CMS to spend $905M on IT systems support — Federal Computer Week
Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plan to spend as much as $905 million by September 2015 on information technology systems that can support and monitor the $17 billion in incentive payments to doctors and hospitals authorized under the economic stimulus law, according to a new planning document.
Under the law, CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT ONC will develop the policies and requirements for distributing the incentive payments that will start in fiscal 2011. To qualify for the payments, providers must adopt health IT and show “meaningful use” of electronic patient records.
CMS will use its funds to develop, implement and maintain IT systems that will assess and deliver the payments accurately to eligible providers. The systems are expected to include applications for determining eligibility, enrolling applicants, making payments, reporting on quality, and providing financial accountability and monitoring, according to the plan, which was posted online at Recovery.gov on May 15.
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