Ending Meaningful Use tops CMS’s ‘punch list’ in 2016

As part of a new streamlined regulatory approach in 2016, “The Meaningful Use program, as it has existed, will now be effectively over and replaced with something better,” Andy Slavitt, CMS acting administrator, said at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.In the coming year, the new central focus of the organization will be to set policy and act as a regulator to make sure the laws of Congress and CMS rules advance the interests of consumers and taxpayers; provide service to beneficiaries, provide technical support to health care providers and partner with states and commercial health plans to deliver CMS programs; and operate as a market signaler, Slavitt said, according to a CMS transcript of the talk.