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Health Information Technology Improvements
$17 billion was included to improve investments and incentives through Medicare and Medicaid to ensure widespread adoption and use of interoperable health information technology (HIT).

Administrator: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Description: Provides incentives for the early adoption and use of interoperable HIT to Medicare and Medicaid providers and penalties in future years for providers not demonstrating meaningful use of Electronic Health Records.

Purpose: Provides eligible professionals who show meaningful use of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) in 2011 or 2012 with incentive payments of $18,000 in the first year. Payment adjustments for eligible professionals not demonstrating meaningful use of an EHR would begin in 2015. Provides eligible hospitals (including Critical Access Hospitals) with incentive payments starting in Fiscal Year 2011 and payments adjustments for hospitals not demonstrating meaningful use of an EHR in Fiscal Year 2015.

Website: www.cms.hhs.gov
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/RegionalOffices/

Phone:1-800-MEDICARE
(404) 562-7150 (Regional CMS Office for New Mexico)