Health Care Law Blog
It is time for hospitals and physicians to start using electronic health records ("EHR"). It is particularly important if hospitals or physicians want to take advantage of the 2011 Medicare incentive payments, since important deadlines are quickly approaching.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology ("ONC") announced that the first electronic health record ("EHR") incentive payments were going to be made in mid-May to providers who had successfully attested to having met "meaningful use" and all of the other program requirements. The maximum payment that a Medicare provider in the EHR program can receive in 2011 for his or her first year of participation is $18,000. Incentive payments for eligible hospitals begin at $2 million.
