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1.29.2015 Meaningful Use of Health IT Not all providers will have the required Medi-Cal population to attest to the State of California’s Meaningful Use incentive program. This change to the MUHIT domain may disqualify pediatricians who are meeting the Meaningful Use measures with the EHR. Might POs provide supplemental information for pediatricians who were unable to attest to Meaningful Use but are meeting Meaningful Use measure specifications?

In response to public comments received, the Technical Measurement Committee (TMC) considered that pediatricians who do not take Medi-Cal may not be eligible for incentive payments from the State of California or CMS. The TMC concluded that medical groups would have similar distributions of pediatricians.
We have received several questions about this policy; it is too late to change it for the MY 2014 measurement year, but staff will bring the issue to the committees again.  IHA’s mission is to promote quality improvement and affordability of health care for all Californians, including the 30% of Californians who are covered by Medi-Cal. As a result, staff feel that it is not unreasonable that pediatricians who do not see the required threshold of Medi-Cal patients will not qualify for the numerator in the MUHIT survey. Ultimately, a PO’s payor mix will have implications for performance measurement and payment- sometimes resulting in higher scores and payments, and other times not.

ALL 2014