Gurley describes $38 billion program paying doctors $44,000 each to buy electronic health record software.
“They came up with a brilliant idea. I have to assume she helped encourage this. Doctors would receive $44,000 each if they bought software. $38,000,000,000.”
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“I have to assume she helped encourage this. Doctors would receive $44,000 each if they bought software. $38,000,000,000. This is true. You can look it up.”
Gurley says Obama's stimulus included $38 billion paying doctors $44,000 each to buy EHR software.
“Doctors would receive $44,000 each if they bought software. $38,000,000,000. This is true. You can look it up. I'm not making it up. $44,000, give it to a doctor, implement some software.”
Gurley says DOJ fined Epic competitors $155 million, $57 million, and $145 million for lacking mandated features.
“But they got the Department of Justice to enforce people that didn't have the feature set that were getting the payments, and you had three record fines, 155,000,000, 57,000,000, 145,000,000 against the lesser competitors of Epic. Unreal.”