“Puerto Rico Medicaid Incentive Program Registration & Attestation website is now open

The PSM-HITREC informs our provider’s and hospital in Puerto Rico that the Puerto Rico State Level Registry (PR-SLR) is open to apply for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Medicaid E.H.R. Incentives.

The PR-SLR can be accessed at http://pr.arraincentive.com/

The Providers and Eligible Hospitals' Checklist to Getting Started: 

[  ]  Computer

[  ]  Access to the Internet

[  ]  Complete the CMS EHR Incentive Program Registration

[  ]  Contact name, phone and email address

[  ]  Pen and pad to write down created username and password

[  ]  Printer and Scanner or Right Fax

[  ]  Optimal Web browser to use is Internet Explorer 8.0 and above

There are some REQUIRED DOCUMENTS AND KEY INFORMATION for the Providers and Eligible Hospitals:

[  ]  EPs and EHs Step 1 - Electronic copy of License, Good Faith Certification or Certification ID

[  ]  EPs and EHs Step 2 - Know the 90 Day Representative Period in the previous calendar year you would like to use

[  ]  EPs Step 2 - Know the unique Total and Medicaid Patient Encounter for the 90 day period you selected; 1 encounter is a unique patient visit per day

[  ]  EPs Step 2 - Electronic copy of practice management report for the 90 day period identified

[  ]  EHs Step 2 - Know the total discharges for the full hospital fiscal year and total patient bed days for a full hospital fiscal year to calculate average length of stay

[  ]  EHs Step 2 - Know the Total and Medicaid Discharge data for the 90 day period identified

[  ]  EHs only - Electronic copy of the 4 years of cost report data and Hospital Calculation worksheet

[  ]  Contract for E.H.R. Incentive software signed by the provider and the E.H.R. vendor and dated. (It is required to attach this document to Step 3a)

 LINKS TO BE FAMILIAR WITH:

[  ]  Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Registration https://ehrincentives.cms.gov/hitech/login.action

[  ]  Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) (http://oncchpl.force.comlehrcert)

You can get a copy of this checklist here.

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