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BOSTON UNIVERSITY.pdf

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FORDHAM LAW REVIEW.pdf

info@hopestreetgroup.org — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:22:03 GMT

Reinventing Primary Care Participant List

info@hopestreetgroup.org — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:48:47 GMT

Medicare NPI registry shows confidential information

info@hopestreetgroup.org — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:44:09 GMT

The NPI registry, also called the National Provider Identification registry, is a digital database of all Medicare providers. In a system that handles hundreds of millions of pieces of confidential information, though, there are weaknesses. The newest NPI database discloses extra details that then opens the door for Medicare fraud. Post resource: Medicare NPI registry reveals confidential info by Personal Money Store

The registry of NPI

The Medicare system is a very complicated bureaucratic maze that depends on the NPI registry, National Supplier Clearinghouse numbers and Medicare Administrative Contractors. The NPI Registry database is called the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System. The NPPES was intended to simplify the payment of Medicare claims. In the end, though, the NPPES also gives out the National Supplier Clearinghouse number of a provider, which opens up both patient and provider details that should be confidential.

Registry info for NPI

The National Provider Identification registry works with various other cogs within the Medicare system. With just the NSC number and a patient's claim number, anybody can access details, a patient's diagnosis and procedures, and more. The new NPI registry opens up the bones of the Medicare payment system to possible exploitation.

NPI registry difficulties being fixed

Contacting the three major arms of the Medicare payment system to ask about the NPI registry problem resulted in being given the runaround, as reported by Home Care Magazine. The suggestion of deleting the NPI information from the database means that a provider might not get paid. In other words, this means that providers have to decide between being paid by Medicare for services they provide, or protecting the personal details of the doctors and patients. Though various solutions can be very easily coded by dedicated programmers and have been suggested, the NPI registry has not said they will be implementing any of them.

Discover more information here:

Home Care Magazine

homecaremag.com/news/nsc-numbers-revealed-npi-registry/

Concensus on Question 1. Is the Impact on Reward Systems Appropriate? Why or Why Not?

info@hopestreetgroup.org — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:58:22 GMT

The impact on reward systems is not appropriate. Rarely is there any impact on the reward system as most of the reward systems are tied to degrees earned and years in the system.

Reinventing Primary Care project advisors

info@hopestreetgroup.org — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:30:27 GMT

Hope Street Group assembled the dream team of primary care advisors for our Policy 2.0: Using Open Innovation to Reinvent Primary Care Project. Essentially, we will connect the best ideas created by the Policy 2.0 community with the following:

Primary Care Project Advisors

Dr. Richard Baron | President and CEO, Greenhouse Internists
Robert H. Brook | Vice President, RAND Corporation; Director, RAND Health
Prof. James F. Cawley | Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Prevention and Community Health and Director, Physician Assistant / Master of Public Health Program, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University
Representative Jim Cooper | Tennessee (D)
Dr. F. Dan Duffy | Senior Associate Dean for Academics, Professor of Medicine, Director of the Community Medicine Track, University of Oklahoma, School of Community Medicine
Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA | Executive Director, The John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital
Wyche T. Green, III | President and Chief Executive Officer, Greenway Medical
Paul Grundy, MPH | IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation; President, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
Dr. Jeff Harris | Former President, American College of Physicians
Dr. Doug Henley | Executive Vice President/CEO, American Academy of Family Physicians
Dr. Charles Kilo | Chief Medical Officer, Oregon Health and Science University
Dr. Bob Kocher | Special Assistant to the President, National Economic Council
Jeff Korsmo | Executive Director of Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center, Mayo Clinic
Peter Lee | Director of Delivery System Reform, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Health Reform
Dr. Harlan Levine | Principal, Towers Watson Dr. John Lumpkin | Senior Vice President and Director of the Health Care Group, Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
Dr. Terry McGeeney | President & CEO, TransforMED
Michael Mussallem | Chairman and CEO, Edwards Lifesciences / Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Advanced Medical Technology Association (Advamed)
Len Nichols, Ph.D | Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation Bill Novelli | Former CEO, AARP; Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University Prof. Joanne Pohl PhD | Professor, University of Michigan School of Nursing Dennis Rivera | Chairman of SEIU Healthcare Diane Rowland, ScD | Executive Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; Chair, MACPAC Dr. Lewis G. Sandy | Senior Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group Dr. Mark Smith | President and CEO, California HealthCare Foundation Simon Stevens | Executive Vice President, UnitedHealth Group Dr. John Tooker | Executive Vice President & CEO of the American College of Physicians
Hon. Tevi Troy | Visiting Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute and former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Reed V. Tuckson | Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group
David Walker | President and CEO, Peter Peterson Foundation

