All four major providers have agreed to take part.
In accepting these grant dollars, the provider agrees to abide by state mandates.
The provider of a selected technology must agree to provide specs, APIs, test suites and general availability before being accepted.
In doing so, a provider agrees to surrender time and take bodily risks and other (reputation, financial) risks.
Shortly after the providers agreed to bring the price of their services into line, the block was lifted.
Contracts are signed in which medical providers agree to a lower price than what they might charge other people.
Capitation: An amount paid by an insurer to a health care provider, for which the provider agrees to treat all members of the insurer.
In order to get its technology accepted, a provider must agree to provide specs, application programming interfaces, test suites and general availability before being accepted.
"To the extent that a provider agrees to discount its rates, the discounted contract rate is its 'charge' to those patients," the administration said.
As a result, the provider agreed to a settlement and has repaid the identified overpayments of $162,000 plus other penalties.