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Nusimow: US Meaningful Use program paid $30B for EHR adoption

Michael Nusimow · 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers · Sep 21, 2019 · at 9:55

DrChrono co-founder Michael Nusimow explains the regulatory and financial incentives driving electronic health record adoption.

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“And there was a set of government incentives called Meaningful Use that paid out thirty billion dollars over the last 10 years to really just giving incentives to doctors to start using EHR tech like Dr. Crono and others”

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The claim, plainly

The US government's Meaningful Use program paid out $30 billion over a 10-year period in incentives for doctors to adopt EHR technology.

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Assessment

The claim accurately reflects the widely cited scale of the federal Meaningful Use (EHR Incentive Programs) outlay over the 10-year period following the 2009 HITECH Act, but misattributes the total payout exclusively to doctors. By late 2018, cumulative disbursements under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs totaled approximately $38.4 billion (surpassing $30 billion in 2015). However, of that total, approximately $21.7 billion went to eligible hospitals and $16.7 billion went to eligible professionals (physicians and clinicians). Because the total program figure matches the $30 billion estimate while the portion specifically paid to doctors was roughly $16.7 billion, the claim is partially true.

The Congressional Budget Office originally projected federal spending of $30.0 billion for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs over 2011–2019.
CMS program data showed cumulative incentive payments crossed $30 billion by May 2015 and reached ~$38.4 billion by late 2018.
Of the ~$38.4 billion cumulative total by late 2018, $16.7 billion went to eligible professionals (doctors) and $21.7 billion went to eligible hospitals.

Checked against

[1] nih.gov [2] aaaai.org [3] gao.gov [4] hhs.gov [5] nih.gov [6] compliance.com [7] beckershospitalreview.com [8] beckershospitalreview.com

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