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Exchange 2013, A Nevada Health Link Summit
Thursday, June 13, 2013
8:00 - 5:00 p.m. (PT)
You're invited to join Nevada's Exchange staff and board, healthcare professionals, and legal and insurance experts to discover how Nevada Health Link's online health insurance exchange is connecting Nevadans to the health insurance resources and information they need. Also, learn the rules and regulations vital to businesses' compliance with Affordable Care Act's provisions. Hear from other states' exchange leaders, and get the answers to the questions you have about Nevada Health Link, the state's online marketplace.
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Your Patients Trust You to Protect Their Personal Health InformationWednesday, June 12, 2013
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (MT)
Register Now! (locate Health IT Privacy and Security and click on register)
Join HealthInsight and your colleagues for a Health IT Privacy and Security webinar. Topics include: - Identify specific risks around the use of Health Information Technology - Analyze and prioritize risks - Create a plan to minimize risk - Develop policies & procedures and training - Explore resources Click here for more information.
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Learning and Action Network: Discovery Learning Series
Every 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of the month from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. (ET)
Please join us for a series of
interactive, dynamic adult learning events that will cover a series of quality improvement topics.
Whether you are planning your next staff meeting or participating in a Learning & Action Network, these sessions will be highly interactive, engaging, disciplined, fast-moving and content rich.
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Greetings!
Welcome to the Clinically Speaking eNewsletter. We hope you find this monthly newsletter a valuable resource as we keep you updated on healthcare specific issues, such as; diabetes care, health information technology, cardiac care, and upcoming events that are relevant to your work.
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What does the Nevada Health Link mean for Nevada's Primary Care Providers?  January of 2014 is fast approaching and on its heels are the new health insurance Marketplaces that were created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Nevada is among a group of 17 States and the District of Colombia that will operate State Based Marketplaces whereas the remaining 33 States will have a one size fits all Marketplace set up by the Federal government. Nevada Health Link (Nevada's Marketplace) will launch enrollment efforts in October of this year with the goal of enrolling 118,000 currently uninsured individuals in health insurance coverage by March of 2014.
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June 30th ePrescribing Deadline Approaching The Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program deadline is approaching for both individual eligible professionals (EP) and group practices participating in the Group Practice Reporting Option (GPRO). If you are an EP or a GPRO participant, you must successfully report as an electronic prescriber before June 30, 2013.
If you do not successfully report as an electronic prescriber, then you will receive a payment adjustment of 2.0% in 2014 for professional services covered under Medicare Part B's Physician Fee Schedule.
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Nevada Medicaid Pre-Payment Audits 
April 1,2013 marked the first opportunity for Eligible Providers (EPs) & Eligible Hospitals (EHs) to attest to Meaningful Use through the Nevada Medicaid EHR Incentive Program. EPs who successfully attested to the Adopt, Implement and Upgrade (AIU) provisions of the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program during calendar 2012 and EHs who successfully attested to AIU prior to September 30, 2012 could begin attesting to the Meaningful Use of their EHR and thus subsequently qualify for their Year 2 Payment through the Nevada Medicaid EHR Incentive Program.
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Medicare Meaningful Use Audits
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Use of Health IT More Than Doubles
Since 2012
 On May 22, 2013 HHS, CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced an important healthcare milestone - more than 50% of eligible professionals nationwide are using Electronic Health Records (EHR)s meaningfully in their offices and more than 80% of U.S. hospitals are using EHRs. Congratulations on your role in this important milestone. Better use of EHRs leads to more coordinated care, fewer medical errors, and lower costs to the system. It is an honor to act as your partner in achieving the different stages of meaningful use and using health IT as a springboard to the many initiatives that will be critical to the new healthcare landscape. We look forward to a lasting collaboration. Please call HealthInsight at 1-800-483-0932 if you have any questions. |
Reasons Why PAs, NPs and CNMs Should Do Meaningful Use 
The Meaningful Use Incentive Program is a great opportunity for a provider or clinic to help pay for transitioning from a paper system to an electronic health record (EHR) system. The opportunity to earn up to $44,000 for the Medicare incentive or $63,750 for the Medicaid incentive, per eligible provider, has convinced many providers and administrators to make the necessary changes in their processes, workflows, and policies. But, making the changes can be difficult, and when there is no obvious financial incentive for a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant it is often times easiest to focus only on the physicians.
Despite the difficulty, many clinics and hospitals have made it a point to include their Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in working toward meeting the meaningful use objectives. The reasoning listed below is an accumulation, and summary, of feedback we have received as we work with providers toward meeting meaningful use. Read more. . . |
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Racial/ Ethnic Disparities in the Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension - United States 2003 - 2010
 "Hypertension is a serious health issue that affects disproportionate numbers of minority people. In the May 10 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC presented data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for the period 2003-2010, and found significant racial/ethnic disparities in the awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension.
* The proportion of Mexican-Americans and blacks over age 65 with stage 1 and stage 2 hypertension was significantly greater than for whites. (Blacks 74%, Mexican-Americans 72%, whites 57%).
* Among those with stage 1 hypertension, treatment with medication was significantly lower for Mexican-Americans compared with their non-Hispanic counterparts.
* Among those with uncontrolled hypertension, blacks had higher rates of awareness and treatment compared with whites or Mexican-Americans. Mexican-Americans had the lowest rates of awareness and treatment, and were also lowest in terms of healthcare coverage." To read the full report, click here. |
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About Our Work
This information is provided by HealthInsight, a private, non-profit, community-based organization dedicated to improving health and health care. HealthInsight serves as the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center for Nevada, and manages HealtHIE Nevada, the state's first community-based health information exchange. HealthInsight leads an initiative to improve diabetes care, cardiac care, population-based care, and improve the use of health information technology. To learn more about us, visit our website at: www.healthinsight.org
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This material was prepared by HealthInsight, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Nevada and Utah, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 10SOW-NV-2013-PO-519 This material was prepared by HealthInsight as part of our work as the Regional Extension Center for Nevada and Utah, under Cooperative Agreement #90RC0033/01 from the Office of the National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services.
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