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Medicare Strike Force nails 89 fraudsters

 Anthony Brino May 16, 2013
Suspected scheme leader already bought Lamborghinis, a Ferrari and a Bentley before the the DOJ and HHS cracked down on him and 88 other alleged criminals.
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Florida boosts fraud prevention in public assistance programs

 Anthony Brino May 15, 2013
Florida has some of the highest public program fraud rates in the nation, and it's also the first state to adopt a front-end fraud prevention technology for social and health programs, with a pilot in greater Orlando.
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FDCCI: A ship with potential but not empowered captains

 Tom Sullivan May 15, 2013
Has OMB lost its way toward the ambitious, if not sprawling, datacenter consolidation and Cloud-First initiatives?
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Florida HIE signs on two regional exchanges

 Anthony Brino May 14, 2013
As part of its plan to build a statewide HIE infrastructure, Florida HIE has hooked up two regional HIEs, which in in turn are connecting several providers.
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CMS won't fine hospitals in states slow to expand Medicaid

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org May 14, 2013
On Monday the Obama administration said it won't penalize states that have yet to expand coverage by targeting them for reduced Medicaid funding for the next two years.
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Commentary: When HIPAA and states collide

 Anthony Brino April 19, 2013
Associate Editor Anthony Brino explains how a recent Florida ruling demonstrates that state and federal statutes can conflict, even when they share the same goals.
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Both parties oppose Obama's Medicare budget cuts

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org April 18, 2013
Democrat and Republican Senators alike took aim at President Obama's proposed budget for 2014, and the reductions to Medicare within. One even likened it to Lizzie Borden.
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Lawmakers push Hagel on DoD-VA interoperability

 Anthony Brino April 17, 2013
As news of backlogs in veterans benefits continues to make headlines, lawmakers are pushing for answers on digital information exchange from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel -- who frankly described problems in the plans and cancelled an RFP, saying he'd have clarification plans soon.
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Appeals court affirms HIPAA preemption

 Anthony Brino April 15, 2013
A 1987 Florida law granting family members access to deceased relatives PHI is superseded by HIPAA's more stringent release requirements, a federal appeals court has ruled. The state legislature could fix the issue, the court said.
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Vets mostly found benefits in PHRs, study finds

 Anthony Brino April 11, 2013
In a focus group, veterans who had access to a variety of their healthcare data cited improved communications with their providers and improved self-management.
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Advertising key to enrollment, says former MA HIX director

 Anthony Brino April 10, 2013
As public HIXs race to meet IT deadlines, advertising and outreach should also be priorities if they want to duplicate Massachusetts' enrollment successes, according to the MA Connector's former director.
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Oregon shows costs of putting Medicaid enrollees in private coverage

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org April 01, 2013
The idea of paying for citizens who qualify for Medicaid to buy private insurance has been in place for more than a decade in Oregon. The results are mixed.
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Q&A: On health data 'we can't dream big enough'

 Tom Sullivan March 25, 2013
Pulse8 CEO John Criswell sees plenty of opportunity to harness the information that HIXs and HIEs will have as a means for both bending the cost curve and bettering care quality.
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ACA at 3: HHS's regulatory balance

 Anthony Brino March 22, 2013
While HHS has developed tentative or final regulations for most of the ACA, some are still evolving and may end up tweaked to balance market changes, state participation and stakeholder concerns, as the rulemaking process hints so far.
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ACA at 3: Neither success nor survival a foregone conclusion

 Tom Sullivan March 22, 2013
While Karl Rove maintains that the ACA's future is unsettled, healthcare experts are predicting slow but consistent progress. Does the Obama administration have time enough to guarantee the law long-term?
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

 Tom Sullivan March 21, 2013
No easy answers this week on patient engagement, EHR usability, mobile health questions.
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Some states balk at enforcing health law's insurance protections

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org March 20, 2013
Florida and others are saying they won't penalize insurance companies that violate new health law consumer protections.
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GOP Senators aim to cut health law funding

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org March 11, 2013
Saying that the ACA "is going to be an implementation disaster," that will "hurt our economy severely," Senators including Marco Rubio insist they will only agree to a bill funding the federal government if it contains cuts to spending on the health reform law.
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HIMSS Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action

 Brian Ahier March 06, 2013
Last year HIMSS became a member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and committed to develop and implement the Healthcare Transformation Project (HTP).
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Arkansas proposes integrating Medicaid into HIX

 Anthony Brino February 28, 2013
Arkansas has received a tentative okay from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide Medicaid beneficiaries with subsidized insurance via the state HIX, part of a broader suite of policy transformations the state is pursuing.
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