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1 A BNA, INC. HEALTH IT! LAW & INDUSTRY REPORT Reproduced with permission from Health IT Law & Industry Report, 2 HITR 23, 01/18/2010. Copyright 2010 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. ( ) Meaningful Use and Certification of Electronic Health Records Under the HITECH Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs Key Details Emerge with Start of CMS and ONC Rulemakings BY WILLIAM S. BERNSTEIN, WILLIAM A. CONNELLY, AND SUSAN R. INGARGIOLA T he Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act ( HITECH ), included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ( ARRA ) and signed into law in February 2009, set in motion the first significant federal health care funding opportunity for health information technology ( health IT ). HITECH established electronic health record ( EHR ) incentive programs, which offer Medicare and Medicaid financial incentives for eligible professionals ( EPs ) and eligible hospitals ( EHs ) that adopt and engage in meaningful use of certified EHR technology (and impose payment penalties on Bernstein is Chair of the Health Care Division at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP. Connelly is an associate at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP and Ingargiola is a manager at Manatt Health Solutions. Bernstein may be contacted at Connelly may be contacted at and Ingargiola may be contacted at manatt.com. providers that do not). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( CMS ) estimates that the Medicare and Medicaid incentive programs will result in an aggregate $14.1 billion to $27.3 billion in net federal expenditures, 1 but the level of actual federal disbursements will hinge on what meaningful use means and how many providers can achieve it. On Dec. 30, 2009, the government took a significant step forward toward answering this question by setting forth comprehensive proposals that govern the distribution of HITECH meaningful use dollars. These include a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking defining the eligibility and requirements for Medicare and Medicaid providers who want to participate in the EHR incentive programs (the NPRM ), released by CMS, and an Interim Final Rule with Comment Period outlining the required standards and certification criteria for EHR technologies to support the EHR incentive programs (the 1 This estimate is contained in CMS s regulatory impact analysis on the meaningful use proposed rule. The estimated range is substantially less than the $44.7 billion CMS previously assumed in its ARRA implementation plan. COPYRIGHT 2010 BY THE BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS, INC. ISSN
2 2 IFC ), released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT ( ONC ). Feedback on the NPRM and IFC has begun to flow. Different stakeholders have different perspectives about whether providers will be able to meet the proposed meaningful use criteria, and whether the regulations do enough to move the health care system toward true interoperability and patient-centeredness. The regulations release followed months of statements about the goals HITECH is intended to achieve, which, according to ONC include, above all else... to make care better for patients, and to make it patientcentered. 2 To achieve this goal, National Coordinator David Blumenthal has explained, information exchange must cross institutional and business boundaries... the goal is to have information flow seamlessly and effortlessly to every nook and cranny of our health system. 3 This article provides key details about the proposed requirements constituting meaningful use and the EHR certification criteria, standards, and implementation specifications to support them. The article focuses on these meaningful use criteria and does not address CMS s proposals regarding eligibility and payment under the EHR incentive programs. It also sets forth questions, beginning to be raised by stakeholders, which attempt to evaluate whether the NPRM and IFC are consistent with HITECH s ultimate goal of creating a patient-centered health care system. Comments on both rules are due March 15. The IFC takes effect Feb. 12 (though, based on comments, ONC could make changes later), while meaningful use requirements become effective 60 days after publication of a final rule. CMS says it expects to publish such a rule after March Key NPRM and IFC Details HITECH specifies three requirements for meaningful use: 1) using certified EHR technology in a meaningful manner (which includes e-prescribing for EPs); 2) connecting a certified EHR in a manner that provides for the electronic exchange of health information to improve the quality of care; and 3) using the technology to submit to CMS information on clinical quality measures and other measures selected by CMS. Phased Approach to Meaningful Use CMS proposes a phased, incremental approach of adoption of certified EHR technology across 3 stages, 2 The HITECH Foundation for Health Information Exchange: A Message from Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. November 12, Id. which it describes as building over time to a more robust definition of meaningful use under Medicare, consistent with anticipated development of technology and health IT infrastructure. CMS proposes specific objectives and measures only for Stage 1, but the agency plans to establish Stage 2 and Stage 3 criteria through future rulemaking processes. CMS describes