waivers

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Group Advocates For Single-Payer System Over HIX

Tammy Worth | Government Health IT | March 17, 2014

Even as the Affordable Care Act is in its nascent stages, some states are already looking toward 2017 when they can request waivers to opt out of the healthcare exchanges. And a small, but persistent, movement has popped up toward a single payer system as an alternative to participating in the exchanges.

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Proposed Rules Would Extend EHR Safe Harbor

Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | April 9, 2013

The CMS and HHS' inspector general's office have issued a pair of complementary proposed rules to extend 2006 waivers that relaxed federal Stark and anti-kickback laws to promote the use of electronic health-record systems. Read More »