Thursday, October 29, 2009

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Healthcare IT Reimbursement

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) allows reimbursements to providers for certain kinds of healthcare IT. However some providers are skeptical of the reimbursements and are not interested in utilizing the available funds.

Some providers argue that there are many problems with what is proposed so far and also that they don't see many doctors adopting HIT. Other providers believe collection of data could be used to punish them in the future, or, particularly in rural areas, the cost of implementing healthcare IT is too much for physicians to pay.

Read the full article from Healthcare IT news here:

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/providers-skeptical-meaningful-use-reimbursement-process

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