each Stage as follows: s Stage 1 meaningful use criteria focus on: 1) capturing health information in a coded format; 2) using the information to track key clinical conditions; 3) communicating captured information for care coordination purposes; and 4) reporting of clinical quality measures and public health information. s Stage 2 criteria would likely expand upon Stage 1 criteria in the areas of disease management, clinical decision support, medication management, support for patient access to their health information, transitions in care, quality measurement, research, and bi-directional communication with public health agencies. CMS expects to propose Stage 2 criteria by the end of s Stage 3 criteria would likely focus on achieving improvements in quality, safety and efficiency, focusing on decision support for national high priority conditions, patient access to self-management tools, access to comprehensive patient data, and improving population health outcomes. CMS expects to propose Stage 3 criteria by the end of Common Definition of Meaningful Use Under Medicare and Medicaid CMS proposes that the Medicare meaningful use criteria serve as a minimum standard, or floor, for the Medicaid program. States would be permitted, with CMS approval, to implement additional objectives or amend existing measures, provided that the stateproposed alternatives further promote the use of EHRs and do not require additional functionality beyond that required of certified EHR technology. It is important to note that hospitals (except children s hospitals) need only meet the Medicare meaningful use criteria, even if a state requires additional criteria under Medicaid. Stage 1 Meaningful Use Criteria In proposing meaningful use requirements, CMS adopts the basic structure reflected in the recommendations of the HIT Policy Committee the federal advisory committee tasked with making recommendations to the Department of Health & Human Services ( HHS ) regarding a definition for meaningful use. This structure features specific objectives grouped under care goals, which are in turn grouped under health outcomes policy priorities. CMS proposes that to qualify as a meaningful EHR user in 2011, an EP or EH must demonstrate that it meets all of the objectives and their associated measures set forth as Stage 1 criteria. For Stage 1, CMS proposes 25 objectives and related measures for EPs and 23 for EHs. Each objective must be satisfied by an individual EP as determined by unique National Provider Identifier and an individual EH as determined by unique CMS certification numbers. The EHR NPRM groups measures into two categories: health IT functionality measures and clinical quality measures COPYRIGHT 2010 BY THE BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS, INC. HITR ISSN
3 3 Health IT Functionality Measures The health IT functionality measures proposed by CMS can be divided into three categories: 1. Measures that rely solely on capabilities included as part of certified EHR technology (i.e., do not require health information exchange ( HIE ): A number of health IT functionality measures require only that a functionality included as part of certified EHR technology be enabled and/or utilized in order to meet a measure threshold, and do not require the electronic exchange of information. Specific examples are discussed further below. 2. Measures that require HIE: A number of proposed objectives and associated measures rely on the electronic exchange of information. These can be subdivided into two categories: 1) Measures that rely on the electronic exchange of information for which CMS assumes adequate HIE exists to enable the attainment of specific performance measure thresholds; and 2) Measures that rely on the electronic exchange of information for which CMS assumes inadequate HIE infrastructure exists to support the attainment of specific measure thresholds and for which testing is required. Specific examples are discussed further below. 3. One security measure: This measure requires that EHs and EPs conduct or review a security risk analysis [under the HIPAA Security Rule] and implement security updates as necessary. Clinical Quality Measures The third core requirement of meaningful use is that an EP or EH use certified EHR technology to submit information on such clinical quality measures and such other measures as CMS shall select. For 2011, EPs and EHs would use certified EHRs to capture data and calculate results, but merely be required to attest to CMS that they have done so. CMS proposes electronic submission of quality measures beginning in 2012, but this is contingent on CMS developing the capacity to accept quality measures electronically. CMS proposes to define clinical quality measures to mean measures of processes, experience, and/or outcomes of patient care, observations or treatment that relate to one or more quality aims for health care such as effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered, equitable and timely care. CMS notes that states may require reporting of clinical quality measures to demonstrate Medicaid meaningful use. Providers would be required to report on the Medicare quality measures to qualify as meaningful users under the Medicaid program, though the agency identifies separate, alternative Medicaid measures for eligible hospitals with patient populations not reflective of the clinical characteristics represented by the Medicare measures. The statute requires CMS, in selecting clinical quality