Tag: State
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EHR Adoption Encouraged by State Meaningful Use Acceleration Challenge 2.0
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is officially launching the State Meaningful Use Acceleration Challenge 2.0! This year’s challenge builds off the success of the 2012 State Meaningful Use Challenge, which pitted every state and territory against one another to see which would best accelerate the Meaningful Use incentive program…
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Roundup: Feds cut N.Y. Medicaid payments $1.2B; 93,000 fewer kids enroll in CHIP in Pa.; W. Va. lawmakers promise miners benefits
Federal authorities have dramatically lowered the amount that New York state can claim from the federal government for certain medical services, costing the state an estimated $1.2 billion.
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Indiana House committee approves alternative option for Medicaid expansion
The legislation would use the state’s Healthy Indiana Plan to add coverage for 400,000 low-income residents.
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Supporters of Medicaid expansion fight to be heard in some statehouses
Mississippi House Democrats blocked passage of the state’s Medicaid budget Sunday to force a vote on expanding the program, while supporters and critics do battle in Missouri, Montana and Arkansas.
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Drilling Down to the Data, Engaging the Doctors
Mercy Health Partners’ Amy Frankowski, M.D., talks about the opportunities and challenges involved in sharing clinical performance data with physicians—and moving forward collectively in an accountable care context A lot of innovation has been taking place recently within Catholic Health Partners, a Cincinnati-based integrated health system that encompasses 29 hospitals, making it the largest health…
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Kaiser Permanente Accused Of Using EMR As Smokescreen
Kaiser Permanente, California’s largest healthcare provider, has been cited by state officials for using its EMR to work its way around requirements to see mental health patients promptly, reports EHR Intelligence. Potentially risking their own jobs, Kaiser’s own mental health team brought the discrepancies to the attention of the state. Their complaint not only…
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SC lawmakers turn to technology to solve state health problems
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Report: Three-in-Five Physicians Satisfied with their EHR
According to a new report from Deloitte Center for Health Services (DCHS), which surveyed 613 physicians on the state of healthcare reform and the medical profession in general, three-in-five physicians are satisfied with their electronic health records (EHRs). Overall though, physicians in the surveyed are concerned about the future of healthcare, with nearly 60 percent…
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Arkansas report finds little additional federal costs would result from state’s ‘private option’ for Medicaid expansion
The report, issued by the Arkansas Department of Human Services, found that the plan would add less than 15 percent to federal health care costs in the state.
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Medicaid expansion continues to be Florida flashpoint
Health advocates and some lawmakers rallied last week in Tallahassee to expand Medicaid coverage, but the Florida House speaker says the expansion is “dead” in his state. In addition, debate over this health law provision continues in Louisiana.