by Associated Press Published: August 2,2010
Tags: healthcare, healthcare overhaul, healthcare reform, Medicare
WASHINGTON — The new health overhaul law will start producing savings for Medicare right away, and over time add 12 years of solvency to the program’s giant trust fund for inpatient care, the Obama administration says in a report to be released today. Medicare will save about $8 billion by the end of next year, [...] [...]
by Becky Gillette Published: August 1,2010
Tags: healthcare reform, Mississippi Hospital Association, Moody’s Investors Service, Non-profit hospitals, Shannon Coker
Organizations waiting for specific instructions Healthcare financial experts have raised concerns about how non-profit hospitals will be impacted by healthcare reform that will bring difficult challenges of reduced payments while hospitals are also being tasked to improve efficiency. Moody’s Investors Service warns stand-alone community hospitals could suffer, which might force spending cuts and mergers among [...] [...]
by Amy McCullough Published: August 1,2010
Tags: Emergency Room, FQHCs, Health Department, healthcare reform, Healthy Linkages, Michael Jones, Mississippi Healthy Linkages Project, Mississippi Primary Health Care Association, patient referral, UMMC, University of Mississippi Medical Center
In Sept. 2008, the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson began an innovative program to match Emergency Room patients with preventative care physicians in medical homes. Now the hospital believes it is seeing positive results. UMMC sees more than 100,000 ER patients a year. More than 30,000 of those patients are uninsured, and about [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 9,2010
JACKSON — An uninsured Mississippian diagnosed with cancer can now obtain healthcare coverage and start filing claims for treatment almost immediately. That is how a new program offered by the healthcare reform bill will work, says Lanny Craft, executive director of the separate and already existing Mississippi Comprehensive Health Insurance Risk Pool Association. The new [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: June 20,2010
Tags: healthcare reform, Mississippi State Medical Association, Tim J. Alford
State Medical Association president sees both sides for Mississippi with healthcare reform With some language of the federal Health Care Reform Act not going into effect until 2014, physicians in Mississippi are not sure at this point what the impact will be to patient care and their practices. Tim J. Alford, M.D., is the new [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: May 14,2010
Tags: healthcare, healthcare reform, insurance, lawsuit
JACKSON — Gov. Haley Barbour, on behalf of the State of Mississippi, today joined the multi-state, bipartisan lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal healthcare law passed earlier this year. “The Health Care Law passed earlier this year is an unprecedented expansion of federal power,” Barbour said. “The Constitution does not give Congress or the [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: May 12,2010
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and ranking member on the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, is predicting that unfunded costs for implementing and paying for the nation’s new healthcare reform law will put new pressure on the federal budget—and Congress. In a letter to Cochran, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 14,2010
Tags: doctor shortage, healthcare, healthcare reform, nursing shortage
JACKSON — With a looming shortage of primary care doctors, 28 states, including Mississippi, are considering expanding the authority of nurse practitioners. These nurses with advanced degrees want the right to practice without a doctor’s watchful eye and to prescribe narcotics. And if they hold a doctorate, they want to be called “doctor.” For years, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 14,2010
Tags: healthcare, healthcare reform, lawsuit
JACKSON — Gov. Haley Barbour says it will probably be mid-May when he joins a multi-state lawsuit challenging a federal health care overhaul. More than a dozen other states have already joined the federal suit filed by Florida. Republican Barbour originally asked Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood to represent Mississippi. Hood said April 9 that [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 12,2010
Tags: healthcare, healthcare reform, lawsuit, state government
Mississippi’s Democratic attorney general said Friday he would not try to stop the Republican governor from joining a multi-state lawsuit challenging a federal health care overhaul. Gov. Haley Barbour says he intends to join the lawsuit when the lead state, Florida, amends its original court filing. It’s not clear when that might happen. In late [...] [...]
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