Whew!!, Honey I Can Get that 750i This Year
Despite the recommendations of Health and Human Services' Mike Leavitt and the hopes of EHR industry vendors, Congress approved Medicare legislation that does not include the adoption of healthcare IT as a means for doctors to increase their Medicare reimbursements.
With all the bad publicity around cutting doctors Medicare reimbursement by 10% and the impact on seniors who would get turned away from doctors (hey, Bimmer prices aren't going down), it was inevitable that Congress would do away with the cut and add a .5% increase. Bad boy Bush will sign.
But there are enough proposed bills out there for HCIT to stuff the big mouths of all the candidates. Among these bills, Sen. John Kerry has one to require docs to do e-prescribing or face financial penalties. Esteemed imbiber Sen. Edward Kennedy has the Wired for Healthcare Quality Act. I suspect none of these will get through. HHS will continue to blow the HCIT horn. EMR PR folks can continue the dance.
Tags: EHR, EMR, EMR+PR, Healthcare+PR, HHS, Medical+PR, Medicare+Cuts, Online+PR
Posted by Shawn Whalen on December 27, 2007 at 3:05 PM
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