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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, May 18, 2009
Just one week after its members were appointed, the new Health Information Technology Standards Committee, which is advising the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, hit the ground running May 15 with its first meeting in Washington. Another panel, the Policy Committee, which is advising the national coordinator on implementation issues, met four days earlier.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, May 15, 2009
The American Cancer Society and other patient care and medical advocacy groups are bashing CMS for its decision this week to end Medicare coverage for CT colongraphies.
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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, May 15, 2009
Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Hospital in Los Angeles has been assessed a $250,000 fine because 23 employees at a number of Kaiser facilities unlawfully breached the privacy of a patient who gave birth to octuplets earlier this year.
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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, May 18, 2009
In all the talk about creating a medical home for every American, it's important to realize that increasingly, consumers are getting their healthcare outside of the traditional physician-based healthcare system. And that may very well be a good thing. "Access to healthcare does not necessarily mean going to the doctor anymore," says health consultant Mary Kate Scott of Scott & Co. In her report for the California Health Foundation, Scott points to the rapid expansion of drugs and devices to test, monitor, and treat medical conditions without the physician office visit that defined access to healthcare a decade or two ago. In fact, a physician isn't required in the process at all.
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By: Les Masterson, for HealthLeaders Media, May 15, 2009
Legislation filed yesterday would create a demonstration project to test whether value-based insurance design can work in the Medicare population.
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By: Dom Nicastro, for HealthLeaders Media, May 15, 2009
In light of the alleged hacking into a Virginia Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, one state is tweaking its Web site security.
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By: MacKenzie Kimball , for HealthLeaders Media, May 18, 2009
A proposed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule could have a negative impact on reimbursement for skilled nursing facilities.
The proposed rule, released on May 1, calls to implement a new case-mix classification model, known as Resource Utilization Group, Version Four, for FY 2011. Some of the changes incorporated into RUG-IV significantly deviate from the currently used model, RUG-III.
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By: Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, May 15, 2009
Winston Churchill once said that you can depend on Americans to do the right thing—after they've tried everything else. With Medicare, we've tried just about everything else. So now what?
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