MU payments top $31B
The Meaningful Use incentive payment total has reached $31.3 billion.
That total comes from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which recently released the latest data including information collected through July 2015.
To date, the EHR incentive program has 543,524 active registrations, up 2.7 percent from the 528,829 registrations from February 2015. This includes more than 355,000 eligible professionals registered for the Medicare program and more than 183,000 eligible professionals registered for the Medicaid program as of last month.
Since 2011, the government has issued more than $20.9 billion through Medicare and approximately $10 billion through Medicaid in incentive payments to eligible professionals and hospitals participating in the program.
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