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Attestation Patterns among Medicare Professionals who First Attested to Meaningful Use in 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Approximately 58k health care professionals attested to meaningful use of a certified EHR in 2011 through the Medicare EHR Incentive program. As of May 2014, 9 in 10 providers who attested to Meaningful Use in 2011 attested again in a following year. Of the 16% of providers that skipped their second year (2012), 43% returned to the program in 2013. 9% of the initial cohort skipped both 2012 and 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Public Use File used for this analysis only includes Medicare attestations and therefore does not capture instances where a health care professional switched from the Medicare program to the Medicaid program. Up to an estimated 1% of providers may be noted as ‘skipping’ a year when in fact they switched from Medicare to Medicaid. Providers may also skip a year because they are no longer eligible for the program due to retirement, departure from active or ambulatory care practice, or other reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 in 10 providers who attested to Meaningful Use in 2011 attested again in a following year. 43% of those providers who skipped Meaningful Use in 2012 returned to the program in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attestation Patterns, 2011-2013<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2011 (Year 1)<\/strong><\/th>58k<\/td><\/tr>
2012 (Year 2)<\/strong><\/th>49k<\/td><\/tr>
% Skipped Year 2<\/th>16%<\/td><\/tr>
2013 (Year 3)<\/strong><\/th>47k<\/td><\/tr>
% of Those Providers that Skipped Year 2 and then Returned for Year 3<\/th>43%<\/td><\/tr>
% Skipped Year 3<\/th>19%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Attestation Patterns among Medicare Professionals who First Attested to Meaningful Use in 2011 Approximately 58k […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_selected_menu":"","_show_breadcrumbs":"true","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"topics":[126,86,88,87],"class_list":["post-165491","quick-stat","type-quick-stat","status-publish","hentry","topics-data","topics-historical-programs","topics-hitech-programs","topics-meaningful-use-macra"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMedicare EHR Incentive Program Attestation Patterns - ONC Health IT Research & Analysis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Health IT Research and Analysis provides access to datasets, analysis, and reporting that monitor health information technology trends and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT programs and policies.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/quickstats\/medicare-ehr-incentive-program-attestation-patterns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Medicare EHR Incentive Program Attestation Patterns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Health IT Research and Analysis provides access to datasets, analysis, and reporting that monitor health information technology trends and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT programs and policies.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/quickstats\/medicare-ehr-incentive-program-attestation-patterns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ONC Health IT Research & Analysis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-18T22:06:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/QS-32-Medicare-Professional-Stage-One-Attestation-Cohort-2011.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"877\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"408\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthit.gov\\\/data\\\/quickstats\\\/medicare-ehr-incentive-program-attestation-patterns\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthit.gov\\\/data\\\/quickstats\\\/medicare-ehr-incentive-program-attestation-patterns\\\/\",\"name\":\"Medicare EHR Incentive Program Attestation Patterns - 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