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By ROGER COLLIER In addition to Medicare Advantage payment cuts and potential reductions in fee-for-service payment updates, PPACA includes various provisions intended to facilitate ongoing Medicare cost containment, notably creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board and the Center for…
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Pitfalls of PPACA – Accountable Care Organizations
Desperate and stuck in the middle I am the mother of an 11-month-old baby girl, Cassidy, who has CCHS (Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome), a very rare genetic mutation. Our union health care company recently changed “paperwork” companies,at which time we…
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Commentology: A mother’s plea for help
Here is another case in the annals of over-paid executives of not-for-profit health care organizations, this time from the Burlington (VT) Free-Press , Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont overpaid its former chief executive officer by $3 million over an eight-year period and has been ordered to pay the money back to its subscribers by 2012 in the form of reduced premiums , a top state regulator said Wednesday.
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On May 10, 2010, the West Virginia Board of Medicine has issued a new Policy Statement – Guidelines for Physicians in Collaborative Relationships with Advanced Nurse Practitioners or Certified Nurse Midwives; Standard of Practice . The new Policy Statement provide West Virginia physicians with guidance on the role and responsibility they play in the collaborative relationship with advanced nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwifes.
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WVBOM: Policy Statement – Guidelines for Physicians in Collaborative Relationships with Advanced Nurse Practitioners
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. The Independent Weekly, North Carolina’s home for progressive news, culture and commentary just endorsed Elaine Marshall for Senate. DFA members knew she was the best candidate for the job from the beginning, but when the state’s largest Progressive paper agrees with us, the choice for NC is clear.
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Another one to watch: Elaine Marshall Gets Key Endorsement in NC
Before we revolutionize medicine via spending hundreds of billions on IT, maybe we should first fix a far more tractable problem. From Health Beat and Maggie Mahar: A New Survey Reveals What Most Hospitals Patients Don’t Know About the Residents Who Care For Them — Part 1 Summary: Most hospital patients have no idea that the resident treating them could be coming to the end of a 30-hour shift.
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Before we revolutionize medicine via spending hundreds of billions on IT, perhaps we should first fix this problem
Last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule revising the conditions of participation (CoPs) for hospitals and critical access hospitals allowing for a new credentialing and privileging process for physicians and practitioners who provide telemedicine services. The proposed rule should make it easier on smaller hospital (especially critical access hospitals) who don’t have the in-house medical staff to adequately evaluate and privilege a wide range of specialty physicians who provide services through telemedicine.
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Credentialing and Privileging Telemedicine Physician and Practitioner
Often during a Kaizen event, teams discover an area of conflict between individuals, departments, disciplines, or even leadership. Someone recently asked me if I get tired of dealing with conflict. The question caused me to reflect on the work done in Lean healthcare organizations and my belief that dealing with …
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Respect for People & Partners
This is a common problem we run across with Kaizen teams. The improvement team is working diligently on a process; understanding and analyzing current state, performing tests of change, developing counter measures and an implementation plan. They gave management and staff the opportunity to check in with the teams during the Kaizen …
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Lead As If You Have No Authority
Toss it or fix it? Anxious backers of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law are starting to see a flicker of hope.
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Americans may give it health care law a chance
By Matthew Holt Chaim Indig has been steadily turning Phreesia from an ad-supported patient check-in service to a front end for physician’s offices to manage their relationships with patients, and collect co-pays. As such Phreesia is turning from a content…
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Chaim Indig, Phreesia, on how to spend $16m
With all the upsurge in health care costs, people who aren’t insured or haven’t any funds over and over again are at a loss on how to get the prescription medicine and medical care they require. They need a prescription program assistance program.
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Now That I Have COPD, How Do I Get A Prescription Program Assistance?
At the HisTALK blog 5/31/10 update , a site with thousands of readers involved in all aspects of health IT, the following anonymous (at this point) report appeared: From Tabula Rosa : “Re: EMR usability.
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Did EPIC CEO Judy Faulkner of Epic declare that ‘healthcare IT usability would be part of certification over her dead body?’
Health care reform is looming over every business in America, including Multi-Craft in Newport. Yet, thousands of local businesses aren’t changing anything
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Health care waiting game
Throughout the year-long debate over health care reform, President Obama promised that the legislation would reduce the spiraling cost of health care and that if you liked your health care plan, you could keep it. But a couple of new government reports confirm what many of us who opposed a federal takeover of the health care system feared all along — higher costs, less access and unsustainable …
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Much is wrong with Obama’s health care law
The debate over national health care reform has moved to the California Legislature, which this week will begin taking the initial steps to implement the complex series of overhauls prescribed by the federal government.
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Calif. begins steps to enact health care reforms
The acrimonious political environment surrounding health care reform has led to some “terrible rumors” about the end of Medicare. “This is just not true,” said Ann Kasper, program manager for the Riverside office of the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program.
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Health care reform promises to close hated gap in drug medication payments
By Matthew Holt As we get closer to Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 7 (Monday) we’ll be ramping up coverage of all kinds of things, and one is a big chance for you all to get to know…
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Regina Holiday, here today & on the Health 2.0 Show Tuesday
By ROGER COLLIER The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in March, is a significant step towards a more equitable health insurance system, potentially making coverage available to millions of the currently uninsured. Unfortunately,…
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The Pitfalls of PPACA #1 – The Medical Loss Ratio Rule