Featured Report: Billions of Dollars Are in Play Over Health Care Law
New York Times/Health
June,21, 2012
By: REED ABELSON
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — In this small city about an hour from Manhattan, pregnant teenagers, laid-off professionals and day laborers without insurance receive care at a community health center that has been part of the social fabric here for nearly four decades. Because of the sweeping federal health care law passed two years ago, the center, part of the Hudson River HealthCare network, received a $4.5 million grant last month to expand. It plans to add six more medical and seven more dental exam rooms, allowing it to see as many as 5,000 additional patients, many of whom are without insurance, on Medicaid or have limited coverage. An additional 730 community centers or so like it are to be renovated or built across the country in the next two years for patients like that.
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Healthcare Info Security
Updated HIE Guidance Focuses on Trust
By:Jeffrey Roman
June,22,2012
The Markle Foundation's updated guidance on health information exchange privacy and security policies and practices is designed to help "develop an environment of trust," says Laura Bailyn, the foundation's senior director for health initiatives. The foundation has updated its Common Framework, launched in 2006 to spell out the elements of a comprehensive approach for secure health information sharing, Bailyn explains in an interview with Information Security Media Group's Howard Anderson
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Med City News
Preventing fraud: How much do medical practices lose and why?
By: B. J. Hoffman
June,22,2012
Medical practices and healthcare organizations are likely losing 5 percent of annual revenues to fraud, waste and abuse, according to the most recent study conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The numbers are truly staggering: A practice with revenues of $10 million loses an average of a half million dollars annually! Many years, these amounts will be the difference between surpluses and deficits. In today’s challenging economy, and with declining reimbursement rates, such losses can result in a practice’s disintegration.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Providers see Medicare, insurer revenue growth quicken: S&P
June, 20, 2012
By:Melanie Evans
The rate of growth in Medicare and commercial insurer revenue for hospitals and healthcare professionals accelerated during the year that ended in April, according to the Standard & Poor's Healthcare Economic Indices. The rating agency's healthcare composite index for the 12-month period ended in April climbed 6.14%. That's compared with the 5.65% increase for the year that ended in March. Medicare fee-for-service revenue for hospitals and healthcare professionals increased 2.6% during the 12 months ended in April and commercial revenue climbed 8.46%, according to the indices, which estimate the average per capita change in revenue.
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Healthcare Professionals!
If you think that you can create a secure and compliant healthcare network with off-the-shelf IT products or free online web-based applications and still pass a HIPAA audit? Please read the articles below:
Modern Physician.com
Ariz. doc practice to pay $100,000 in HIPAA settlement
By: Joseph Conn
April, 17, 2012
Using a Web-based, electronic patient scheduling system without appropriate privacy protections has led to an Arizona medical practice reaching a $100,000 settlement with the federal government over potential privacy and security violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HHS announced.
Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, of Phoenix and Prescott, Ariz., agreed to pay HHS and take corrective actions to protect patient information after an investigation by HHS' Office for Civil Rights, which has privacy and security rule enforcement duties under HIPAA.
Healthcare Info Security
Arrest in S.C. Medicaid Info Breach
April,19,2012
By: Howard Anderson
A former South Carolina state employee has been arrested for allegedly transferring personal information about more than 228,000 Medicaid recipients to his personal e-mail account. The information inappropriately transferred in the breach incident, according to the South Carolina Department of Health & Human Services, includes names, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and Medicaid ID numbers. For almost 23,000 of the affected patients, Medicare numbers, which contain Social Security numbers, also were transferred. No private medical records or financial information was involved, authorities say. Nevertheless, the state is offering all those affected a year's worth of free identity protection services.
How We can help
As you can see in the articles above, security breaches can happen to any size healthcare facility, large or small. The fines in both cases are large from $100,000.00 for small practices to up to $250.00 per person breached in larger facilities. Yet all of this can be avoided if a complete healthcare IT security plan is put in place to protect your patients and your practice. So don't make a million-dollar mistake by trying to create a DIY system.
Let us help. Wirehead Technology's Healthcare IT Managed Services are designed for single doctors' offices and small clinics .We have a complete ONC Certified SAS 70 Type II EMR Services, HIPAA complaint phones systems, computer systems from servers to tablets, security systems from firewalls to anti-virus, secure cloud-based EMR, EMR training for you and your staff, and before and after IT consulting services that will manage your system that will allow you to take care of your patients knowing that their information will be safe and secure.
Now about the prices. Our services can be purchased outright or you can lease our services as a pay-as-you-go plan that will fit your budget.
Best of all, many of our services qualify for the EHR Incentive Program from Medicare and Medicaid that will reimburse you up to $63,000.00 over five years. So why should you take the chance of doing your IT wrong and getting hit with a fine that could cripple your practice when there is help available to you as close as your phone or computer? Call us today and let one of our IT consultants go over your practice to see how we can help you. Remember, doing IT alone WILL cost you BIG in the end. Call Us Today.
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Wirehead Technology
Email:wireheadtec@gmail.com
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