Ketan,

have you investigated your own state's CMS Regional Extension Center (REC)?

go here to check it out http://www.ilhitrec.org/ilhitrec/ , and I would strongly suggest calling them and speaking to them on the phone to querry their support services. These are afforded under the HITEC Act and are free in most (or all) states.

For example, I've attested to MU successfully in 2011 and 2012. Each year in order to meet this goal the Maine REC asked us to print a patient's CCD file in HTML format. Then they asked us to email that file to them. Then they sent me an email confirming receipt of this file. This satisfies the requirement for attesting to 2012 and should still fulfill the 2013 (stage 1) requirements.

Whether you email this information to a colleague or to your state's REC, GET A CONFIRMATION AND PRINT IT AND RETAIN IT FOR YOUR RECORDS IN THE EVENT YOU SUSTAIN A MEANINGFUL USE AUDIT. In the event you are not aware, CMS has conducted thousands of audits of Elligible Providers (EP's) MU Attestations, and if your records can't show proof of each requirement to their satisfaction, you could end up paying back the money plus fines and penalties. Please be careful, many are not careful and get away with it. Those who aren't careful and sustain audit, end up wishing they kept better records of their attestation.


Adam Lauer, DO (solo FP)
Twin City Family Medicine
Brewer, ME