fsgl wrote on Sunday, January 10, 2016:
You are most welcome.
More often than not, it is a learning experience for myself as well, when visiting the CMS website; because they’ve changed things yet again.
Have a look at this attestation guide. Perhaps it will satisfy some of the curiosity about the nuts & bolts of attestation. An analogous Wiki article will be written for the 2014 Edition.
You are correct that attestation requirements pale in comparison to certification criteria. Specifically the criteria for electronic reporting of Clinical Quality Measures drove the developers crazy.
The Completion Barometer is a more accurate record of work accomplished. Unfinished is g2; while a8, b5, c1, c2, c3, f2, g1 need testing with Infogard.
In August 2014 CMS promulgated the Flexibility Rule, whereby attesters could use either the 2011 or the 2014 Edition. Those of us who attested, used the old Certification ID from the prior years for the 2011 Edition.