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By: Les Masterson, for HealthLeaders Media, March 15, 2010
Cleve Killingsworth, who has led Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts since 2004, is leaving the insurer effective immediately. The insurer's board accepted Killingsworth's resignation, but the president and CEO "will remain available to the company as needed to ensure a smooth transition," according to BCBSMA.
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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, March 16, 2010
The wheels began turning this week toward completing a final healthcare reform measure. On Monday afternoon, one of those wheels was the House Budget Committee, which voted 21-16 to approve a draft bill that will be used to make changes to the Senate-approved healthcare reform bill.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, March 15, 2010
Leading provider groups used the last day of a public comment period to urge CMS to scale back the proposed rule establishing meaningful use criteria for electronic health records incentive programs.
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By: Les Masterson and Janice Simmons, March 15, 2010
In its latest round of health IT funding, HHS announced $162 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding on Monday to help states "facilitate health information exchange and advance health information technology." The funding is part of a $2 billion initiative to "achieve widespread meaningful use of health IT and provide use of an electronic health record by every citizen by the year 2014," according to HHS.
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By: Dom Nicastro, for HealthLeaders Media, March 15, 2010
Office of Civil Rights confirmed it expects to release proposed rules regarding privacy and security provisions of HITECH, but still has not said when. For the past couple of weeks, industry insiders have talked about an enforcement delay in HITECH provisions effective February 17 until OCR formally publishes rules regarding the provisions.
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By: Julie McCoy, March 15, 2010
The process and decision to terminate a resident for academic reasons weighs heavily on most residency program directors' minds. Despite possible guilt, most program directors take their obligation to protect the public seriously.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, March 16, 2010
An expert panel convened by the American College of Physicians says that properly designed pay-for-performance programs can strengthen physician-patient relations and improve care. The panel, which included experts in clinical medicine, law, management, and health policy, met six times to examine the relationship between medical professionalism and various P4P financial incentive programs.
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By: Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, March 16, 2010
Most physicians believe that employers should play a role in the health of their employees with chronic conditions, such as informing physicians about programs in the workplace that could help their patients manage heart disease, according to a poll conducted by the Midwest Business Group on Health. According to the poll results, 59% of physicians said that employers should let doctors know about workplace efforts to help a patient manage chronic disease.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, March 15, 2010
Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan has established new agreements with Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital and Hurley Medical Center in Flint to expand pediatric surgical expertise at these two hospitals.
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By: Karen Minich-Pourshadi, for HealthLeaders Media, March 15, 2010
Claims processing has been a slow and inefficient process on both sides, leading to large financial losses. After years of back and forth, someone is trying to fix it.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, March 15, 2010
A recent survey found that employers are frustrated that employees aren't taking advantage of their work-based wellness programs to rid themselves of unhealthy habits such as smoking and excess weight.
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