This Week's Healthcare Online News
Fierce Health Payer
Blues plans, Walgreens launch educational campaign about exchanges
July,12,2013
by+Dina Overland
One of the nation's largest health insurers has partnered with the largest pharmacy chain to educate the public about healthcare reform and help consumers shop for coverage through the new health insurance exchanges.
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and Walgreens together launched the educational campaign Wednesday with a new website, and said they would distribute brochures that answer basic questions like what the law does, when it takes effect and who is eligible for benefits at most of Walgreens' 8,500 stores across the country. It also will include in-store advertising about the healthcare overhaul, reported the Chicago Tribune.
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MedCity News
Will community health centers keep new Obamacare patients as repeat customers?
July,14,2013
by:+Abutaleb, Yasmeen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Community health centers expect to sign up millions of newly insured patients under President Barack Obama's health reform law, but U.S. budget cuts just as they need to beef up services may make it hard to keep the newcomers.
The federally funded centers have been a safety net in the nation's poorest areas since 1965, offering primary care and mental health services to 22 million people, more than a third of them without insurance.
When the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, takes full effect on January 1, the 1,200 clinics plan to help enroll many of the newly insured. That campaign is expected to bring 10 million new patients within a year.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Primary-care docs see promise in CMS' proposed pay for non face-to-face work
July,13,2013
By:+Andis Robeznieks
Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions generate a set fee for each visit to the Center for Primary Care in Augusta, Ga. Yet that visit will generate numerous tasks—including making referrals to calling in prescriptions to answering questions over the telephone from the patient's spouse. None is reimbursed by the CMS.
“For every E&M visit we get reimbursed for, there are seven other items of work that we don't get reimbursed for,” said Dr Paul Fischer, founder of the Center for Primary Care. “The vast majority of our work gets done outside of the 15 minutes you spend in the exam room.
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Fierce Health IT
ONC took 'inspiration' from Internet for Health IT
July,12,2013
by:+Greg Slabodkin
Electronic health records and the Affordable Care Act should be accessed like today's Internet and not like enterprise resource planning (ERP) or traditional IT systems, says the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT's Doug Fridsma in an InfoWorld interview.
Fridsma,who is chief science officer (CSO) and director of ONC's Office of Science and Technology, is spearheading federal efforts to make the HITECH requirements "happen" at a technical and medical level.
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