Proposed Requirements for the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Medicaid Incentive Payment Program
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced a proposed rule to implement the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) that provide incentive payments for the meaningful use of certified EHR technology. The Medicare EHR incentive program will provide incentive payments to eligible professionals (EP), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that are meaningful users of certified EHRs. The Medicaid EHR incentive program will provide initial incentive payments to EPs and hospitals for efforts to adopt, implement, upgrade or meaningfully use certified EHR technology or for meaningful use, and incentive payments in subsequent years for meaningful use.
This fact sheet summarizes provisions in the proposed rule affecting state Medicaid programs and Medicaid providers.
