C. Salimbene, Esq.
Christine Salimbene, Vice President & General Counsel Ms. Salimbene joined MTBC in 2009 as General Counsel, Vice President and Company Secretary. She and her team focus on mitigating business risk and ensuring compliance with all legal requirements.
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Where GOP Presidential Hopefuls Stand On Health Care
Sep 13th
Kaiser Health News has assembled a helpful chart detailing where five of the declared candidates for the Republican presidential nomination – Bachmann, Hutsman, Paul, Perry and Romney – currently stand on major health care issues. The chart is sorted by issue and will be updated as the candidates continue to develop their platform. Definitely worth a look.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2011/August/26/GOP-candidate-health-care-platforms.aspx
Christine Salimbene, Vice President & General Counsel
Ms. Salimbene joined MTBC in 2009 as General Counsel, Vice President and Company Secretary. She and her team focus on mitigating business risk and ensuring compliance with all legal requirements.
New EHR-sharing plan introduced by Highmark
Aug 22nd
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (8/20, Nixon) reports that Pennslyvania’s largest health insurer, Highmark Inc., “is developing its own network to allow doctors and hospitals across Pennsylvania to easily share electronic health records.”
Although Highmark “is not ready to release details of the network, known as a health information exchange, such as cost or the hospital systems or software provider involved” a spokesman for the insurer said the network “is planned to be available to hospitals and doctors across the state.”
Highmark is Pennsylvania’s largest health insurer with more than 4 million members in the state.
As discussed in a previous post, the federal government is pushing exchanges and electronic medical records as ways to reduce medical errors, prevent duplicative treatment and reduce costs. The Tribune- Review reports that the anticipated interoperability of the exchanges with electronic medical records are “envisioned as being analogous to the world’s banking system, in which bank transactions are performed electronically and easily occur between different institutions.” Additionally, “[a]n exchange would allow a doctor to quickly pull medical records for a patient he or she is treating, no matter where that patient may have been treated in the past.”
For more information:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_752483.html#ixzz1VmhYvU00
Christine Salimbene, Vice President & General Counsel
Ms. Salimbene joined MTBC in 2009 as General Counsel, Vice President and Company Secretary. She and her team focus on mitigating business risk and ensuring compliance with all legal requirements.
Affordability: The Future of Health Insurance
Aug 15th
The Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury have taken the next steps in establishing Affordable Insurance Exchanges – State-based competitive marketplaces, which launch in 2014, designed to provide individuals and small businesses with access to one-stop marketplaces where they can choose a private health insurance plan that fits their needs and offers the same kind of insurance choices as members of Congress.
This past Friday, HHS awarded $185 million to 13 states and the District of Columbia to help them build the Exchanges and, with Treasury, posted three proposed rules that will provide a simple, streamlined, and affordable path for consumers to use the Exchanges to purchase private health insurance. The proposed rules describe how middle-class families will gain access to unprecedented tax relief that will dramatically reduce the cost of coverage.
The Affordable Care Act, which President Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010, creates the Exchanges. More than half the states have already taken action to begin building an Exchange and the new grant awards will accelerate that progress. The Exchange Establishment grants awarded today build on earlier investments in states. In 2010, HHS awarded 49 states and the District of Columbia $50 million to begin planning their Exchanges. HHS expects to make more grant awards in coming months.
Christine Salimbene, Vice President & General Counsel