Government Affairs Updates for the Health IT Industry

Friday, March 20, 2009

Interesting Stimulus Factoid - CMS Website posts Eligible Stimulus Recipients, including Hospitals

`(B) POSTING ON WEBSITE- The Secretary shall post on the Internet website of the Centers
for Medicare &Medicaid Services, in an easily understandable format, a list of the names of
the eligible hospitals that are meaningful EHR users under this subsection or subsection (b)(3)(B)
(ix) (and a list of the names of critical access hospitals to which paragraph (3) or (4) of section
1814(l) applies), and other relevant data as determined appropriate by the Secretary. The
Secretary shall ensure that an eligible hospital (or critical access hospital) has the opportunity
to review the other relevant data that are to be made public with respect to the hospital (or
critical access hospital) prior to such data being made public.

This can be found on page 447 of the Stimulus Package (HR1).

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