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Med City News
JAMA study: What’s the difference between ECGs and hospital parking? Transparency
Dec,03,2013
by+ Stephanie Baum
As out-of-pocket costs increase for consumers, there’s a big push for hospitals to improve price transparency. Although the demand represents a trend in healthcare, particularly among startups, it could be part of the future of healthcare once providers and payers and groups can untangle the complexities. A study published in the Journal of American Medical Association took on the issue by calling 20 hospitals in Philadelphia. It wanted to compare the ease of getting the price of parking over the phone compared with getting the cost of a medical procedure — in this case electrocardiograms.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Reform Update: Delay Medicaid DSH cuts, hospitals ask lawmakers
Dec,03,2013
by:+Virgil Dickson
Hundreds of hospitals around the country have signed a letter to congressional leaders (PDF) asking them to delay cuts to Medicaid supplemental funding for the care of the uninsured and low-income patients.
More than $18 billion in cuts for the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital funding are expected to take effect between 2014 and 2019. Those cuts were mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was passed with the expectation hospitals would deliver less uncompensated care because all states would expand Medicaid eligibility to adults earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level. But the U.S. Supreme Court last year made Medicaid expansion optional for the states, and about half the states have not expanded their programs.
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Health Data Management
Chicagoland’s HIE Gets Ready to Roll
Dec,03,2013
by:+Staff
Four years after legislation paved the way for a massive health information exchange serving up to 89 hospitals in the greater Chicago region, the first wave of facilities will start hooking up in January.
Thirty-four hospitals are preparing to go live on the MetroChicago HIE with the first ones on board during the first quarter of 2014, says Daniel Yunker, CEO of Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company and senior vice president of the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, which leads the HIE effort. Initial services, live by the end of the quarter, will include admissions/discharge/transfer document exchange, Direct Project secure messaging, a master patient index and record locator. These initial services are achievable for the first 34 hospitals and are sufficient to provide value in the first phase of the HIE, Yunker adds.
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Fierce Health IT
For HIEs, shared patients and social networks matter more than location
Dec,03,2013
by:+
It's not all about location for health information exchange networks--physicians are influenced by other physicians with whom they interact with and have common patients with more than geographical location in HIEs, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
For the study, network effects among clusters of physicians based on their professional and geographical proximities were examined. A diffusion model was used to capture both indirect and direct network effects among groups, studied over a three-year period, for an HIE in Western New York by researchers from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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