By Wendy Parmet After the November election, President Obama’s executive order implementing parts of the so-called “Dream Act” was widely credited with shoring up his support within the Latino community. Less often noted was his Administration’s decision to exclude the “Dreamers” from the benefits afforded by the Affordable Care Act. Last August, the Center for…
By Casey Thomson This week’s Twitter Round-Up features an “American Idol-style” selection of research grant winners, the problems facing children in Syria attempting to be vaccinated, and a review of where we stand with current patient health information privacy and security. Michelle Meyer (@MichelleNMeyer) retweeted an article about a newly emerging landmark case in…
By Nicolas Terry Today the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the Department of Health and Human Services released a report, here, that is decidedly critical of CMS and ONC oversight of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) subsidy program. Over the last couple of years there have been growing criticisms of the Meaningful Use program and…
By Nicolas Terry As is well known ACA § 3025 (§1886(q) Social Security Act) established the Hospital Readmissions Reduction program. This is operationalized through deductions built into the Hospital IPPS (Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems) Rule which sets the Medicare reimbursement amounts, here. The excess readmissions ratio initially only applies to readmissions based on MI, Heart Failure,…
