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How To Simplify Medical Billing And Reduce Costs
As every American knows, the process of billing third-party entities for health care services is complex and time-consuming, for the patient as well as for the provider. According to the authors of an article published yesterday in Health Affairs, physicians...
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Fri, Apr 30 2010 6:16 AM
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The Health Wonk Review
Healthcare Economist hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Jason Shafrin ably presents the latest in quality health policy blogging, using a theme that we here in the Washington D.C. area have become sadly unfamiliar with: the NBA playoffs...
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Health Affairs Blog Roundtable Transcript: CMS And Health Reform
Editor’s Note: Much of the burden of implementing the newly passed health reform legislation will fall on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency must handle this task while continuing to perform its already daunting duties involving...
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Thu, Apr 29 2010 3:02 PM
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Sebelius To Keynote Health Affairs Briefing
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will keynote the Health Affairs May 4 briefing “Reinventing Primary Care.” The briefing will take place from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. It will highlight...
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Thu, Apr 29 2010 2:17 PM
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Credit Scores: Juicing Up The Mandate
Americans carry large amounts of consumer debt. They are directly affected by credit scores, because the scores affect the interest rates they pay, and the amount of credit they are offered. One late payment of a bill: a 60- to 110-point score reduction...
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Wed, Apr 28 2010 5:41 AM
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Health Affairs Briefing: Reinventing Primary Care
The May 2010 issue of Health Affairs examines what it will take to reinvent primary care in the United States. Operational, payment, regulatory, legal, and educational reforms will be necessary to improve care and achieve savings —and to prepare for the...
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Tue, Apr 27 2010 1:54 PM
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Don Berwick On Patient-Centeredness And More
In an essay in Health Affairs last year, Don Berwick, President Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, surveys the debate in the health policy community over how the principle of “patient-centeredness” should...
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Fri, Apr 23 2010 11:48 AM
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Don Berwick’s Vision: The Triple Aim
Yesterday, President Obama made it official: He nominated Don Berwick, president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has been without an administrator since October 2006. Berwick,...
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Tue, Apr 20 2010 1:55 PM
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Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up
Today is of course tax day, but over at the HealthBlawg, David Harlow marks the day in happier fashion, offering the best in health policy blogging in the latest Health Wonk Review. In an entertaining edition titled “Block That Metaphor,”...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 2:11 PM
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Imaging Technology Adoption: The Impact Of Self-Referral
Editor’s Note: In October 2009, Health Affairs published two papers on factors driving imaging utilization. One paper, by Jacqueline Baras and Laurence Baker, analyzes the relationship between MRI supply and care for fee-for-service Medicare patients...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 12:22 PM
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CMS And Health Reform: A Health Affairs Blog Roundtable
Much of the burden of implementing the newly passed health reform legislation will fall on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency must handle this task while continuing to perform its already daunting duties involving Medicare, Medicaid...
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Tue, Apr 13 2010 12:30 PM
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An International Trend Toward Self-Directed Care
Critics of consumer-directed health care often argue that patients are not knowledgeable enough and the market is not transparent enough for consumerism to work in health care. But a study by The Commonwealth Fund says there is an international trend...
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Fri, Apr 09 2010 7:46 AM
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Most-Read Health Affairs Blog Posts For March
Tim Jost’s analysis of the health reform reconciliation measure led the Health Affairs Blog’s most-read list for March. Jost’s post was followed by Uwe Reinhardt’s discussion of the reform summit at Blair House. Also on the list...
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Thu, Apr 08 2010 12:37 PM
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Medicare Part D drug pricing
Reducing Medicare Part D drug prices requires careful tools, not simply the power to negotiate Read More...
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Thu, Apr 08 2010 11:55 AM
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Health Affairs Explores Health IT As HHS Awards Grants
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced yesterday that more than $267 million has been awarded to 28 non-profit organizations to establish Health Information Technology (IT) Regional Extension Centers, desigined...
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Wed, Apr 07 2010 3:25 PM
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