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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><strong>EHR Regulatory Relief Act</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal">This bill requires the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a 90-day performance period with respect to determining whether an eligible professional or hospital is a meaningful electronic health record (EHR) user. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal">Additionally, the bill: (1)&nbsp;requires the CMS to consider specified findings and recommendations of the&nbsp;Government Accountability Office with respect to assessing&nbsp;whether an eligible professional is a meaningful EHR user, (2)&nbsp;allows the CMS to determine that an eligible hospital is a meaningful EHR user if the hospital meets a specified percentage of the applicable measures established by the CMS, and (3)&nbsp;extends the applicability of the hardship exception with respect to meaningful EHR use.</p>]]></text>
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        <title>A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a 90-day period for the determination of whether a MIPS eligible professional or eligible hospital is a meaningful EHR user and to remove the all-or-nothing approach to meaningful use, and for other purposes.</title>
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