tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 22

ELECTRONIC RECORDS: CMS Begins To Distribute Millions Earmarked For EHRs

Get your electronic health record in place so you can benefit from government bonuses. Earlier this year, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, announced that the government would appropriate over a billion dollars in grants to help healthcare providers implement electronic health records (EHRs), and it didn’t take long for the first awards to be distributed. On Sept. 29, 2009, HHS announced that it had awarded $27.8 million to health center-controlled networks and large health centers to implement EHRs and other health information technology initiatives. The goal of the funding is to improve productivity...

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