The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses something called the National Provider Identifier Standard to keep track of physicians who serve Medicare patients. As a result, each provider is assigned something called an NPI number. All Medicare providers are required to supply their NPI...
The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act authorized incentive payments through Medicare and Medicaid to increase physician adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems. Eligible Medicare and Medicaid physicians may receive incentive payments over 5 years ...