The government's plan is raising the hackles of some physicians, the New York Times reports.
The entire incentive package goes up to as high as $44,000 for Medicare and up to $63,000 from Medicaid for using electronic medical records. Hospitals of course stand to gain much in the way of incentives for their incentives. The longer that providers wait though the incentives get smaller...
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What is interesting here is that one of the states cited receiving more is Arizona at 65%, and I just posted that they are trying to kick 300,000 members in that state off the program. This is basically what is trying to happen here, so are we reforming healthcare? Arizona just had to sell...
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The CMA is the second largest doctors group in the US, second only to the TMA in Texas. Many other doctor associations in other states have also expressed their opposition. No word yet on how the association stands on the House version. BD The state's largest doctors group is opposing...
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