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Not all embrace electronic health record law

Becky Gillette — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:44:08 +0000

While physicians and medical practices are eligible for federal grants to institute electronic health records, not everyone is convinced that it will make for a better medical practice. Dr. Dwalia S. South, North Mississippi Primary Care in Ripley, who has been transitioning to EHRs in the past six months, describes it as one of the [...]

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Analysis of Medicaid expansion under final review

Ted Carter — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 06:01:58 +0000

Economic experts are reviewing a completed state study examining the fiscal implications for Mississippi in expanding Medicaid rolls under federal Affordable Care Act. In the balance is an infusion of $9 billion of federal money into Mississippi’s health care sector to help fund an expansion of Medicaid eligibly to include at least 250,000 low-and-moderate-income working [...]

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Affordable Care Act’s taxing nature poorly hidden

Ted Carter — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:01:40 +0000

Pepper Crutcher, a labor and employment law attorney in Balch & Bingham’s Jackson office, finished reading Chief Justice John G. Roberts’ opinion on the Affordable Care Act by mid-morning of its June 28 issuance. One clear conclusion, according to Crutcher, is that Roberts knows a tax when he sees one. Call Obamacare’s health-care mandate whatever [...]

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Judge puts brakes on portion of state’s healthcare reform lawsuit

Associated Press — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:49:05 +0000

HATTIESBURG — A federal judge has put on hold portions of a Mississippi lawsuit against Obama administration’s healthcare law. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, in a ruling issued Nov. 23, stayed consideration of parts of the April 2010 lawsuit not involving medical privacy issues. He said those issues were pending before the Supreme Court in [...]

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Judge allows healthcare reform lawsuit to go forward

Associated Press — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:55:43 +0000

HATTIESBURG — A federal judge will allow a lawsuit filed in Mississippi challenging part of the Obama administration’s healthcare law to continue. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, in a ruling issued Aug. 29, denied the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Starrett dismissed some claims by the plaintiffs but refused to dismiss the medical [...]

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Chaney goes to D.C. to talk healthcare reform

For the MBJ — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:04:05 +0000

WASHINGTON — Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney and fellow members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) were in Washington, D.C., last week to confer with members of Congress about ongoing financial and health reform efforts. More than 35 state insurance regulators gathered for the NAIC Washington Forum where they were briefed by [...]

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Singing River asking county for loan for healthcare mandates

Associated Press — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:28:14 +0000

PASCAGOULA — Singing River Health System officials say they need a $37.5-million loan, with most of the money needed to meet President Barack Obama’s impending health care mandates. The Mississippi Press reports hospital representatives asked Jackson County supervisors yesterday for a bond issuance. The largest portion of the money — $22 million — would be [...]

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Cochran co-sponsors bill to kill healthcare reform provision

For the MBJ — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:06:15 +0000

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) voted to repeal a section of the year-old healthcare reform law that would have required businesses, local governments, churches and charities to file Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1099 forms for transactions totaling more than $600 a year. The Senate voted 87-12 April 5 to fully repeal the IRS [...]

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House lawmakers approve insurance exchange plan

Associated Press — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:45:39 +0000

JACKSON — The Mississippi House has approved a plan that would allow employers to buy group health insurance policies anywhere in the country, not just from Mississippi insurers. The House, by an 83-33 margin yesterday, passed a bill to enact a health insurance exchange in Mississippi. Backers say the health insurance exchange is a critical [...]

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Barbour lists problems with healthcare reform

Wally Northway — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:29:01 +0000

JACKSON — Gov. Haley Barbour and 19 other Republican governors have submitted a list of potential healthcare law improvements for the administration to consider, if the law passed last year by the Democratic Congress isn’t repealed or struck down by the courts. “In addition to its constitutional infringements, we believe the system proposed by the [...]

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