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Will funding from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), propel state Medicaid programs forward with the use of electronic health records (EHRs)? Or will state fiscal crises or other unforeseen problems prevent the hoped-for progress?
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Vermont Medicaid has been able to make some important changes to the delivery of long-term care services, thanks to its unique Choices for Care waiver.
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Any Health Information Exchange (HIE) system utilized by Medicaid will need to coordinate with others in the state, including those developed by public health programs and private health plans. "Medicaid can't operate in a vacuum, and neither can the other programs...
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Thomas J. Betlach, director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Arizona's Medicaid program, says he has these goals for the program: To keep providers in the system, to keep an integrated model, to maintain competition among health plans, to pay appropriately, and to ensure access to care.
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If you don't bill and code correctly, you could be leaving money on the table, in addition to being noncompliant, warns Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, president, Ellis Medical Consulting in Brentwood, TN. Ellis spoke at a recent coding seminar held by the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.
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Splashes and splatters can transmit disease effectively, but many institutions don't adequately protect against this risk, says Susan Y. Parnell, RN, MSN, MPH, CIC, director of employee health clinical services at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.
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(Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on the benefits of a marketing director. In this issue, we tell you about the successes of a former RN who increased referrals while working part-time as the marketing director of a surgery center. In next month's issue, we tell you about the benefits of having a full-time director with a marketing background.)
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It is viable for your facility to be out of network in a world dominated by powerful insurance payers? The answer is a definite . . . maybe.
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