by For the MBJ Published: March 29,2013
Tags: accounting, Affordable Care Act, healthcare, HORNE LLP, John Scott, Obamacare
Three years ago this month, one of the most significant changes in the U.S. health care system in history was signed into law. On March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) became a fact of life. Its opponents challenged its constitutionality and lost at the Supreme Court in June of last [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: March 15,2013
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, healthcare, Medicaid expansion, Mississippi State Legislature, Obamacare, Phil Bryant, Tate Reeves
The Mississippi Legislature is set to adjourn April 7 with no deal in sight on a federal offer to expand Medicaid. The ticking clock has executives of hospitals around the state worried that time will expire and hospitals and the entire health care sector will suffer the consequences, putting about 9,000 jobs at risk. Ahead [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: February 22,2013
Tags: Affordable Care Act, healthcare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Phil Bryant
The number of governors refusing to accept the federal offer of hundreds of millions of dollars for expanding Medicaid to their state’s working poor is dwindling, with Florida Gov. Rick Scott last Wednesday joining Ohio’s Gov. John Kasich and Michigan’s Rick Snyder in accepting the offer. More than two dozen governors continue to hold out [...] [...]
by Emily W. Pettus Published: February 1,2013
Tags: healthcare, Kaiser Commission, Obamacare, Phil Bryant, Signing River Health System
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant wants to create more health care jobs in Mississippi, one of the poorest and most medically under-served states in the nation. He also opposes putting more Mississippi residents on Medicaid under the federal health care law that Democratic President Barack Obama signed in 2010, even with the federal government paying most [...] [...]
by Becky Gillette Published: December 14,2012
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 [...] [...]
by Becky Gillette Published: December 14,2012
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Dwalia South, Mississippi State Medical Association, Obamacare
Recent polling indicates as many as 83 percent of doctors across the country are unhappy with the Affordable Care Act and some doctors are even saying that it will result in them retiring early. In states like Mississippi with shortages of physicians, that could make a bad situation worse. There was discussion before the election [...] [...]
by Becky Gillette Published: November 2,2012
Tags: Affordable Care Act, healthcare, Medicaid, Obamacare, University Research Center
The proposed Medicaid expansion that is part of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, would add 400,000 state residents to Medicaid, which a University Research Center report predicts would create 9,000 new jobs in Mississippi. Former state economist Phil Pepper points out that is as many jobs as generated by the Nissan and [...] [...]
by Alan Turner Published: October 29,2012
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Center for Mississippi Health Policy, health insurance, healthcare, Kaiser Family Foundation, Mark Baker, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, Sherry Pitts, Therese Hanna, U.S. Supreme Court, Woman's Hospital
There are few issues that are more important or pressing for Mississippi businesses and consumers than the question of health care. As most of us are aware, the Magnolia State ranks far down the list in terms of the health of our population. Obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer — these are generally more impacting on [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: October 29,2012
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Mississippi Hospital Association, Mississippi Institutes of Higher Learning, Obamacare
A math problem with a very big human element. That is a description an executive with the Mississippi Hospital Association recently gave the question of whether the state should expand its Medicaid rolls to include several hundred thousand of Mississippi low-income residents. The math part of the question came closer to an answer last week [...] [...]
by Emily W. Pettus Published: October 7,2012
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, BGR, Butler Snow, Haley Barbour, Obamacare, Republican party, Todd Akin
In some scenarios, Haley Barbour would have been traveling the United States these days as the Republican nominee for president. Instead, he’s on the sidelines doing what he does best — dispensing political advice for GOP loyalists. Since finishing his second term as Mississippi governor in January, Barbour has been in demand as a talk [...] [...]
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