The Pa. Departments of Health and Insurance have established a website in an attempt to provide ongoing information and guidance regarding the termination of the Highmark – UPMC relationships.
see: Stayinformed.pa,gov
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Mike Cassidy Included Again in America’s Best Healthcare Lawyers for 2015
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St. Clair Hospital named Truven Top 100
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Interesting in our Pittsburgh area that is renowned for the quality of its healthcare that St. Clair Hospital in Mt. Lebanon , PA is the only Truven Top 100, and for the 3rd year running.
Federation of State Medical Boards to Vote on Telemedicine Policy
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The March 20th edition of Modern Healthcare reports on a “patient centered telemedicine policy” to be voted on by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). I’ve attached links to both the article and to the FSMB model policy. The model policy, if approved, will be a recommendation to state medical boards regarding …
Safeguarding Your Data While Minimizing the Risk of Security Breaches
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Lee Kim, Tucker Arensberg attorney and Chair of the mHIMSS Legal/Policy Taskforce, will be a panelist at the American Conference Institute’s Legal and Business Guide to mHealth and Wireless Medical Technology in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 2013. Her panel will cover securing mobile devices, networks, data in the “cloud” and cybercrime.
OIG Reports 57% EHR Use
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Health Industry Watch reported the following:
According to the OIG, 57% of Medicare physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) system at their primary practice location in 2011, based on a sample of 2,000 physicians who provided at least 100 evaluation and management (E/M) services in 2010. Almost one quarter of physicians (22%) first began
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2012 PA MCARE Assessment = 23%
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The Insurance Department has determined that the annual assessment to be levied for calendar year 2012 shall be 23% applied to the prevailing primary premium for each participating health care provider.
The total assessment cost for 2012 will be $203,824,513. This amount is $26,741,075 more than what was collected form the 2011 assessment to cover claims…
Oregon State Appeals Court Upholds Constitutionality of Ban on Economic Damages
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In Klutschkowski v. PeaceHealth, the Oregon Court of Appeals held that Oregon’s statutory cap on non-economic damages does not violate the state’s constitution remedy and jury trial clauses in an action brought to recover injuries sustained during child birth. Oregon law provides, with certain exceptions, “in any civil action seeking damages arising out of bodily…the…
CMS Approves Physician Recruitment Contracts with Restrictive Covenants
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In CMS Advisory Opinion AO-2011-01, CMS has issued a favorable advisory opinion allowing the physician recruitment arrangement with a hospital and a physician practice which imposes a restrictive covenant upon the recruited physician.
Restrictive covenants and recruitment arrangements had initially been prohibited by the Stark Rules. However, bowing to industry comment, CMS amended the physician…
Google Pulls The Plug on Google Health
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Google announced it will shut down its Google health personal health record service by the end of this year. The Company plans to make existing data recoverable through the end of 2013, after which it will be permanently deleted.