Table 7.
Estimated Third-Party Payments for CPOE Costs for Iowa Hospitals
| “Low” Costs |
“High” Costs |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third Party Payment ($millions) | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 1 | Year 2 |
| Medicare (critical access only) | $9.8 | $16.7 | $15.5 | $29.9 |
| 25% CPOE cost pass-through | 17.4 | 29.6 | 29.5 | 56.1 |
| 50% CPOE cost pass-through | 24.9 | 42.5 | 43.6 | 82.3 |
| 75% CPOE cost pass-through | 32.5 | 55.4 | 57.6 | 108.5 |