About HPTS
NetScan’s Health Policy Tracking Service offers clients a
complete health information package.
HPTS staff identifies, analyzes, and reports on state and federal
policies affecting the quality, delivery and financing of health services in
the public/government and private sectors, including health care facilities,
insurers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and corporations seeking to control
costs, while providing access to care.
The Health Policy Tracking Service conducts custom research and analysis and completed extensive policy studies for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AARP, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Kaiser Family Foundation, California Health Care Foundation and American Health Care Association and other organizations.
HPTS:
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Is comprehensive, authoritative and timely.
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Tells clients what they need to know and why.
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Offers a variety of products that allow clients
to focus on their needs.
· Is available on Westlaw and www.netscan.com.
Policy Issues
HPTS covers 8 primary health care subjects, which includes:
Medicaid--Eligibility, Benefits and Services, Reimbursement Rates, Restructuring, Managed Care, and Waivers.
Pharmaceuticals--Implementation of the Medicare Modernization Act, State Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs, Cost Controls, e.g., Preferred Drug Lists (PDL), Prior Authorization (PA), Bulk Purchasing of Prescriptions, Regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers.
Access to Health Insurance--Small Employers, Employer Responsibility, Tax Credits, Health Savings Accounts, Employer Purchasing Alliances, Basic-Benefit Insurance Products
Oversight of Health Insurance--Regulation of Managed care, Consumer Rights, Mandated Health Insurance Benefits
Health Care Providers
and Facilities--Quality of Care, i.e. Pay for Performance, Effectiveness of
Treatment, Medical Errors; Health Information Technology, e.g. Electronic
Records, E-Prescribing; Malpractice, Workforce
Shortages, Hospitals, i.e., Emergency Rooms, Charity Care, Certificate of Need
(CON)
Long-term Care--Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, Family Care Giving, Home- and Community-Based Care
Mental Illness and Addiction--Child and Adolescent Services--Teen Suicide, ADHD and anti-depressants, Drug and Mental Health Courts, Access to "new-age" Prescriptions
Public Health--Nutrition,
Obesity, Food Industry Liability and Marketing, Physical Activity, Youth Access
to Tobacco,
Products
Online
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Snapshots--biweekly
analysis of state and federal trends and recent actions in 8 primary health
subjects and how they affect public/government and corporate sectors.
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State
Budget Actions Affecting Health Care Services--biweekly product that
synopsizes the fiscal situations of states--budget, deficits, revenue, taxes, and
expenditures--and how these are affecting availability
and financing of health services.
· Issue Briefs--Over 30 quarterly reports on policy and market forces affecting current federal and state actions. Updated in April, July, October and December. These reports provide the reader: background, current facts and controversy (if any), who supports and opposes the issue, and the actions being taken by the state and federal governments.
· Legislation to Watch--Analysts identify and monitor over 15,000 health-related bills. HPTS has follows more than 200 topics across 8 primary healthcare subjects to provide clients the most in-depth coverage across all 50 states.
· State Rx Policies--unique 50-state databases that provide comprehensive information on state Medicaid prescription benefit and cost control policies and state pharmaceutical assistance programs (SPAP) to the elderly and disabled.
Print
· State Medicaid Actions – a succinct recap and unique compendium of significant state legislative and policy actions in 2005 affecting eligibility, reimbursement, services, waivers, managed care, provider taxes and restructuring
Contact Us
For more information about any of HPTS products and services call us at (800) 982-2177.