In Georgia, seven insurers have announced plans to participate in the Health Insurance Exchange that will exist by virtue of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA authorized creation of State health insurance “exchanges” (HIX) – an online market place in which consumers can shop for and buy health insurance.…
While only slightly more than two-thirds of primary care physicians in the United States used electronic medical records (EMR) in 2012, this is an increase of 50% over the 46% that reported using them in 2009. This data is documented in a Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey, which was…
According to an economist with Moody’s Analytics, the new health care law is set to negatively impact hiring in 2013; this is based on what human resource firms are saying, anyways. They are predicting that some businesses are going to be taking on more part-time employees rather than hiring full-time…