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- April 26, 2011
Collaboration with FQHCs
Read moreThe Affordable Care Act provides a requirement that Community Health Centers (FQHCs) demonstrate that they have made, and will continue to make, reasonable efforts to maintain collaborative relationships with other health care providers in their catchment areas. Specifically, the legislation lists Rural Health Clinics, low-volume hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, Sole...
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Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Payment Adjustment Information
Read moreBeginning 2012, Section 132 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (P.L.110-275) (MIPPA) requires CMS to subject eligible professionals who are not successful electronic prescribers under the eRx Incentive Program to a payment adjustment. This payment adjustment applies to all of the eligible professional’s Part...
- April 26, 2011
Medicaid EHR Incentive Program: Aggregating Visits for an Entire Clinic or RHC
Read moreIf an eligible professional (EP) in the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program wants to leverage a clinic or group practice’s patient volume as a proxy for the individual EP, how should a clinic or group practice account for EPs practicing with them part-time and/or applying for the incentive through a...
- April 25, 2011
Comparison Of Medicaid Provisions In Deficit-Reduction Proposals
Read moreA new issue brief from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured compares several proposals, including ones by President Obama and the House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), to address Medicaid spending as part of a broad-based debt- and deficit-reduction package. Click to read the brief.
- April 25, 2011
Health Care Workforce: Future Supply vs. Demand
Read moreA new issue brief from the Alliance for Health Reform assesses the healthcare workforce, which workers are most needed, and gives strategies on dealing with the problem of shortages. Click to read the brief.
- April 20, 2011
New ACO Resources
Read moreHealth Reform GPS, a joint project between Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and George Washington University, has posted an overview for the Medicare Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
- April 20, 2011
The Broadband Speed Divide
Read moreA new article on Daily Yonder looks at broadband Internet access between rural and urban areas based on data released this year by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The analysis found that nationally the gap in access to broadband Internet between rural and urban areas is narrowing, however...
- April 19, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court Does Not Act on ACA
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court deferred taking action on a bid by Virginia’s attorney general for fast-track consideration of the state’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Court will have another opportunity this month to decide whether to take up the ACA for early consideration. While the Supreme Court...
- April 19, 2011
Medicare EHR Incentive Program Attestation Began Monday!
Read moreThis means that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) can attest through the CMS web-based attestation system and be on their way to receiving Medicare EHR incentive payments. Several new CMS resources can help you successfully navigate the Medicare EHR Incentive Program: • A new...
- April 19, 2011
Use of Health Information Technology in Support of Patient-Centered Medical Homes Is Low Among Non-metropolitan Family Medicine Practices
Read moreBy creating a medical home program within Medicare, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 gave momentum to growing interest in the concept of a patient-centered medical home (PCMH). Are physician practices, especially non-metropolitan primary care practices, ready to become PCMHs? We use a nationwide survey of...
