Do they qualify as eligible Medicare outpatient providers?
Depends on whether the clinic or the hospital provides the facilities or the equipment. Q: Is an eligible hospital is only an acute care facility or does it include other types of facilities, such as rehabilitation facilities? A: CMS uses the “CCN” – the CMS certification number assigned to each hospital – to assess whether or not a hospital is eligible. Q: If a hospital ER is using CPOE for all orders, does it qualify for the 10% of CPOE for a hospital? A: The ER is counted as outpatient, so no, it will not fulfill the 10% CPOE requirement for an inpatient facility. (HIMSS waffled a bit on this during their webinar but finally came to this conclusion.) Q: On the hospital side, must the physician enter the CPOE order directly? Or may they have their MA do the entry under their authority? A: The reg states “directly”. Q: If only 10% of the hospital’s staff is using the certified system, and the rest are still paper-based, would this satisfy the CPOE requirement? A: The requirement is th
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- Do they qualify as eligible Medicare outpatient providers?
