March 4 Update: HFS has made payments to 2,779 EPs totalling more than $58.3 million. These totals are for program year 1. There are 264 EPs in the work queue, including 73 from 2011.
January 18 Update: HFS has made payments to 2,102 EPs totalling more than $44.1 million. That includes 1,661 from 2011 attestation and 441 from 2012. There are 1,033 EPs in the work queue, including 582 from 2011.
November 8 Update: HFS has made payments to 1,574 EPs totalling more than $33.1 million. There are 1,296 EPs in the work queue, including 859 for payment year 2011.
October 24 Update: HFS reported that 1,536 EPs had received payments of more than $33 million as of October 24.
September 27 Update: HFS reported 1,334 EPs received payments of more than $28.1 million. There were 212 EPs in the payment queue representing more than $4.5 in pending payments as well as 1,224 EPs in the pre-payment audit process.The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) provided an update on the status of payments for the Electronic Health Records Provider Incentive Payment Program during the most recent meeting of the Illinois Health Information Exchange Medicaid Work Group.
As of September 13, HFS reported payments of more than $26.8 million to 1,276 Eligible Professionals (EP) for payment year 2011. HFS reported that 273 EP were in the payment queue and that 1,222 remained in the pre-payment audit process.
HFS is developing plans for targeted provider outreach and education. The goal of this outreach is to assist providers with more accurately calculating their Medicaid patient volume, which HFS has indicated is one of the main factors holding EHR/PIP applications in the pre-payment audit process.
