If you’re a physician practice and you’re ready to line up for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 money to help you adopt a system for electronic medical records (EMR), don’t forget Stark and the fraud and abuse laws when you set up your agreements with hospitals and vendors.
In a recent webinar, “EMR: Meeting Stark, F&A and ARRA Mandates,” Wayne Miller, a lawyer with the Compliance Law Group in Los Angeles, said that financing continues to be a roadblock to implementation of EMR systems. At this point, only 10% of hospitals and 20% of physicians offices have adopted them, according to Miller. “Even with stimulus money, adoption of EMR is very low,” he pointed out. “It is not exploding as people expected.”
Because of the economy, there are fewer opportunities for providers to get the money they need…
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