measures, to give preference to measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum ( NQF ). However, the statute does not actually require use of NQF-endorsed measures and, in some instances, CMS has selected non-nqf measures. Many of the clinical quality measures are already reported to CMS (though not via EHRs) under Medicare s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative ( PQRI ) or Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update ( RHQDAPU ) programs. For Stage 1, EPs would submit information on two sets of quality measures one set, designated core, for which all EPs would make submissions, and another set to be selected by EPs themselves, based on the EP s specialty. Flexibility in Provider Adoption Requirements CMS proposes that providers would progress through Stages 1 3 based on the payment year they begin meaningful use, rather than imposing the same meaningful use standards on all providers in a given year. Thus, late adopters would not face more stringent criteria in the first year of adoption than early adopters. However, CMS proposes to require that these late adopters progress more quickly through the stages, so that all providers would be in Stage 3 by The following table lays out the timeline for moving through stages, depending on the first payment year. First Payment Year Payment Year ** Stage 1 Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 2 Stage Stage 1 Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage Stage 1 Stage 3 *2015+ Stage 3 * Avoids payment penalties only for EPs in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. ** Stage 3 Criteria of meaningful use or a subsequent update to the criteria if one is established through future rulemaking. EHR Certification, Standards, and Implementation Specification Requirements The initial set of certification criteria adopted by ONC specify the capabilities, standards, and implementation specifications required of certified EHR technology in order to support EPs and EHs achievement of the proposed Stage 1 meaningful use criteria under the incentive programs. As defined by ONC, a standard is a technical, functional, or performance-based rule, condition, requirement or specification that stipulates instructions, fields, codes, data, materials, characteristics. Implementation specifications are specific requirements for implementing a standard and certification criteria are criteria to establish that technology meets standards and implementation specifications. HEALTH IT LAW & INDUSTRY REPORT ISSN BNA
4 4 ONC adopts certification criteria in support of each of the Stage 1 meaningful use objectives included in CMS s NPRM. The certification criteria associated with the objective, Incorporate clinical lab-test results into EHR as structured data, for example, include the following: ο Electronically receive clinical laboratory test results in a structured format and display such results in human readable format. ο Electronically display in human readable format any clinical laboratory tests that have been received with LOINC codes. ο Electronically display all the information required in a test report under the CLIA regulations. ο Enable a user to electronically update a patient s record based upon received laboratory test results. ONC adopted standards in the following four categories: ο Vocabulary Standards (standardized nomenclature and code sets used to describe clinical problems and procedures, medications, and allergies); ο Content Exchange Standards (standards used to share clinical information such as clinical summaries, prescriptions, and structured electronic documents); ο Transport Standards (standards used to establish a common, predictable, secure communication protocol between systems); ο Privacy and Security Standards (authentication, access control, transmission security) which relate to and span across all other types of standards). ONC chose to adopt alternative standards for certain purposes and has limited the adoption of specific vocabulary standards in this initial set to a few instances. The standards adopted by ONC will allow virtually all of the existing EHR products of major vendors to qualify as certified EHR technology. ONC expects that, to enhance interoperability and support later stages of meaningful use, it will be essential that the agency adopt specific standards, vocabularies and codes sets in the future. Stating that it does not believe that sufficiently mature implementation specifications exist to adopt to support meaningful use during Stage 1, ONC adopts only two implementation specifications: s For quality reporting: The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative Measure Specifications Manual for Claims and Registry. s For eligibility transactions for health plans: Phase 1 of the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE). ONC seeks public comment as to whether there are implementation specifications that are industry-tested, widely-used and/or would not present a significant burden if adopted. Key Questions to Evaluate the NPRM and IFC Against HITECH s Goals ONC has described its adoption of standards and certification criteria as pragmatic yet forward looking, noting that while well-defined data and technical standards are the foundation for interoperability between systems, a high level of nationwide interoperability will take time and will occur at varying rates. CMS s staged meaningful use requirements appear to have been the subject of the same strategy. Feedback