Florida Made Medicaid Electronic Health Record Payments to Hospitals in Accordance With Federal and State Requirements

From January 1, 2011, through April 30, 2012, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (State Agency) paid $178.5 million for Medicaid Electronic Health Record incentive payments. Of this amount, $112.2 million was paid to hospitals. We reviewed payments totaling $72.4 million to 42 hospitals that received an incentive payment totaling $1 million or more. The State agency made the EHR incentive payments in accordance with Federal and State requirements.