When I attested to our organization’s ability to meaningfully use electronic health records on April 18, 2011, I thought the really hard part of Phase I was behind me. Talking to colleagues who were at prospective payment system hospitals, their payment process was simple; as soon as they attested for meaningful use, the CMS site locked them for payment, did the calculations of what they were entitled to receive, and three to four weeks later, they had a check.

For a critical-access hospital, it is “Not so fast, Grasshopper.”

To read the rest of Stephen Stewart’s, CIO of Henry County Health Center in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, article click here.