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Doctors Can Get Reimbursed for Converting Paper Records
posted 4:42 pm Tue June 10, 2008 - ANNAPOLIS
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The Department of Health and Human Services says doctors in Maryland and Washington, D.C., will be the first in the country to be reimbursed for converting paper medical records to electronic files.
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt told doctors at the Anne Arundel Medical Center on Tuesday that as many as 100 practices will be eligible for as much as $58,000 per physician or $290,000 per practice in the federal pilot program. Leavitt said small- and medium-sized practices had hesitated to convert their records because of the cost. But Dr. Ron Sroka, president-elect of the Maryland State Medical Society says doctors also had worries about patient confidentiality. Information from: The Baltimore Examiner,
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