This article is wrong in so many ways; it is hard to know where to begin to criticize it. For one:
Payers (private and governmental) have maintained that EMR's will improve the quality of care. Hence the significant financial incentives to adopt them.
The same payers have insisted that we need to get away from volume-based payments and "pay for quality not quantity".
So we took the difficult and expensive steps they said would improve quality...and now they are surprised that the payments are higher? This is not the result of some manipulation of the system; it is a totally predictable result.
