2011 House Bill 5014 ↩

House Roll Call 422: Passed

To appropriate an extra $320.4 million for two items. The first is $119 million that is nearly all federal money for a program to provide incentive payments to health care providers and facilities to adopt state-approved electronic health care record systems. The second appropriates the money from a <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2011-SB-348">new 1 percent tax</a> on health insurance claims designed to “game” the federal Medicaid system to get higher federal payments to Michigan’s medical welfare system.