent across specialties.
21
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

22. Concluding Points
• Preliminary monthly data is provided to the
HITPC for consideration
• Official data should be sourced and cited from
the CMS website, updated monthly
(http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/56_
DataAndReports.asp)
• Some States began accepting meaningful use
attestations for Medicaid-only EHs in January
• Some States will begin accepting meaningful
use attestations from Medicaid EPs in April
For final CMS reports, please visit: 22
http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/ http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/56_DataAndReports.asp