This report examines the Medicaid HIT adoption incentives contained in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA). The first study to map the potential impact of the Medicaid provisions on incentive funding finds that about 45,000 office-based physicians – including nearly all physicians who practice at FQHCs and half of office-based pediatricians – may be eligible for up to $63,750 over six years to improve and maintain their HIT systems because of their participation in Medicaid.
The brief was authored by Brad Finnegan, Leighton Ku, Peter Shin and Sara Rosenbaum.