Hi Gwendolyn,
I've attested to MU for three consecutive years: 2011, '12, and today I attested to '13.
While there is significant button clicking which slows down work flow a little, a good multi-tasker can still have truly meaningful visits w/ patients despite the decreased efficiency of clicking a million buttons a day to get MU attestation.
The bulk of the money is in the first three years: $18K, $12K, $8K.
$38K isn't chump change for my solo office, that's why I went for it and succeeded. I think it's worth it for stage 1.
However the reason why I'm not attesting to Stage 2 or 3 is the exponential effort to comply with decreasing reward ($4K and $2K for years 4 & 5). I'm withdrawing from Medicare effective Jan 1, 2014 so as to avoid the MU and PQRS penalties for non-reporting.
sincerely,
Adam
