Health Care Section

Health care reform will completely change the landscape that medical personnel, hospitals, nursing homes and practitioners have come to know. What are the effects on Ohio CPAs? What does your business need to know? These and many other issues affecting Ohio’s health care financial management profession are highlighted in OSCPA’s Health Care Section weekly newsletter. Section members get the latest information on federal reform, HIPAA compliance, regulations and more. Join today.

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  • Health care creates 1 in 5 new jobs

    Sep 14, 2011
    August’s job growth report may have been dim, but there was one bright spot: health care employment.
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  • Fourth Circuit finds it lacks jurisdiction to hear challenges to health reform law

    Sep 14, 2011
    In a long-awaited decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Sept. 8 declared that the Anti-Injunction Act stripped it of jurisdiction to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a key provision of the law overhauling the nation's health care system.
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  • Ohio Tea Party submits signatures, seeks ballot measure to quash health care law

    Sep 01, 2011
    A coalition of Tea Party and constitutional rights activists are one step closer to their goal of preserving Ohioan’s right to choose their own health care. Ohioans for Healthcare Freedom submitted more than 546,000 signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State’s office in an attempt to block a requirement in the national health care law that would require everyone to purchase health insurance.
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  • Study: States could save $14 billion due to federal spending under health care reform act

    Sep 01, 2011
    Due to an increase in federal spending under the health care reform law, state governments can expect a net savings in health care spending of $14 billion from 2014 to 2019, according to a new study from the Urban Institute.
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  • Ohio health care exchange on the horizon

    Sep 01, 2011
    Despite a fundamental difference of opinion with the federal government over health care, Gov. Kasich says that plans for a health care exchange in Ohio are underway.
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  • FDA planning regulation of medical apps

    Sep 01, 2011
    The Food and Drug Administration is taking the first steps toward regulating the rapidly expanding field of medical applications, or apps, for smart phones and other handheld devices. With the rise of the iPhone, Android and other mobile devices has come a flood of applications designed to help people stay healthy. Industry analysts estimate there are already more than 17,000 medical applications available, ranging from calorie counters to programs that let doctors view medical scans on their phones.
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  • CMS plans to cut Medicare payments by 11.1%

    Sep 01, 2011
    Nursing homes will see a double-digit drop in their Medicare payments next year. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 29 finalized an 11.1% cut in payments to nursing homes. CMS proposed the cut in April, saying Medicare made unexpected extra payments under a new classification system and that a cut is needed in order to recapture that money.
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  • Health care opt-out measure will be on fall ballot

    Sep 01, 2011
    Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced July 26 that opponents of a federal health insurance mandate have submitted enough valid petition signatures to place an opt out measure before voters in the Nov. 8 election.
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  • New health care reform guidance gives precedence to state law under statute

    Sep 01, 2011
    The IRS joined with the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services to release interim final regulations Aug. 1 giving precedence to state law under the sweeping health care reform legislation enacted last year.
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  • Health care sector drives U.S. job growth

    Sep 01, 2011
    More than 25% of the 117,000 new jobs created in the U.S. economy in July were in health care, according to preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statics (BLS).
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