Medicare docs can get bonuses for using EHRs and e-prescribing in 2008 | GHIT | 11.5.07
For the first time, the Medicare program will pay bonuses to doctors and other health care providers for using electronic health records and e-prescribing in 2008.
Use of the two technologies are among 119 quality measures that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services listed in an official notice of its payment rules for the coming year.
To qualify for a bonus of as much as 1.5 percent of their Medicare fees, doctors can report their compliance with as many as three of the 119 measures. A pool of $1.35 billion will be available to pay incentives next year.