Recently, legislation has been introduced into the House of Representatives to ensure that multi-campus hospitals which adopt clinical decision support systems and meet the appropriate standards for meaningful use of EMR will receive incentive payments commensurate with the number of sites into which they're implementing these HIT systems.
Under the watchful eye of Rep. Zack Space (D-Ohio), this legislation strives to correct several of the inequities in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 concerning hospital incentives. The original act treats all hospitals and hospital systems identically and provides only one payment per hospital/system. This bill will address the issues surrounding higher incremental implementation and training costs for multi-site health systems and afford them opportunities for multiple incentive payouts on a per-site basis.
What do you think? Should multi-campus hospitals receive additional payments based on the number of sites?
Under the watchful eye of Rep. Zack Space (D-Ohio), this legislation strives to correct several of the inequities in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 concerning hospital incentives. The original act treats all hospitals and hospital systems identically and provides only one payment per hospital/system. This bill will address the issues surrounding higher incremental implementation and training costs for multi-site health systems and afford them opportunities for multiple incentive payouts on a per-site basis.
What do you think? Should multi-campus hospitals receive additional payments based on the number of sites?
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