Having private or public health insurance does not eliminate consumer medical debt because plan design, provider price variation, and patients who experience transitions in coverage, for example, also impinge on an individual’s ability to timely pay for medical care. In Massachusetts, the...
Access to healthcare insurance supports our local communities and Massachusetts’ infrastructure and economy. Health care is also prerequisite for residents to uphold productive lives, and it preserves individual liberties and happiness. Unmet healthcare needs, on the other hand, stigmatize...
I recently moderated the Second Annual Cybersecurity and Healthcare panel discussion, produced by HITECH Answers , with some all-star panelists: Mac McMillan, Lee Barrett, Bridget Wahlstrom and Iliana Peters. We discussed a range of current issues, and prognosticated about the future. Check out...
Where are we with respect to eligibility and access to public health insurance for all Massachusetts residents? The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) continues to dominate federal reimbursements to the Commonwealth regarding public health insurance...
We are awash in digital health data. And we are awash in multiple regulatory schemas designed to protect privacy, security and appropriate access to all this data. Some data is “traditional” health care data governed by the familiar patchwork of federal and state statutes and regulations ...
OCR issued guidance on ransomware this week (link goes to blog post; here’s a direct link to the ransomware guidance ), after a widely-reported spate of ransomware attacks hit the healthcare industry (and as a likely large proportion of healthcare operations experience ransomware attacks but...
Well, here we are. A newly-selected Speaker of the House, beholden to a right-wing minority faction, appears to have broken faith with his broader constituency in the course of brokering his first budget deal. Setting aside for the moment the question of delaying implementation of two key...
The Medicare Shared Savings Program is intended to lower costs and improve quality. If program participants succeed in meeting these goals, they are able to share in the savings — calculated by comparison to expected Medicare FFS expenditures for the same population if folks were not...
I recently hosted a Google Hangout on Air entitled Patient Reviews of Physicians: The Wisdom of the Crowd? (presented by The Harlow Group LLC in association with The Society for Participatory Medicine ). I spoke with Niam Yaraghi (Center for Technology Innovation, The...
I spoke with Farzad Mostashari six months back about the proposed revisions to the ACO / MSSP regs. The final regs are out now -- See the presser and the full ACO / MSSP reg . -- The Accountable Care Organization regulations were first...
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