Attestation

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The act of attestation is presenting information in support of the truth or accuracy of a claim. This term is most commonly known in the health care industry as the process of submitting data for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Meaningful Use incentive program. In this process, the physician or physician's employee must enter numerators and denominators for many of the measures and also indicate completion of other measures not met by a specific ratio. The data entered is obtained by reports or dashboards offered by the health care organization's electronic health record (EHR) system. The clinician is not required to submit these reports along with their numerator and denominator data, so they are expected to submit data on the contingency that it is accurate. This is why the term attestation best defines this process; a process where data is presented with the expectation that it is accurately supporting the claim.