The GAO has issued a report entitled, “Electronic Health Records: First Year of CMS’s Incentive Programs Shows Opportunities to Improve Processes to Verify Providers Met Requirements.” According to the GAO, CMS has taken a number of steps to assess and mitigate the risk of improper payments under the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records (EHR) programs, but more can be done to improve the effectiveness of processes to verify whether providers meet program requirements. The GAO recommends that CMS: establish time frames for expeditiously evaluating the agency’s audit strategy for the Medicare EHR program; evaluate whether more prepayment verifications are needed to determine provider eligibility for payments; collect additional information from Medicare providers during attestation; and offer states the option of having CMS collect meaningful use attestations from Medicaid providers.