§495.316 State monitoring and reporting regarding activities required to receive an incentive payment.
(a) Subject to §495.332 the State is responsible for tracking and verifying the activities necessary for a Medicaid EP or eligible hospital to receive an incentive payment for each payment year, as described in §495.314.
(b) Subject to §495.332, the State must submit a State Medicaid HIT Plan to CMS that includes—
(1) A detailed plan for monitoring, verifying and periodic auditing of the requirements for receiving incentive payments, as described in §495.314; and
(2) A description of the how the State will collect and report on provider meaningful use of certified EHR technology.
(c) Subject to §495.332 and §495.352 the State is required to submit to CMS annual reports on the following:
(1) Provider adoption, implementation, or upgrade of certified EHR technology activities and payments; and
(2) Aggregated, de-identified meaningful use data.
(d) (1) The annual report described in paragraph (c) of this section must include, but is not limited to the following:
(i) The number, type, and practice location(s) of providers who qualified for an incentive payment on the basis of having adopted, implemented, or upgraded certified EHR technology.
(ii) Aggregated data tables representing the provider adoption, implementation, or upgrade of certified EHR technology.
(iii) The number, type, and practice location(s) of providers who qualified for an incentive payment on the basis of demonstrating that they are meaningful users of certified EHR technology;
(iv) Aggregated data tables representing the provider’s clinical quality measures data; and
(v) A description and quantitative data on how its incentive payment program addressed individuals with unique needs such as children.
(2) Subject to §495.332, The State may propose a revised definition of meaningful use of certified EHR technology, subject to CMS prior approval, but only with respect to the following objectives:
(i) Generate lists of patients by specific conditions to use for quality improvement, reduction of disparities, research or outreach.
(ii) Capability to submit electronic data to immunization registries or immunization information systems and actual submission in accordance with applicable law and practice.
(iii) Capability to provide electronic submission of reportable (as required by State or local law) lab results to public health agencies and actual submission in accordance with applicable law and practice; and
(iv) Capability to provide electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies and actual transmission in accordance with applicable law and practice.
(e) State failure to submit the required reports to CMS may result in discontinued or disallowed funding.
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