This week in health equity and access: Medicaid cuts; mailed FIT outreach; EEOC pregnancy rules; GLP-1 Bridge access; and 2027 policy shifts.
|Articles|September 18, 2012
A Major Glitch for Digitized Healthcare Records
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In two years, hundreds of thousands of American physicians and thousands of hospitals that fail to buy and install costly health-care information technologies—such as digital records for prescriptions and patient histories—will face penalties through reduced Medicare and Medicaid payments. At the same time, the government expects to pay out tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and incentives to providers who install these technology programs.
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Source: The Wall Street Journal
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