Friday, June 6, 2008

Iowa Creates "Medical Homes" 

By Merrill Matthews, Jr.

Filed As:  Health Care

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver (D) has signed HF 2539, the health reform package finally agreed upon by the legislature. Like many other states, Iowa created a commission to study health reform and agreed upon a fairly ambitious agenda, but in the end, more modest reforms passed, including:

• Expanded children's health insurance coverage;
• Creation of medical homes for primary care;
• Encouragement for small employers to use Section 125 plans;
• Expanded dependent coverage to age 25 for unmarried children;
• Waiver of pre-existing condition exclusions on individual coverage if covered by a prior policy; and,
• Study of electronic medical records.

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