July 9, 2009
Average Medicare Allowable Charges Poll
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As I mentioned in my previous post on the ARRA EHR stimulus payments under Medicare, a clinic needs to have at least $24k in allowable charges in order to receive the full EMR stimulus money of $18k. This poll is an attempt to get an idea of if most doctors offices have over $24k in allowable charges or not. I imagine Obama and company looked at this number when planning for ARRA, but I haven’t seen any data on how many clinics will be eligible for the full $18k in EMR stimulus money.
Thanks for the input. I think it will also be interesting to see how many people respond that they don’t take Medicare either. I probably should also do something similar for Medicaid. I guess that’s a future post.
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Can you please clear something up for me? Are the stimulus payments per provider or per site? If you have an office with 5 doc’s do they get 40,000 or 200,000? Thanks!
It’s actually 44k per provider. Assuming the provider has enough allowable Medicare charges. You can see a nice image of the pay schedule: http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2009/07/08/arra-ehr-stimulus-payments-under-medicare/
Thanks John! It’s Friday and I am easily confused!
Have a great weekend!