While mainstream news coverage is still a primary source of information for the latest in policy debates and the health care marketplace, online blogs have become a significant part of the media landscape, often presenting new perspectives on policy issues and drawing attention to under-reported topics. To provide complete coverage of health policy issues, the […]
Kaisernetwork.org – Dec. 16, 2008. California Republican lawmakers on Monday released a plan to address the state’s projected $41.8 billion budget deficit in part by redirecting funds for mental health services and children’s health care, the Los Angeles Times reports (Rau, Los Angeles Times, 12/16). The $22 billion plan is an effort by state Republicans […]
Kaisernetwork.org – Dec. 16, 2008. The number of physicians in the U.S. who have adopted electronic prescribing technology may have doubled to more than 70,000 this year, up from 35,000 in December 2007, according to estimates by the e-prescription network management firm SureScripts-RxHub, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The number of paperless prescriptions also has been […]
Kaisernetwork.org – Dec. 16, 2008. States faced with declining revenue are cutting overall spending for the first time since 1983 and Medicaid funding could face serious shortfalls in some states if the federal government does not provide relief, according to a survey released Monday by the National Association of State Budget Officers and the National […]
CPT® 2009 Errata Document from the AMA website This is the AMA’s corrections document for CPT® 2009. It is 14 pages in PDF format. Download HERE.
Transcript of Conference Call with the RACs: Part B Providers from the Nov. 13, 2008 CMS Open Door Forum CMS hosted this Special Open Door Forum for Part B provider recovery audit contractors (RACs) on November 13, 2008. The attached document is a PDF format file containing the raw transcript of the call, as posted […]
Kaisernetwork.org – Dec. 15, 2008. Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, examines expected health care inclusions in an economic stimulus package, the nomination of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as HHS secretary, and Sen. Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) health care overhaul legislation in this week’s “Health on the Hill from kaisernetwork.org and […]
Kaisernetwork.org – Dec. 15, 2008. The Hospital and HealthSystem Association of Pennsylvania on Thursday filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court alleging that the administration of Gov. Ed Rendell (D) has violated the state constitution by not providing funding for a program that helps subsidize medical malpractice insurance costs for doctors, the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s “From the […]
Kaisernetwork.org – Dec. 15, 2008. As President-elect Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders craft an economic stimulus package, “a parade of interest groups is seeking shares of the portion that will go to infrastructure construction projects,” including some in the health care sector, the Boston Globe reports. An adviser to Obama said that spending priorities […]