EHR Incentive Payments

Overview

Beginning in 2011, Eligible Hospitals and Eligible Professionals have the opportunity to receive Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive payments from State Medicaid agencies if they adopt, implement, or upgrade to certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology or from Medicare if they demonstrate Meaningful Use of certified EHR technology.

Eligible Hospitals and Eligible Professionals that use certified EHR technology and can manage patient care and public/population health in a “meaningful way,” including ordering medications, keeping updated problem lists for patients, checking for drug interactions, recording and tracking vital signs, generating an electronic copy of medical information for a patient, recording and reporting quality measures, and having the ability to electronically exchange data with other providers may receive incentive payments.

Eligible Hospitals and Eligible Professionals must register and prove (attest) that they have adopted or meaningfully used certified EHR technology and meet all the eligibility requirements before they can receive EHR incentive payments from Medicaid or Medicare (or both for some hospitals).