You are the Director of Coding and Billing at a large group practice. The Practice Manager stops by your office on his way to a planning meeting to ask about the timeline for complying with HITECH requirements to adopt meaningful use EHR technology. You reply that the incentives began in 2011 and will end in 2014. You remind him that by 2015, sanctions for noncompliance will appear in the form of:

You are the Director of Coding and Billing at a large group practice. The Practice Manager stops by your office on his way to a planning meeting to ask about the timeline for complying with HITECH requirements to adopt meaningful use EHR technology. You reply that the incentives began in 2011 and will end in 2014. You remind him that by 2015, sanctions for noncompliance will appear in the form of:

You are the Director of Coding and Billing at a large group practice. The Practice Manager stops by your office on his way to a planning meeting to ask about the timeline for complying with HITECH requirements to adopt meaningful use EHR technology. You reply that the incentives began in 2011 and will end in 2014. You remind him that by 2015, sanctions for noncompliance will appear in the form of:



A. Downward adjustments to Medicare reimbursement.
B. The withdrawal of permission to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients
C. A mandatory action plan for implementing a meaningful use EHR.
D. Monetary fines up to $100,000




Answer: A


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