Receive $63,750 in the state of Maryland Medicaid EHR Incentive Program

The CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) presently offers incentive payments to eligible professionals participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs that indicate the meaningful use of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology. The Medicaid EHR Incentive Program are made to motivate the adoption, implementation or upgrade certified EHR technology and its utilization in a meaningful manner.

To serve enrollment in its Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, the Maryland established the electronic Medicaid Incentive Program Payment (eMIPP) system. The Maryland eMIPP system offers incentive payments to qualified experts as they adopt, implement, upgrade or indicate meaningful use of certified EHR technology.

The previous year a Medicaid contributor may start participation in the program is the year 2016. In case to get an incentive payment, eligible professionals must demonstrate by the time December 31, 2016 that they have adopted, implemented, or upgraded (AIU) certified EHR technology.  To apply for the program a contributor must have at least 30 percent of their sufferer volume in a consecutive ninety days period in the year 2015 as Medicaid encounters. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene gave a handy guide on how to measure your patient volume. A contributor should follow this guide in case to register for the state of Maryland CMS Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program.  The program will sustain to make incentive payments until the year 2021.

Contributors can approach and submit a meaningful use attestation to the eMIPP website starting from the day of February 1, 2016. With a recent thirty-day extension, the new target time for eligible professionals to attest with the state of Maryland for Program Year 2015 is the April 30, 2016. Attestation dates are subject to alter and any program updates will be issued on the eMIPP website.

Maryland Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Overview:

• Merely 1 incentive payment each year


• Incentives are similar regardless of start year


• 1^st  year payment is $21,250


• The proposed Maximum incentives are $63,750 over 6 years


• Must start by the year 2016 to get incentive payments


• Incentives present through the year 2021

Medicaid EHR Incentive Program

Max payout per year	First year of participation
	2015	2016
2015	$21,250
2016	$8,500	$21,250
2017	$8,500	$8,500
2018	$8,500	$8,500
2019	$8,500	$8,500
2020	$8,500	$8,500
2021		$8,500

Primary differences between the Federal and State Medicaid Incentive programs:

Federal Medicare EHR Incentive Program	State Medicaid EHR Incentive Program
Administered by CMS	Administered by your State Medicaid Agency
Maximum incentive amount is $44,000	Maximum incentive amount is $63,750
Payments over five consecutive years	Payments over 6 years, doesn’t have to be consecutive
Providers must demonstrate meaningful use every year to receive incentive payments	In the 1st year contributors can get an incentive payment for adopting, implementing, or upgrading EHR technology. Contributors must demonstrate meaningful use in the left over years to gain incentive payments.