PPACA Justice Ginsburg: Conservative Approach is to Salvage
PPACA - "the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything."
Justices Debate Minimum Coverage Severability
Edwin Kneedler argued on behalf of the Obama Administration. He argued that if the minimum coverage provision should fall, the guaranteed-issue and community rating rules should fall as well as “that is one package that Congress deemed essential.”
Affordable Care Act – Unintended Effects
We remain hopeful that the electronic efficiencies of PPACA remain, such as Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records, whatever the final outcome.
Justice Kennedy Questions Justification for Individual Mandate in Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) may not stand in whole or in part, depending on the severability determination of the Supreme Court.
Anti-Injunction Act Bars Litigation of Affordable Care Act?
An amicus curiae or "friend of the court" brief focused on whether the Court may leave PPACA in effect even if it determines that requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty is unconstitutional.
PPACA Supreme Court Hearings Coverage in Social Media Need Holistic View
If The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is repealed it will be interesting to see if it is repealed in whole or in part. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) may excise the individual mandate requiring health insurance coverage, or it could strike it down entirely.
Meaningful Use Assessment
The HITECH Act provides incentives for Medicare and Medicaid providers to achieve Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records. Meaningful Use Assessment should include these phases and components:
ICD-10 Readiness Survey Shows Industry Not Ready
ICD-10 readiness information collected from 2,600 providers, health plans and vendors indicates that the industry would not have been ready on time for ICD-10 according to the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).
ICD-10 Claim Date of Service Spans Mandate, Mapping ICD-10 to ICD-9 Auto Adjudication Questions Posted
In the ICD-10 Consortium social network this week, health plans posted questions regarding processing ICD-10 claims that have date of service periods that span the mandated timeline as well as an outreach to other health plans regarding the pros and cons of receiving an ICD-10 claim, mapping it to an ICD-9 to adjudicate it. Also, ICD-10 is expected to impact auto adjudication rates for plans.