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In the 1980s, as Medicaid managed care expanded across the county, safety net providers, such as Community Health Centers (CHCs) and public hospitals, feared that managed care would reduce reimbursements for Medicaid-eligible services, making it more difficult for them to provide care to the un- and under-insured, and result in a loss of Medicaid volume, as beneficiaries would choose to see ...
AmeriHealth, known initially as Delaware Valley HMO, was established in 1995 to provide health coverage to Pennsylvania employers and their staff residing in Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem counties of New Jersey. It expanded its coverage area to include southern New Jersey and Delaware, and by 1997, AmeriHealth offered coverage to ...
HealthShare Exchange (HSX) is a membership-dues-supported nonprofit health information exchange formed in 2009 and incorporated in 2012 by Greater Philadelphia's hospitals, health systems, and healthcare insurers. [1] [2] It links the electronic medical record (EMR) systems of different hospital health systems and other healthcare providers ...
Charles Pizzi, Chairman. Gregory E. Deavens, President and CEO. Website. www.ibx.com. Independence Blue Cross (Independence) is a health insurer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. [1] Independence is the largest health insurer in the Philadelphia area, serving people in the region and seven million nationwide.
The NPI is a 10-position, intelligence-free numeric identifier (10-digit number). This means that the numbers do not carry other information about healthcare providers, such as the state in which they live or their medical specialty. The NPI must be used in lieu of legacy provider identifiers in the HIPAA standards transactions. As outlined in ...
Burke County, Caldwell County, McDowell County, Watauga County, and Yancey County. Elisha Mitchell (1793–1857), a professor at the University of North Carolina who measured the height of Mount Mitchell. 14,999. 222 sq mi.
October 12, 2024 at 7:32 AM. Six Republican congressmen from Pennsylvania are suing the commonwealth’s secretary of state for, they claim, not adequately vetting the identities of overseas and ...
The U.S. healthcare system has been the subject of significant political debate and reform efforts, particularly in the areas of healthcare costs, insurance coverage, and the quality of care. Legislation such as the Affordable Care Act of 2010 has sought to address some of these issues, though challenges remain.