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Insurers who thought the public plan was a threat have another thing coming

July 30, 2010 by MassDevice

Employers who promote individual health will have the greatest success at lowering employees' health care expenditures.

Check out this study from the Healthcare Performance Management Institute, a business-backed think tank that promotes self-insurance among employers. The survey claims that insurance companies are refusing to provide employers with detailed data about employee claims, citing privacy concerns. The result is that employers do not have the data that would allow them to better control their own costs by promoting employee health.

GOP jabs meaningful use rules

July 23, 2010 by MassDevice staff

U.S. House Republicans say health information technology adoption rules aren't strict enough to reduce waste and improve patient care, even as the American Medical Assn. calls the regulations too restrictive.

Republicans angling for stricter rules on meaningful use of electronic medical records opened fire on the Dept. of Health and Human Services' new regulations during congressional hearings July 20.

Despite industrial groups and experts praising the new regulations, including the American Medical Assn. saying the rules are impractically stiff, the GOP seized on the issue as another front in its fight against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — even though the incentives were funded by the HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, not the healthcare reform legislation.

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Minnesota rolls out incentive-based pay-for-performance program

July 19, 2010 by MedCity News

In an attempt to reduce costs, Minnesota health officials launched an incentive-based payment system for hospitals and ambulatory firms to offer better care.

By Thomas Lee

To improve healthcare in Minnesota, the state is now offering providers a little more than the proverbial pat on the back.

Earlier this month, Minnesota health officials launched an incentive-based payment system for hospitals and ambulatory firms who treat patients enrolled in the state's health insurance programs.

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DOJ charges 94 with $251 million worth of Medicare fraud

July 19, 2010 by MassDevice staff

The U.S. Justice and Health and Human Services departments charge 94 individuals in five states for allegedly submitting $251 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.

DOJ alleges 94 commit $251 million medicare fraud

In the largest takedown since the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the Health & Human Services Dept. began collaborating to prosecute Medicare fraud three years ago, 94 individuals were charged across five states for allegedly submitting a combined $251 million in fraudulent claims.

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U.K. plans to shake up national health system

July 13, 2010 by MassDevice staff

The overhaul, which could see Great Britain's National Health Service shed as many as 30,000 jobs, would hand doctors, patients and hospitals more control.

The new head of the United Kingdom's Dept. of Health proposed sweeping changes to the country's National Health Service.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley released a whitepaper detailing an overhaul of the British national health system that the Guardian newspaper called "the biggest shakeup of the NHS in a generation."

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Mass. House makes overtures to small businesses with healthcare bill

July 9, 2010 by State House New...

A bid to reduce healthcare costs in Massachusetts would spread rate increases for small businesses over several years, as the Bay State looks to figure out how to afford its healthcare reform law.

By Jim O'Sullivan, State House News Service

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Vive le dirigisme!

July 7, 2010 by MassDevice

Our healthcare system is already state-controlled, no matter what the Wall Street Journal says, and control by states like Massachusetts that drives costs down is better than the dirigisme we now enjoy that drives costs higher.

By Merrill Goozner

I had missed the news that the Massachusetts health care experiment, the prototype for the national reform law, was going down the tubes. So my eyes immediately gravitated to the op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this morning whose headline warned about the coming "train wreck" in the Bay State, soon to be followed by "runaway spending, price controls, even limits on care and medical licensing."

Category: Healthcare reform

Insurers who thought the public plan was a threat have another thing coming

July 30, 2010 by MassDevice

GOP jabs meaningful use rules

July 23, 2010 by MassDevice staff

Minnesota rolls out incentive-based pay-for-performance program

July 19, 2010 by MedCity News

DOJ charges 94 with $251 million worth of Medicare fraud

July 19, 2010 by MassDevice staff

U.K. plans to shake up national health system

July 13, 2010 by MassDevice staff

Mass. House makes overtures to small businesses with healthcare bill

July 9, 2010 by State House New...

Vive le dirigisme!

July 7, 2010 by MassDevice

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