tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 25

Bills Would Boost Health IT

Legislation aimed at boosting information technology seems likely to have a place in any Medicare reform bill, say Washington insiders.Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), chairman of the Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, introduced the "Healthcare Information Technology Quality and Improvement Act of 2005," with ranking member Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA). The bill would require health IT systems to work with all other systems, and authorize a national health IT contractor and a "Best Practices Center." The Enzi-Kennedy bill also would provide grants to help providers move to health IT systems.The Grassley-Baucus pay-for-performance bill also...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Part B Insider.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI’s Part B Insider will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4800 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles

This feature is currently unavailable for online purchase. For more information, please call 801-770-4203 or Contact Us.

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.