Health Information Privacy and Incentives, Medicaid Funding, and Other Health Care Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

This post was also written by Jacqueline B. Penrod and Amie E. Schaadt.

On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the “ARRA”). The sweeping $790 billion economic stimulus package includes a number of health care policy provisions. Reed Smith’s Health Care Memorandum summarizes the major health policy provisions of the Act.