on the NPRM and IFC has begun to flow. Different stakeholders have different perspectives about whether providers will be able to meet the proposed meaningful use criteria, and whether the regulations do enough to move the health care system toward true interoperability and patient-centeredness. While this article does not address incentive program eligibility, one key question that has emerged relates to the NPRM s proposed definition of hospital-based physicians, which are ineligible for incentives. CMS proposes to include all physicians who furnish at least 90 percent of services in an inpatient or outpatient hospital setting. Stakeholders have begun asking whether this could potentially exclude broad swaths of health care providers, including primary care practitioners who practice in hospital-based outpatient clinics and members of faculty practice plans of academic medical centers. Some stakeholders have questioned whether the NPRM overestimates the ability of current systems to support providers as they seek to integrate ambitious new EHR capabilities into their clinical routines and daily work flows. Some have also questioned whether the regulations underestimate the potential of new forms of HIE, instead perpetuating use of point-to-point interfaces, which could lead to mounting integration costs as requirements for meaningful use become more stringent. Many of the proposed meaningful use requirements place substantial reliance on the inherent capabilities of the certified EHR itself. Under the NPRM, providers can achieve some of these measures with relatively little effort; an EP or EH need only enable the relevant EHR capability. For other measures, the provider must use the capability and quantify this use. For all the measures in this category, CMS assumes there is not a reliance on the electronic exchange of information. For example, for the Stage 1 Objective, Maintain Active Medication List, CMS sets as the corresponding measure the following: At least 80 percent of all unique patients seen by the eligible professional or admitted by the eligible hospital have at least one entry (or an indication of none if the patient is not currently prescribed any medication) recorded in structured data. Other Stage 1 measures with similar use/ quantification requirements include those pertaining to computer order entry, problem lists, active medication allergy lists, recorded demographics, and recorded and charted vital signs. The NPRM requires high thresholds for utilization of many of these functionalities. For each of the 10 objectives that CMS cites as relying solely on a capability included as part of certified EHR technology, the required utilization threshold for the associated measure is 80 percent. Though CMS views 80 percent thresholds as representing reasonable progress toward full compliance, while still allowing sufficient flexibility to accommodate technical and other hindrances, the result could be that providers may not be able reach these levels without significant changes in existing workflows and development of internal compliance programs. Other Stage 1 meaningful use measures contemplate a provider s use of certified EHR technology to effect the electronic exchange of information from third party data sources. For example, for the Stage 1 objective, COPYRIGHT 2010 BY THE BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS, INC. HITR ISSN
5 5 Incorporate Clinical Lab-Test Results into EHR as Structured Data, the corresponding measure is the following: At least 50 percent of all clinical laboratory results ordered by the eligible professional or by an authorized provider of the eligible hospital... whose results are in either... a positive/negative or numerical format are incorporated in certified EHR technology as structured data. Other Stage 1 measures with similar information exchange requirements include those pertaining to e-prescribing and insurance eligibility and claims. The NPRM also requires providers to conduct isolated, onetime tests of an EHR s capability to exchange clinical and certain other types of information, such as problem lists, medication lists, allergies and diagnostic test results among providers of care and patient authorized entities electronically. Most of the measures in this category also have very high exchange thresholds (75 percent to 80 percent) that may be out of line with the current state of practice. In 2008, the overall rate of prescriptions routed electronically, as a percentage of prescriptions eligible for electronic routing, was just 6.6 percent. 4 The effect of such high Stage 1 thresholds could encourage the establishment of multiple, expensive pointto-point connections to laboratories and e-prescribing hubs. While there is nothing in the NPRM that prevents regional or state-based HIE initiatives from creating lower cost and more far reaching platforms for exchanging pharmacy and lab data, the success of these early public-private exchange efforts could be significantly impeded by market confusion resulting from the NPRM. In sum, the regulations proceed from a worldview about how EHR and HIE markets can, will, and should develop. Whether the world evolves in line with this view will be the key determinant of whether the NPRM and IFC enable achievement of HITECH s goal for a patient-centered health care system. 4 SureScripts. National Progress Report on E-Prescribing HEALTH IT LAW & INDUSTRY REPORT ISSN BNA
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