{"id":6299,"date":"2017-03-29T08:29:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2017-03-29T08:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:30:34","slug":"ama-led-letter-asks-seema-verma-to-establish-administrative-burden-exemption-for-2016-meaningful-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6299","title":{"rendered":"AMA-led letter asks Seema Verma to establish &#8216;administrative burden&#8217; exemption for 2016 Meaningful Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jessica Kim Cohen for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>In a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/searchlf.ama-assn.org\/letter\/documentDownload?uri=%2Funstructured%2Fbinary%2Fletter%2FLETTERS%2F2017-03-21_Verma-Medicare-quality-reporting-programs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>dated March 21, almost 90 medical societies and state associations asked CMS Administrator Seema Verma to address challenges with Meaningful Use requirements. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/ama-led-letter-asks-seema-verma-to-establish-administrative-burden-exemption-for-2016-meaningful-use.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jessica Kim Cohen for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) In a\u00a0letter\u00a0dated March 21, almost 90 medical societies and state associations asked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}