Under the Medicare Incentive Program for Implementation of EHR, Eligible

question 34

Multiple Choice

Under the Medicare incentive program for implementation of EHR, eligible providers will

• A) earn incentive payments for up to 4 years if they have demonstrated MU.
• B) earn incentive payments for up to 10 years if they have demonstrated MU.
• C) be penalized through payment adjustments starting in 2013 if they have not demonstrated MU.
• D) be penalized through payment adjustments starting in 2015 if they have not demonstrated MU.

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Slavery

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Emancipation Proclamation

A historic executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declaring the freedom of all enslaved people in Confederate states during the American Civil War.

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