Monday, October 12, 2009
Does your waiter Xerox your credit card?
At the annual MGMA press luncheon (yes, our entire day revolves around free food), MGMA president William F. Jessee gave us the usual update on the opinions and activities of the group. (See next week's ACP InternistWeekly for full details.)
They are still avidly pursuing their plan for a standardized machine-readable patient ID card, like a credit card for your health insurance. Several big payers--Humana, United Healthcare, regional BC/BS--have signed on, but Medicare is a major stumbling block. The stick-in-the-mud agency, which is also thwarting MGMA's desire for a national health plan identifier and electronic claims attachments, is sticking with paper cards with social security numbers. (How retro!) Jessee was optimistic about Project SwipeIT, though, and said that the plan for 2010 is to "crank the pressure up a little" on insurers that haven't signed on yet.
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