Medicaid Patient Data Now Available to Healthcare Providers On-line By Gil Lawson Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services Kentucky's Medicaid program is making patient information more readily available to providers with the help of Internet-based technology. Primary care providers will be able to access patient information on the Department for Medicaid Services Website under the first phase of the Kentucky Medicaid Internet Information Processing System. The physicians will be able to view a list of patients who have been assigned to them under the Kentucky Patient Access and Care (KenPAC) program, a primary care case management system. They will receive the patient's name, date of birth, address, office site where they seek care and whether or not they are a new patient. The providers can take the information and sort it by any of the previously listed headings. Currently, KenPAC providers receive monthly reports in the mail. The new web-based system will allow providers instant access to the information. "Physicians have asked us to make this information more readily available," said Medicaid Commissioner Mike Robinson. "This is the first phase of several technology initiatives that will make it easier for Medicaid providers to better manage and care for patients." The second phase calls for more specific claim information to be made available to primary care providers through the website, Robinson said. It is scheduled to be ready in the fall of this year. This new Internet-based system contains protected, personally identifiable health information. Because of this, the data contained on the system is subject to the privacy and security regulations contained in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Providers will have to use provider numbers and a password to gain access to the information. More than 300,000 patients are in the KenPAC program. Nearly 1,000 primary care providers participate. (Recipients in Passport, the Medicaid managed care program for Jefferson and 15 surrounding counties, are not part of the KenPAC program.) Providers with problems or questions can get assistance by checking the Department for Medicaid Services' website at: http://chs.ky.gov/dms/ -- end --	Home August 2003 Techlines Archive
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