Rep. Zack Space (D-OH) today introduced the Electronic Health Record Incentives for Multi-campus Hospitals Act, which ensures that payment incentives would be available to all qualified hospitals that are part of larger multi-campus hospital systems sharing a single provider number. The AHA voiced strong support for the bill in a letter to the sponsor, noting that providing incentive payments to only one hospital in a multi-hospital system "would not accurately account for the implementation and training costs of EHRs across different institutions; nor would it accurately reflect differences in clinical services provided at different sites." The legislation clarifies that EHR incentive payments under Medicare and Medicaid should go to each campus of a multi-campus hospital system consisting of a main provider hospital and one or more remote location hospitals. To balance the needs of both large and small systems, the bill gives them the choice of receiving base payments for each campus and one per-discharge amount, or one base payment with additional per-discharge amounts for each campus.