Archive for April 2011

First ARRA incentive payment

BIG NEWS – The First Hospital in the Country to Get a Medicaid EHR Incentive Program

Payment… is an Allscripts Client!!!
WHY IS THIS A REALLY BIG DEAL?
The University of Kentucky Healthcare (UK Healthcare), an Allscripts Sunrise client, was the first
hospital in the country to receive a Medicaid EHR Incentive Program payment! So, the first client in the country to receive a check was an
Allscripts client – how cool is that?!
They received $2.86 million, which is about a third of the total Meaningful Use payments that they expect to receive from Medicaid over the
course of the program.