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Office of Medical Assistance Programs Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program

Office of Medical Assistance Programs Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. Matt McGeorge. Agenda. Program Background Summary of Program Activity Program Goals Questions. Key Differences Between Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Eligibility: Who can Participate?.

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Office of Medical Assistance Programs Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program

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  1. Office of Medical Assistance Programs Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program Matt McGeorge

  2. Agenda • Program Background • Summary of Program Activity • Program Goals • Questions

  3. Key Differences Between Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs

  4. Eligibility: Who can Participate? • Practitioners must be licensed and are within the scope of practice defined under State law • Medicaid eligible professionals may not be hospital-based. A Medicaid EP is considered hospital-based if 90 percent or more of the EP's services are performed in a hospital inpatient or emergency room setting.

  5. Amounts available to providers • First payment year can be for adoption, implementation, upgrade • Payments do not have to be in consecutive years and amounts below are only an estimate of maximum payments • Pediatricians who do not meet the 30 percent threshold would receive no more than $14,167 in year one and $5,667 in subsequent years for a total of $42,500

  6. Application Process Registration begins at the CMS R&A website Information sent to MAPIR and EP/EH can begin application

  7. MA HIT Website www.pamahealthit.org

  8. MA HIT ListServ http://listserv.dpw.state.pa.us/ma-health-it-initiative.html

  9. PA Reach – East & West www.pareacheast.org www.pareachwest.org

  10. National Incentive Payments

  11. Commonwealth Incentive Payments

  12. Program Goals

  13. Questions?

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