{"id":245347,"date":"2011-01-11T02:52:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T02:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/cms-issues-first-ehr-payments\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T02:52:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T02:52:49","slug":"cms-issues-first-ehr-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/pathology\/cms-issues-first-ehr-payments.php","title":{"rendered":"CMS issues first EHR payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p>Just days after the CMS opened registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health-record incentive programs, the first provider payments have been issued.<\/p><p>The state of Kentucky processed a $2.86 million payment to the University of Kentucky Healthcare, amounting to one-third of total payments for the hospital's participation in the Medicaid EHR incentive program. And Oklahoma issued payments to two physicians at the Gastorf Family Clinic of Durant, Okla., for $21,250 each, for having adopted certified EHR systems, also under the Medicaid incentive program.<\/p><p>Funding for the incentive payments programs was made available through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.gov\/EHRIncentivePrograms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Registration for the program <\/a>opened Jan. 3. - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tissuepathology.com\/weblog\/rvesely@modernhealthcare.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Vesely<\/a><\/p><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/DigitalPathologyBlog?a=8meADguNnoI:BVDJ8DJyWqo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cb984_DigitalPathologyBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/DigitalPathologyBlog?a=8meADguNnoI:BVDJ8DJyWqo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cb984_DigitalPathologyBlog?i=8meADguNnoI:BVDJ8DJyWqo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; 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