Revenue Cycle Management News: Six More States Launch Medicaid Electronic Health Record Payment Programs
From: www.EMRDailyNews.com
By: Steve Campbell
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS) is
reporting that six more states have launched programs to register providers for Medicaid electronic health-record incentive payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This brings the total number of active states to 39, and the total number of states making payments under the program to 23.
The six new states are:
- Arkansas
- Delaware
- Montana
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Dakota
There are 11 states that have yet to launch their programs. Those states are: Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming.