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The Transformation Of Medical Education From Choosing More To Choosing Wisely
Professionalism And Choosing Wisely
ACA Round-Up: Iowa, Massachusetts Waivers Stymied; States In CSR Case Face Tough Questioning
1332 Reinsurance Waivers Revisited: Could Oregon’s Approval Beget An Oklahoma Do-Over?
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ACA Update: Effects On Ability To Pay Medical Bills And Labor Supply; Enrollment Snapshot; And More
Two recently released federal studies provide further insight into the effects, or potential effects, of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). CDC Reports Fewer Adults Having Trouble Paying Medical Bills First, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Wed, Dec 09 2015 1:26 PM
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Improving Health And Health Care: An Agenda For Reform
The debate over, and eventual enactment of, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) brought to the surface of American politics a long-standing divide over the proper orientation of health care policy. On one side are those who tend to promote more federal control...
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Wed, Dec 09 2015 5:09 AM
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Health Care Price Transparency: A Meeting Of The Minds In Kentucky
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky held its second health care price transparency symposium on October 16. This convening occurred a year after the foundation’s first symposium , in which state and national speakers discussed the need for price transparency...
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Tue, Dec 08 2015 11:00 AM
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Not Your Usual Suspects: Roles For State Agencies In PCMH Payment Reforms
The growth of multipayer patient centered medical home (PCMH) reform across the country, accelerated by the Affordable Care Act, offers the opportunity to widely transform the primary care delivery system. Recent Health Affairs research noted 17 multipayer...
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Tue, Dec 08 2015 9:00 AM
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Vermont
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Montana
Health Affairs December Issue: Affordability, Access, Models Of Care, And More
The December issue of Health Affairs , a variety issue, covers a range of topics: the impact of competition in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces, life expectancy determinants, managing complex care in the United States and elsewhere, and others...
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Mon, Dec 07 2015 1:07 PM
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Nothing (Still) Matters: ERISA Preemption Returns To The Supreme Court
It’s back. After more than a decade without a major health care dispute involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) reaching the United States Supreme Court, the justices heard oral arguments on December 2 in Gabeille v. Liberty...
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Mon, Dec 07 2015 11:00 AM
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The Impact Of New Hepatitis C Drugs On National Health Spending
Those who follow Altarum Institute’s monthly health sector briefs and trend reports are well aware that the five-year run of record low growth rates in national health spending (from 2009 through 2013) has come to an end, or at least been interrupted...
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Mon, Dec 07 2015 8:13 AM
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Senate Approves Reconciliation Bill Repealing Large Portions Of ACA
Implementing Health Reform. On December 3, 2015 the Senate voted 52 to 47 to repeal large parts of the Affordable Care Act. The House has voted over fifty times to repeal the ACA since the Republicans took control in 2011, but this is the first time the...
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Fri, Dec 04 2015 12:13 PM
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The $879 Billion Footnote — And The Financing Path To ACA Repeal
The November 3 election of Matt Bevin as governor of Kentucky will provide an important indication of the seriousness of Republican intentions to undermine and repeal the health insurance expansions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Early in Bevin’s campaign...
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Fri, Dec 04 2015 7:30 AM
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Loan Fund Helps Safety-Net Providers Grow And Innovate
During a period of increasing concern about widening economic inequality, the community development finance sector has grown to channel nearly $3 billion of capital to high-need communities in the United States. Health care in low-income communities is...
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Thu, Dec 03 2015 12:39 PM
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Taking Stock Of Choosing Wisely
Since its launch in 2012, the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely campaign has helped create conversations among clinicians and patients—both in the U.S. and abroad—about unnecessary care, particularly where significant risks of a test or treatment...
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Thu, Dec 03 2015 9:23 AM
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Interpreting New Data On Health Care Spending Growth
Health care spending growth is an important issue, especially since health care spending accounted for 17.5 percent of GDP in 2014. Health care spending growth slowed significantly during, and immediately following, the recession years. Between 2009 and...
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Wed, Dec 02 2015 1:19 PM
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Health Affairs Web First: National Health Spending Growth Accelerates In 2014
A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that in 2014, health care spending in the United States grew at a rate of 5.3 percent to $3.0 trillion, or $9,523 per person. The previous...
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Wed, Dec 02 2015 1:16 PM
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CMS Finds Exchange Plans Don’t Measure Up To CHIP And Other ACA Developments
Implementing Health Reform. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) required the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by April 1, 2015 to review the benefits and cost-sharing in qualified health plans (QHPs) and certify that those plans offer benefits...
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Tue, Dec 01 2015 2:11 PM
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How Might Proposed Payer Mergers Impact State Insurance Markets?
With recent news of the proposed Aetna/Humana , Anthem/Cigna , and Centene/Health Net mergers, a number of stakeholders have raised questions about consolidation’s impact on the competitiveness of health care markets. For these proposed deals, we estimated...
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Tue, Dec 01 2015 9:26 AM
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