TRA-financing for small firms

The federal government wants the health care industry to move to digital information, like many other industries have done. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and information technology for health economic and clinical health (HITECH) Act created to fund and support a national network of health information without using paper the adoption of electronic health records (EHR). The attraction is Medicare or Medicaid, but not both are based. The incentive to provider practice began in 2011 and reduced payments until 2016. Occurs after that date, a penalty of 2% reduction in reimbursement by CMS for physicians not to EMR.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to take the average cost to implement, and / or upgrade HIT is $ 54,000 per full time equivalent (FTE) physician during the annual maintenance cost on average $ 10,000 per physician FTE.

Medicaid is a payment of $ 17700000000, where professionals eligible to receive $ 44 000 over five years. This amount is about $ 500 per month for the EMR, as well as hundreds of controls for various services such as prescription and eligibility. Many of the cloud base of EMR systems are charging almost as much for their services, like doctors are for the implementation of EMR to replace.

Medicaid premiums received $ 12.4 billion where professionals eligible up to $ 63 750 in six years. The cloud-based systems are the cheapest and most are dependent on Internet connection to its facilities in which to connect to the data provider. At any time the supplier is able to import this data into their own systems, if they want in their facilities, but this requires additional servers and IT support is that for a higher cost up front.

Eligible professionals are what a minimum volume of 30% of patients or at least 20% Medicaid patient volume and a pediatrician. Providers that are covered in this include payment,

A specialized medical assistant, nurse or nurse

A certified registered nurse anesthetist

A certified nurse midwife

A clinical social worker

A clinical psychologist

A dietitian or nutrition professional