If a practice is owned by a hospital, can the eligible professionals in the practice receive Medicaid incentive payments?
If for a payment year an eligible professional, such as a pathologist, anesthesiologist, or emergency physician, furnishes substantially all services in a hospital setting (whether inpatient or outpatient) and through the use of the facilities and equipment, including qualified electronic health records, of the hospital, the physician is not eligible for incentive payments because the hospital incurs the EHR system expense. Final physician eligibility determination criteria have not yet been defined by HHS. The ARRA does contain incentives specifically for hospitals.
