How HR 1604 changes current law

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The bill extends Medicaid electronic health record incentive payments to physician assistants regardless of their practice location.

• 42 U.S.C. 1396b(t)(3)(B)(v)

  insofar as the assistant is practicing in a rural health clinic that is led by a physician assistant or is practicing in a Federally qualified health center that is so led

  This change allows physician assistants to receive incentive payments even if they are not working in specific types of health centers.