CMS To Provide Federal Match To State Medicaid Programs To Support EHR Adoption By Behavioral Health & Long-Term Care Provider Organizations

On February 29, 2016, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a guidance memo to state Medicaid directors advising them that they could use federal funding to help behavioral health, addiction treatment, and long-term care provider organizations adopt electronic health record (EHR) technology. The funding is intended to help professionals and hospitals eligible for Medicaid EHR incentive payments connect to other Medicaid provider organizations that were not eligible under the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. The HITECH Act launched the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Meaningful Use Incentive Payment programs, but . . .