Dr. Steven Weinberger, FACP | Executive Vice President; Chief Executive Officer, American College of Physicians

Chronic Care Team

Dr. Sree Chaguturu | Attending Physician and Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital; Senior Associate, McKinsey & Company

Co-Leader: Dr. Si France | Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company

Preventative Care

Dr. Jeff Harris | Former President, American College of Physicians

Co-Leader: Dr. Nathan Cobb | Research Investigator, Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, American Legacy Foundation

Practitioner Shortage/Maldistribution

Dr. Kate Tulenko | Deputy Director, CapacityPlus (USAID)

Co-Leader: Dr. Matthew Hunsaker | Director, RMED, National Center for Rural Health Professions, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Rockford

Acute Care

Dr. Chris McCoy | Chief Medical Resident, Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Functional Leads

Project Integrator

Dr Catherine Sonquist Forest (Clinical Instructor, University of California San Francisco Lakeshore Family Medical Center)

Project Legal Counsel

Peter Urbanowicz | Managing Director, Healthcare Industry Group, Alvarez & Marsal

Project Health Economist

Joan E. DaVanzo, | Chief Executive Officer of Dobson DaVanzo

Hope Street Group Advisory Board

Drew Altman | President and CEO, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

John Podesta | CEO, Center for American Progress

Hope Street Group Board of Directors

Byron Auguste | Director, McKinsey & Company

David Javdan | Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal, LLC

Monique Nadeau | Executive Director, Hope Street Group

Andy Slavitt | CEO, Ingenix

There are many opportunities to be involved in this exciting eight-week initiative. Hope Street Group will be selecting participants based on their experience and expertise. If you think you would like to be involved, please contact me at Diana@hopestreetgroup.org for more information about becoming a participant.

The Primary Care Physician and Health Care Reform

info@hopestreetgroup.org — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:47:23 GMT

In The Primary Care Physician and Health Care Reform, Dr. Bob Brook and Dr. Roy T. Young explore central issues to the decline in primary care physicans nationally such as salary and scope of practice and offer possible solutions.

"Willexpanding the scope of practice and increasing salaries motivateenough medical students to forsake careers in higher payingspecialties? Or will the fascination of working at the cuttingedge of medical technology still capture the minds and heartsof most medical students? The answer is unknown; however, itis certain that if the salary gap cannot be closed and the roleof the primary care physician redefined in a powerful way, thereis little hope of producing a health care system that provideshigh-quality affordable care to the US population."

Read the full article here at The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Rights and Responsibilities in Health Care: Striking a Balance

info@hopestreetgroup.org — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:34:39 GMT

What if our approach to health insurance changed to mimic that of obtaining a driver license? Dr. Bob Brook explores this question and many others in Rights and Responsibilities in Health Care: Striking a Balance.

"Health reform is not only about health insurance companies,physicians, and pharmaceutical and device companies. It is notonly mandating health insurance for everyone. It is not onlyabout subsidies and penalties for not buying insurance. Healthreform is about people. And people must become full participantsand assume much greater responsibility for their actions ifhealth benefits are to be maintained at an affordable cost."

You can find the full here at the Journal of The American Medical Association.

telemedicine pressure ulcer.pdf

info@hopestreetgroup.org — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:12:08 GMT