6 Hospitals’ Meaningful Use Payment Numbers

Becker’s Hospital CIO has posted some really interesting data about the meaningful use payments that hospitals have received. They very smartly looked at the first quarter financial reports for 6 hospitals that disclosed their EHR stimulus payments. Check out the data below:

  1. Community Health Systems (Franklin, Tenn.): $40 million, up from $19 million during the first quarter of 2013
  2. IASIS Healthcare (Franklin, Tenn.): $4 million, down from $5 million during the first quarter of 2013
  3. Tenet Healthcare (Dallas): $9 million, up from $5 million during the first quarter of 2013
  4. Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.): $30 million, down from $39 million during the first quarter of 2013.
  5. LifePoint Hospitals (Brentwood, Tenn.): $14 million, up from $6 million during the first quarter of 2013
  6. Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.): $430,000, down from $4.7 million during the first quarter of 2013

It’s interesting to see some of them have their payments really fall off. We’ll see how this data plays out over time, but I think it’s another data point that meaningful use stage 2 has issues and we should consider blowing up meaningful use.

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