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HEALTH e-News Archives

August 2001

Week of August 27, 2001

• Medical Mutual HMO Pulls Out of Cuyahoga County (Monday)

• Workforce Shortage Task Force Work Underway (Tuesday)

• CBO Estimates Medicare Part A Trust Fund Will Grow Through 2006 (Wednesday)

• Preventive Health Grants Plan in Final Stages (Thursday)

• Ohio Hospitals Could Lose $56 Million is DSH Funding (Friday)

Week of August 20, 2001

• HHS Awards $24.8 Million to Expand Community Health Services (Monday)

• Bipartisan Medicare Regulatory Relief Bill Introduced (Tuesday)

• Research Community Asks HHS to Loosen HIPAA Privacy Rule (Wednesday)

• Hospital CPI Slows to 0.2 Percent in July (Thursday) 

• Public Health Council Sends Newborn Hearing Screening, Nursing Home Staffing Rules to JCARR (Friday)

Week of August 13, 2001

• Workforce Workgroup Holds Inaugural Meeting

• OHA Home Page Gets a Makeover

• CMS Provides Clarification on When EMTALA Applies

• Foundation Receives Applications for Tobacco Settlement Funds 

• Tobacco Prevention Discusses Grant Eligibility Regarding Past Associations With Tobacco Companies

• HHS Announces Medicaid Patient Protection Initiative

• Thompson Proposal Gives States Flexibility to Expand Medicaid Coverage to Uninsured

• AHA to CMS: Court Decision to Have Adverse Effects on Peer Review

Week of August 6, 2001

• Hospitals Settle Lawsuit Over Billing Investigations

• Physicians File Suit, Allege Privacy Rules Unconstitutional

• Nursing School Reimbursement Bill Introduced in Statehouse 

• Federal Bill Calls For Expansion of Health Coverage for Uninsured

• Medical Board to Re-file Physician Delegation Rules

• Ohio Hospitals Work to Promote A Cleaner Environment