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Stimulus Funds Will Build State Health Exchanges But Might Not Sustain Them
The $548 million in grants available to states to set up information exchanges about patients will run out in 2015, and state officials are concerned about how they will keep paying once the federal money is gone. States are looking for where else they can get the money from, such as charging subscription and per-transaction fees from providers.
“The problem is that I don’t know whether all the states are working to see what the best model is … I think probably they need more guidance on which models work and which models don’t,” said John Derr, a consultant at Golden Living LLC and member of the Standards Committee for health information technology.
Read the full story here: http://healthcareitnews.com/news/stimulus-funds-will-build-state-health-exchanges-might-not-sustain-them
Source: Healthcare IT News
Varied Access: The Pharmacogenetic Testing Coverage Divide
February 18th 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the author of a study published in the February 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® to uncover significant differences in coverage decisions for pharmacogenetic tests across major US health insurers.
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