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The Individual Mandate: Another Look at the Penalty Trade-Off
By ROGER COLLIER Most of the recent attention on the 2010 health care reform legislation has focused on the individual mandate. After two federal court rulings upholding the mandate, a third federal...
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OCR Imposes $4.3M Penalty for Violation of HIPAA/HITECH Privacy Rule
By BOB COFFIELD UNTIL TODAY, many health care providers questioned whether HHS and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) would ever issue any significant penalties for violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule....
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Are Hospital Business Models on a Burning Platform? Not Yet, But It’s...
By Vince Kuraitis From reading recent headlines, one might easily get the impression that hospitals are resistant — or at least ambivalent — in their pursuit and adoption of accountable care...
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Out of the Box Thinking on Avoiding Hospital Readmissions. Stop Trying
By Dr. Wes As a cardiac electrophysiologist, I’m pretty far removed from public policy. But I have to admit that I was interested in the latest move by CMS to cut their Medicare payment rates to...
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Repairing ObamaCare
By John Goodman In the aftermath of the recent election, virtually all commentators were quick to conclude that ObamaCare has been saved. The health reform law can now go forward and Republicans are...
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