The Pennsylvania Department of Health has published the reproduction costs for medical records for 2014.
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Highmark Launches Accountable Care Alliance
Highmark Launches Accountable Care Alliance
Attached is the press release;
https://www.highmark.com/hmk2/newsroom/pressreleases/2013/pr071813.shtml
More to come when the details are evaluaited.
California Issues Guidance on Mobile Privacy
Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.
412.594.3915
All commercial website and online service providers need to comply with the requirements of the California Online Privacy Protection Act. California recently issued guidance on how mobile application developers and others can comply with those requirements at the design stage in its guide entitled, "Privacy On the Go…
Pennsylvania Medical Records Fees for 2013
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has issued its medical records fees for 2013. The announcement is attached; it provides as follows:
Not to Exceed
Amount charged per page for pages 1-20 $ 1.42
Amount charged per page for pages 21-60 $ 1.05
Amount charged per …
National Foundation for American Policy Recommends Immigration Reform to Meet Needs of U.S. Healthcare
National Foundation for American Policy released its November 2012 policy recommendations recognizing immigration reform for health care workers as a broad measure to deal with increasing labor demand and shortage in the health care industry arising from the needs of the aging U.S. population and the Affordable Care Act. These policy recommendations are necessary at…
Physician Groups Asking for Elimination of SGR Formula and Proposing Transition Plan
Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.
412.594.3915
In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, more than one-hundred physicians’ groups have urged the elimination of the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, asserting that the formula is an impediment to successful health care delivery and payment reforms that can improve the quality of patient care while…
The 2013 Limits for Qualified Retirement Plans
As they do every year, The Internal Revenue Service released the dollar limits that apply to qualified retirement plans.Continue Reading The 2013 Limits for Qualified Retirement Plans
Pittsburgh Business Times article: Growing number of carriers offering companies cybersecurity insurance
Lee Kim, attorney in the health law practice group of Tucker Arensberg, P.C., was recently featured in a Pittsburgh Business Times article entitled, "Growing number of carriers offering companies cybersecurity insurance."
Link to the article: www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/print-edition/2012/10/05/growing-number-of-carriers-offering.html.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Article: Patients may suffer as doctors switch practices, health systems
Michael A. Cassidy, JD, CHC, shareholder and director of Tucker Arensberg, P.C. and Chair of the Health Law Practice Group, was recently featured in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article entitled "Patients may suffer as doctors switch practices, health systems."
Link to the article: www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/patients-may-suffer-as-doctors-switch-practices-health-systems-654855/.
CRNA – CMS Developments
I thought you might be interested in linking to or writing about a recent blog post by Christine Zambricki, a top official with the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. The post originally appeared in ADVANCE for Nurses
Protecting Access to CRNAs Relieves Patient Pain
By Christine Zambricki, CRNA, MA, FAAN
In less than two weeks…