Physician acceptance of new Medicaid patients has shown to be lower than acceptance of new Medicare patients or new privately insured patients. Acceptance of new Medicaid patients also has shown to be lower in states with lower Medicaid payment rates to physicians. Using the 2013 National Electronic Health Records Survey (NEHRS), this report summarizes physician acceptance of new patients with ...

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information ("health data privacy regulations")' pursuant to a congressional mandate in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). 2 These regulations, promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), represent the first systematic national privacy protec-tions of health information. They p...

In this paper we discuss that software processes for the development of electronic commerce systems are different from software processes for other kinds of information systems. We underpin this assumption by discussing an example software process and software architecture. This example is driven by real-world requirements. It is the development of a portal solution which is to be used by sales...

Introduction Direct primary care (DPC), a fee for membership type of practice, is an evolving innovative primary care delivery model. Little is known about current membership fees, insurance billing status, physician training, and patient panel size in DPC practices. This study aimed to obtain current data for these variables, as well as additional demographic and financial indicators, and rela...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between insurance type (Medicaid vs private insurance) and access to physician care for youth with type 2 diabetes mellitus by quantifying whether these youth saw a physician during the year before their first diabetes documentation. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS Youth with Medicaid or private insurance aged 5 to 19 years with type 2...

Rationale: One in three Americans under 65 years of age does not have health insurance during some portion of each year. Patients who are critically ill and lack health insurance may be at particularly high risk of morbidity and mortality due to the high cost of intensive care. Objectives: To systematically review the medical and nonmedical literature to determine whether differences in critica...

This article explores the challenges inherent in linking data from disparate sources-electronic medical records (EMR) and health insurer claims-and the probable benefits of doing so to evaluate several quality measures associated with diabetes. Using the business associate agreement provision of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, we were able to link health insurer claims ...