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Healthcare Professional Associations Respond to New CMS Proposal for MD Reporting

Healthcare Informatics: By Wednesday evening, Apr. 27, the leaders of U.S. healthcare professional associations had begun making public statements regarding the announcement on Wednesday by federal healthcare officials that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is introducing a new program that will replace the meaningful use program under the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act, for physicians participating in the Medicare program, with a new program, called Advancing Care Information (ACI). That new program was introduced on Wednesday as a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under the terms of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).

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