{"id":1310,"date":"2013-10-11T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:44:32","slug":"infographics-no-need-to-implement-ehr-just-pay-penalties-and-ravage-your-practice-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/infographics-no-need-to-implement-ehr-just-pay-penalties-and-ravage-your-practice-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographics : No Need to Implement EHR \u2013 Just Pay Penalties and Ravage Your Practice Business !"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class=\"section no\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-12 have-padding\"><div class=\"text-block \" ><div class=\"simple-text \"><h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><b>The U.S. Government is Stringent on its EHR Policy<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><strong><a title=\"Technology for an Accountable Care Organisation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/technology-for-accountable-care-organizations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Affordable Care Act (ACA)<\/a>,<\/strong> the healthcare reform to renovate the U.S. healthcare <\/em>industry kicks into effect on January 1, 2014 \u2013 so that many changes including the implementation of electronic health records (EHR) system will be made mandatory and any breach of the law calls for penalties to the healthcare providers.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #111\"><b>Medicare\u2019s Penalties \u2013 the Price Tag for EHR Ignorance<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Medicare, the U.S government\u2019s federal insurance program warns the providers for <a title=\"Meaningful use of EHR for a better practice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/the-numbers-for-hipaa-compliance-and-mu-readiness-are-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meaningful use of EHR<\/a> in their facility. Infringements in the meaningful use policy would culminate in penalization&#8217;s to the physicians:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)<\/strong> \u2013 CPOE or e-prescribing system (for communicating the orders during the EHR reporting period) is made obligatory by Medicare and it charges 0.5% in 2014 for the providers who do not generate at least 10 e-Prescriptions in 2013. Furthermore, the penalty rises up to 3% over the subsequent years, if the providers fail to implement CPOE system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Electronic Health Records (EHRs)<\/strong> \u2013 According to Medicare, the eligible professionals (EPs) must install and <a title=\"Implement a better EHR system from BillingParadise\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/winning-move-for-better-ehr-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implement an authenticated EHR system<\/a> by 2015 or else they will be penalized from 1% onwards with up to 5% annual rise in penalty as per the \u201c<strong>Medicare physician fee adjustment schedule<\/strong>\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)<\/strong> \u2013 This <a title=\"Physician Quality Reporting System\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/thumbs-up-for-pqrs-the-new-generation-catalyser-for-enhanced-patient-care-and-maximized-physicians-revenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PQRS assessment reporting tool<\/a> does not exactly necessitate an EHR system but in reality it will be nigh on unfeasible. Physicians, doctors\u2019 groups and other EPs can still completely take part in PQRS\u00a0for 2013 and receive incentive payments, and evade the penalty, by reporting the requisite measures via claims, registry, or certified EHR. Even smaller practices have time until 2015 to begin PQRS reporting and then after they will be penalized beginning in 2017, by 2% &#8211; if they fail to adopt PQRS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #111\"><b>The Changing Velocity in EHR Espousal <\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the report of Department of <strong>Health and Human Services (HHS)<\/strong>, there is a substantial improvement in the no. of physicians who have implemented EHR systems and the percent goes beyond <strong>50 as compared to 17 percent in 2008<\/strong>. Mostly, this variation is driven by two factors: the trepidation for healthcare acts\u2019 penalties and the want for incentives.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #111\"><b>Choosing an Ideal EHR<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Selecting a perfect, authenticated EHR for your practice is the crucial step in EHR implementation and the journey towards meaningful use accomplishment. Here are the recommendations for selecting a perfect EHR that fits well with your practice:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #111\"><b><i>Vital Features:<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>ONC\u2010ATCB Certification<\/li>\n<li>HIPAA 5010 privacy and security compliant<\/li>\n<li>Interoperable and integrated<\/li>\n<li>HL7 standard compatibility<\/li>\n<li>Specialty-specific modules<\/li>\n<li>Customizable system<\/li>\n<li>Encryption Support with <strong>Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Meaningful use reporting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #111\"><b><i>Additional Features:<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>24&#215;7 go-live support<\/li>\n<li>Free Monthly Subscription<\/li>\n<li>No hidden costs<\/li>\n<li>Robust market reputation<\/li>\n<li>Upgrading with Periodical Policy Updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><b>BillingParadise is always glad to prop up your practice business against the impediments in Healthcare IT technology.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Government is Stringent on its EHR Policy Affordable Care Act (ACA), the healthcare reform to renovate the U.S. healthcare industry kicks into effect on January 1, 2014 \u2013 so that many changes including the implementation of electronic health records (EHR) system will be made mandatory and any breach of the law calls for [...]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software"],"modified_by":"kiruthika","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450747,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/450747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}