Featured Report: Should Small Businesses Really Fear Obamacare?

Slate
July,02, 2012
By: Matthew Yglesias
The official plaintiff in the Obamacare case was the main small-business lobbying organization. In fact, the new health care law should be a boon to entrepreneurs.
The landmark health care case decided last week by the Supreme Court was a win for the Obama administration and a loss for the Republican Party. But the official plaintiff in the case wasn’t a Republican congressional leader or even one of the conservative attorneys general whose activism fueled the litigation. It was the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a small-business membership organization and lobbying group that strongly opposed the law. So is defeat a disaster for small business? Almost certainly not, though it may prove to be a disaster for NFIB’s main policy priority of low taxes. Read Complete Article

This Week's Healthcare News
iHealthBeat
Mich. Gov. Signs Bills Promoting Insurance Coverage of Telehealth
July,05,2012
Last week, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) signed two bills (HB 5408, HB 5421) designed to expand the use of telehealth services in the state, Crain's Detroit Business reports. The bills seek to address inconsistencies in health care provider reimbursements. Lawmakers say they hope the legislation will encourage health insurers to cover telehealth services. According to state Rep. Gail Haines (R), the bills would expand private coverage of telehealth services because they would prevent insurers from requiring face-to-face contact between health care providers and patients to cover treatments.
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MobiHealthNews
ACA presents golden opportunity for wireless, mobile health
By: Neil Versel
July,05,2012
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act certainly was stunning. Who really expected Chief Justice John Roberts to side with the liberal wing of the court? How many people thought that the reasoning would be that the individual mandate was a legal exercise of Congress’ power to levy taxes? Similarly, the decision was polarizing. Plenty of President Obama’s supporters narrow-mindedly thought that the ruling assures that millions of currently uninsured Americans would now be guaranteed access to good healthcare. A lot of wacko detractors claimed that the Supreme Court killed freedom and set the United States upon a path to fulfill Comrade Obama’s supposed desire to turn this nation into the Soviet Union.
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
eHealth raises ethical questions for docs
July, 03, 2012
By: Susan D. Hall
Physicians who use online consultations for patients when they haven't first treated those patient in person face ethical challenges, according to an open forum discussion at the recent American Medical Association Annual Meeting, American Medical News reports. "There is a potential conflict between the ethical and legal practice of medicine on the Internet," Ron Clearfield, a radiologist and member of the council, told the forum, noting that 10 states allow limited telemedicine licensure. "Although doctors may be legally permitted to engage in online consultation, it doesn't mean that they ethically should do so," he said.
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Healthcare Professiinals

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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.

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