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FY 2012 GRHA Board of Directors
President
Denise Kornegay
Immediate Past President
Sallie Barker
President Elect
Ann Addison
Treasurer
Sheila Freeman
Secretary
Laura Bland Gillman
Board Members
Carla Belcher
Tim Trottier
Mary Mathis
Sue Nieman
Charles Owens
Chris Parker
Carie Summers
Paula Guy
Monty M. Veazey
Shelley Spires
Joseph Barrow
Robert J. Briscione
Matt Caseman
Meet our Board of Directors
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GRHA Welcomes New Members
Liane Varnes - Student
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ICD-10 Coding Workshop
January 25, 2013
Archbold Memorial Hospital
915 Gordon Ave., Thomasville, GA
Williams Auditorium
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Obama Administration Extends Deadline For State Exchanges --Again
By Phil Galewitz
KHN Staff Writer
NOV 15, 2012
Bowing to a request from Republican governors, the Obama administration announced late Thursday that it would give states more time to decide whether to build online health insurance markets that will help millions of people buy coverage starting next fall.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pushed back the deadline until Dec. 14 for states to submit letters of intent to build the state-based markets, called exchanges. The original deadline had been Friday, Nov. 16.
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Hospitals say health reform work still on track
November 12, 2012 12:10 am The day after President Barack Obama's re-election, publicly traded health care industry stocks shot up. It was a strong indication, one hospital consultant said, that major health systems view the implementation of health reform, or "Obamacare," as a net gain for the industry: Bottom line, it will help expand revenue for hospitals. Tens of millions of uninsured patients will be incorporated into the nation's health system, either joining expanded Medicaid programs or buyasing private insurance through state-level health exchanges.
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UGA policy expert: Affordable Care Act not likely to take effect Jan. 1, 2014
Atlanta Business Chronicle by Carla Caldwell
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Phaedra S. Corso, a University of Georgia health policy expert, says she doesn't expect the Affordable Care Act to take effect Jan. 1, 2014, because of time-consuming work involved in setting up health care exchanges, or marketplaces for private insurance, reports The Gainesville Times.
"In order for that to happen, open enrollment has to occur in October 2013," Corso said Tuesday at a Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce seminar for small businesses on the post-election implications of health care reform. "I don't see any possible way that our state - or many states - is going to be prepared for that.".
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Mark Your Calendar
ICD-10 Coding Workshop/ Georgia Rural Health Association
January 25, 2013
Archbold Memorial Hospital, Williams Auditorium
Register
Rural Health Day at the Capitol
Georgia Rural Health Association
February 20, 2013
Georgia State Capitol
More information coming soon!
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