So the question remains, can an EP who has already attested to Stage 1 for two or three years still use the 2011 criteria to attest in 2014 for a third or fourth year? Stage 2 is looking pretty impossible for me. I am quite rural and to get interface for lab or X-ray and meet the %age criteria is probably pretty impossible. It seems awful expensive to try to get interfaces for all of the different facilities used by my patients who reside in 71 different communities in 21 different states. Is the final rule yet available? I understand that if I attested for last year, I could do nothing and not be penalized. Why is this so complicated....like why race and ethnicity? Someone please help me understand how that nuance is useful? I'm just a country bumpkin doctor trying to take care of patients and stay afloat.
Nancy
