CMS on Track to Pay $1 Billion in MU Incentives by Year's End

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September paid out $25 million to 1400 eligible providers and $61 million to 30 dually eligible hospitals under the meaningful use EHR incentive program, according to Robert Anthony from the CMS Office of E-Health Standards and Services.

Anthony made the announcement at the Oct. 12 meeting of the HIT Policy Committee. Since the MU program began Jan. 1, 2011, CMS has paid out $870 million in incentives. “We are well on track to pay out $1 billion by the end of this year,” he said. In September, 17,000 additional eligible providers registered for the MU program – a 70 percent increase over August, Anthony added...