What is the difference between the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Demonstration and the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs?
The EHR Demonstration is a five-year demonstration project designed to encourage small to medium-sized primary care physician practices to adopt and use EHRs to improve the quality of patient care. Practices participating in the EHR Demonstration that meet specified requirements are eligible to receive two types of incentive payments: one for the adoption and use of an EHR and one for the reporting of and performance on 26 clinical quality measures related to the care of diabetes mellitus (DM), congestive heart failure (CHF), coronary artery disease (CAD) and preventive care services. The demonstration was implemented on June 1, 2009 in the following 4 sites: Louisiana, Southwest Pennsylvania, South Dakota (and some counties in bordering states), and Maryland and the District of Columbia. After careful consideration, plans to add 8 additional sites to the demonstration one year later were discontinued due to the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs. The EHR Demo
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