United Healthcare Subsidiary Offers Interest Free Loans for Their EHR System, But...
With all the money they make it appears that is the least they can do with doctors and hospitals struggling to survive in many areas of the US. There are also many other EHR vendors who are not financed or part of an insurance company that can help as well.
Interesting and disturbing post from The Medical Quack.
If I'm reading this correctly, the Ingenix subdivision of United Healthcare is offering a sweet deal for small group docs to get an EHR system: 6 months, no payments, to sign up for their version of the Allscripts-Misys electronic health record.
But it sounds like it comes with a kind of Big Brother price.
Derm offices using the system that suddenly had non-payment when the "business intelligence arm detected potential fraud."
The State of Washington using the system to "score" Medicaid claims.
I'm all for the third quoted use: Sutter Hospitals using the system to look at costs, presumably to tighten things up financially (while hopefully looking just as closely at quality). But it's a bit concerning when some of the first uses of an insurer's EHR sound more "1984" than "It's A Wonderful Life."
