Physician reimbursement is a problem in California too, but this 5 year pilot program appears to be a step in the right direction, at lease somewhere along the line the physicians are getting subsidized for their efforts. Medical practices have all the burden of responsibility, but yet have been the last to see a return on investment, strictly talking from the side of managing a practice. The incentives here offer up to $58,000 per physician or $290,000 for a practice to cover cost of buying, implementing, training, etc. to transition to electronic records. BD
BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Maryland doctors who swap paper for electronic medical records will be the first in the nation to be reimbursed under a federal pilot program.
“While the number of electronic health records around the country has proliferated, there’s been a reluctance among small- to medium-sized practices to embrace them,” Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt told a group of physicians Tuesday at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
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