The Agency for Healthcare Administration Summer 2011Jennifer Paparelli

What is an EHR?

Florida’s Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) Incentive Program will provide payments to

eligible hospitals and providers.

Agency for Healthcare Administration

The Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA) was created by the Florida Statutes.

It serves as the chief health policy and planning entity for state.

Problem

AHCA has five years of hospital cost reports for each of the 175 hospitals in the State.

How will all of this information be used to determine how much incentive money

each hospital will receive?

What’s the best way to do this?

Suggested Alternatives

2 choices

a)Hire a temporary accounting professionalb)Use someone from their own accounting department

Solution

Use three analysts from our own department

End result?

The sharing of healthcare records saves time for the patient, reduces errors and cuts costs.