New York Insurer Offers Incentives For Electronic Health Records

ALBANY, NY (Managed Care Wire): One of your competitors in New York state is giving providers another reason to adopt electronic medical records (EMRs) -- by distributing millions in incentive funds to doctors and specialists who use EMRs in their offices, reports The Business Review.

Capital District Physician's Health Plan (CHPHP) offers the incentives in a three-step program. To receive financial rewards in the first step, providers and specialists must adopt an EMR system. The second step requires providers to integrate outside data such as test results, emergency room reports, and patient vital signs before CDPHP distributes more financial rewards. The final step mandates electronic delivery of the information to CDPHP.

CDPHP began the program in 2005, and since its inception, about 41 percent of primary care physicians participate, reports The Business Review.