This Legal Notes examines the final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the Electronic Health Record meaningful use, Stage 1 incentive program. It looks at the implications the rule has for the Medicaid program specifically, and challenges the rule may impose on states and Medicaid providers.
Author: Burke, T, Stewart, A, Cartwright-Smith, L.
Publication: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
This analysis piece examines the Meaningful Use rule, as established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as well as provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that relate to Health Information Technology.
This Legal Notes examines the various provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that are aimed at improving health disparities based on race and ethnicity. The ACA contains a number of provisions that emphasize the quality of health care delivered, increasing the minority health care workforce population, and data collection and reporting on race, ethnicity, sex and primary language.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided billions of dollars in new health and health care spending and made comprehensive reforms in health law and policy. This brief summarizes key elements in the Act, including comparative effectiveness research coordination, modifications to the health care tax credit and investments in community health centers and the primary health care workforce. The associated chart provides a side-by-side comparison of the major HIT, public health, Medicaid, and COBRA provisions in the House legislation, Senate legislation, and final conference agreement.
This article provides a brief overview of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed rule implementing the Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations, as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The article includes a definition of an Accountable Care Organization, eligibility criteria, and the basic structure of the shared savings program.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided billions of dollars in new health and health care spending. The Act appropriates funding to support and coordinate comparative effectiveness research, which compares treatment and strategies for improving health outcomes. This brief examines the Act's comparative effectiveness provisions.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided billions of dollars in new health and health care spending. This brief examines the Act's reforms to existing laws related to health information privacy and security, and in particular, its revisions to HIPAA.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided billions of dollars in new health and health care spending. The Act contains numerous health information technology-related provisions, and this brief examines the provisions that create a new federal infrastructure for setting HIT policy and standards and that encourage adoption and meaningful use of HIT.
The application of antitrust law to the health care market is a complex undertaking, given the privacy concerns inherent in the relationship between patients and health care providers and the unique nature of the health care market. This policy brief examines antitrust considerations that arise in health system transformation aimed at producing greater clinical integration and greater levels of information about the quality and cost of care.
This Legal Notes examines opportunities presented by the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to use Medicare and private payer claims data for provider quality measurement and public reporting on those measures. New payment structures, such as value based purchasing, have created new opportunities to improve health care quality while lowering costs.
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