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Pennsylvania Adult Basic Health Insurance Plan Shuts Down-Ran Out of Money

Former members are being accepted with pre-existing conditions until May 2nd with Blue Cross/Blue Shield who operated the Adult Basic Plan for the state. The plan had over 40,000 subscribers, quite a few. Premiums were are low as $36 a month...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2011 2:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Medicaid, Blue Cross, Budget, policies, funds, Pennsylvania, low income, bare bones, Adult Basic health insurance

Los Angeles REC Center (Medical Records Assistance) is Open for Business HITEC-LA

I try to keep some updates on what’s happening at the ONC created REC centers across the US and everyone is a little different being they are a private enterprise coordinating to help physicians and medical businesses with converting and setting up electronic...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 2:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Training, Medical Records, medicare, EHR, PHR, Medicaid, Los Angeles, Vendors, Meaningful Use, non profits, ONC, stimulus money, REC, members, licensing

Blue Button Mobile Available for Veterans to Download and View Personal Health Records

Northrop Grumman has developed a mobile application called VA-214 whereby personal health records can remotely access MyHealthVet from an Android or iPhone. I have had a series of posts on this topic and you can read more and learn about the...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 2:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, PHR, VA, Medicaid, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CMS, personal heatlh records, mHealth, Blue Button, Northrup Grumman

David Blumenthal, M.D To Step Down As National Coordinator, Health Information Technology In the Spring

The article states that he will be returning to Harvard and this is a tough job to say the least. All over HHS new responsibilities are delving deeper into the actual need to have some hands on experience to help make sense in figuring out what...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 2:22 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Health IT, Medicaid, HHS, Code, Data, Algorithms, children, stimulus, data systems, Meaningful Use, Blumenthal, ONC, bugets, CIOs, bubble

State of the Union Message Was Clearly About Technology and Healthcare For Survival-Blackstone CEO Thoughts Are Positive from Davos (Video)

This was probably the most unique State of the Union message that I have heard and nice to hear all of the technology mentioned including healthcare too. As I watch the camera span the members it was interesting to watch faces and reactions and...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 7:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, VA, Medicaid, CMS, White House, personal heatlh records, Davos, Blue Button, Blackstone, State of the Nation

Resources from ONC and CMS About Meaningful Use–Curated at the Website

Have you not found enough information yet? If you haven’t, well this is the place for you on Meaningful Use. I have a hard enough time curating this information for the Medical Quack and I can’t imagine how providers and hospitals are doing...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 2:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, Health IT, Medicaid, HHS, Code, Data, Algorithms, children, stimulus, data systems, Meaningful Use, ONC, bugets, CIOs, bubble

New York City Being Sued By the Feds for Over Billing Medicaid– Whistleblower Case

Among the issued cited by the federal government were the accusations that the city ignored rules requiring recommendations from doctors, nurses and social workers before patients could be enrolled in the home care programs. On other occasions the doctor...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 3:33 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Lawsuit, Medicaid, New York City, mental heatlh, fraud Home Care

CMS States Over 4,000 Providers Have Registered for EHR Medical Records Incentives-First Incentives Paid Out Last Week

The entire incentive package goes up to as high as $44,000 for Medicare and up to $63,000 from Medicaid for using electronic medical records. Hospitals of course stand to gain much in the way of incentives for their incentives. The longer...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 4:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, Health IT, Medicaid, CMS, e-MDs, Doctors, Patients, stimulus, ARRA, HITECH, EHR incentive

Arizona: Second Denied Transplant Patient Dies Due to Budget Cuts-The Real Death Panels Reside with Governor Brewer

This patient lived in Tucson and was denied a transplant due to the October 1st budget cuts. I have no idea what is wrong with Jan Brewer and how she can live with herself with doing this, but as I said before, when you have IT illiterate people...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 11:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Medicaid, Budgets, Heatlhcare, Politics, Algorithms, Arizona, digital literacy, healthcare reform, duh, Gordon Brown, death panels, Jan Brewer, non partcipants, edcuation

Healthcare Reform Putting Additional Pressure on Public and Medicaid CIOs-The Health IT Bubble Gets Closer As Money And Digital Literacy is Scarce

I’ll go back to this one more time and again mention how valuable those with Health IT experience are today. I said this back two years ago after the election that folks with hands on IT experience were needed and that figure heads should be out...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 12:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, Health IT, Medicaid, HHS, Code, Data, Algorithms, children, stimulus, data systems, ONC, bugets, CIOs, bubble

HMO Patient Receives Letter from HMO in Michigan To Discontinue Life Saving Medication-Patient Being Denied Access Via The “Guideline Algorithm”

Here we go again with technology making automated decisions and this is where a person needs to step in and review the chart, history and information. Guidelines were established by either an insurance company study or one accessed elsewhere and then...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 12:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, HMO, Diabetes, Medicaid, Medications, Algorithms, Greed, Michigan, treatments, ethics, denial of care, pulmonary vasculary disease

Insurers Setting Up to Bid on State Medicaid Plans-Bring in IT Infrastructure and Data Systems to Run It on Outsourced Basis

Today we had the announcement of CMS to begin their IT Infrastructure upgrade and again this is after 8 years of asleep at the wheel by a prior administration and it’s catch up time and it’s not pretty. Now the insurers are feeding on states wanting...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 10:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, medicare, EHR, Claims, Medicaid, Non Profit, Algorithms, incentives, Wellpoint, Contracts, Ingenix, healthcare reform, shareholders, United Heatlhcare

CMS Releases Plan for a Much Needed IT Infrastructure Upgrade With Computers, Data Systems And Those Updated Algorithms

One of the most valuable additions will be adding “business intelligence” those algorithms that analyze and help create reports and find fraud. As we all know patching only goes so far and then it’s time for the entire remake. This is probably...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 4:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, medicare, Business Intelligence, Medicaid, CMS, Data Centers, Servers, Algorithms, subsidiary watch, data stores

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer-Rootin’ Tootin’ IT Illiteracy Riding High Lacking Digital Literacy With Budget Algorithmic Solutions to Find Funding for Transplant Patients

Here we go once more with the inability to come to the conclusion and reality of how technology and it’s use is impacting our daily lives. I write about this all the time and how it created unintended consequences and some of them are to the point...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 3:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, My Commentaries, Medicaid, Budgets, Heatlhcare, Politics, Algorithms, Arizona, digital literacy, healthcare reform, duh, Gordon Brown, death panels, Jan Brewer, non partcipants, edcuation

VA Blue Button Update–If You are a Vet or an MD Seeing a Vet Get the Health Data Available With Patient Ability to Download (Video)

I have posted on this topic a few times but the White House has released a video that gives a quick over view and man Vets have ben able to retrieve their information to keep or choose to share with their doctors. If you are a private practice doctor...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 6:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, PHR, VA, Medicaid, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CMS, White House, personal heatlh records, Blue Button

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