HHS Clarifies Electronic Health Record Software Offer

Health-IT World: "Private medical practices will have to pay a $2,700 licensing fee, per doc, for the first year, according to Gary Carr, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and even the Times said that implementation costs would run in the thousands for a typical physician practice. Media and healthcare interests all over the country picked up on the Times headline, which read, 'U.S. Will Offer Doctors Free Electronic Records System,' and on some of the more declarative statements in the article. "