Have You Applied for $44000 Incentive?
As per US government policy, physicians, who are using a certified EHR, may receive up to $44,000 over 2011 to 2014. Whereas, Medicaid Incentives will also be available to all non-hospital based clinicians. Practices that are not actively using and reporting with a certified EHR will have their Medicare fee schedule reduced by 1% in 2015, 2% in 2016 and 3% in 2017.
Therefore, it has become mandatory for US physicians to use a Meaningful Use Certified EHR. EHR, that is an Electronic Health Record, can be defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients. Doctors will have all the data of patients recorded electronically. There will not be any hassle to manage files and also to search the data of patients visited a long time ago. Each patient is just at a distance of a click and the physicians can easily have the access to the entire record.
As per US government policy, physicians, who are using a certified EHR, may receive up to $44,000 over 2011 to 2014. Whereas, Medicaid Incentives will also be available to all non-hospital based clinicians. Practices that are not actively using and reporting with a certified EHR will have their Medicare fee schedule reduced by 1% in 2015, 2% in 2016 and 3% in 2017.
Therefore, it has become mandatory for US physicians to use a Meaningful Use Certified EHR. EHR, that is an Electronic Health Record, can be defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients. Doctors will have all the data of patients recorded electronically. There will not be any hassle to manage files and also to search the data of patients visited a long time ago. Each patient is just at a distance of a click and the physicians can easily have the access to the entire record.
