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Health Affairs Web First: Choosing Wisely Campaign
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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New Guidance On SHOP Online Enrollment Requirements
Implementing Health Reform. Although the Affordable Care Act’s individual health insurance marketplaces have received far more attention, the ACA also created Small Business Health Options (SHOP) marketplaces, where small businesses and their employees...
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Tue, Apr 19 2016 11:34 AM
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To Identify Patients For Care Management Interventions, Look Beyond Big Data
Five percent of patients incur nearly 50 percent of United States’ health care costs, and there is growing evidence that investing resources in these individuals can improve care while decreasing costs . In kind, provider organizations are increasingly...
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Tue, Apr 19 2016 8:00 AM
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Health Affairs Forum: Envisioning The Future Of Value Based Payment
The American health care system is moving toward an era of personalized medicine where the appropriate course of treatment can be defined with greater precision for the individual patient. In this era of “big data,” traditional statistics...
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Mon, Apr 18 2016 1:30 PM
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Addressing Health In America To Build Wealth
Today, two of the primary focal points for many policy leaders include boosting individual income growth and, independently, reducing health care spending growth . None that we’re aware of, however, have identified and are considering policies that address...
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Mon, Apr 18 2016 8:45 AM
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Today’s Most Attractive National ACO Model Is Offered By…CMS
A large national payer recently announced the opportunity for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to share in 100 percent of the savings they create for the payer’s largest book of business. Providers will have complete autonomy in how they manage the...
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Fri, Apr 15 2016 1:00 AM
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Creating A Culture Of Whole Health: A Realistic Framework For Advancing Behavioral Health And Primary Care Together
People present in wholes, not pieces. Despite this irrefutable scientific fact, our health care delivery system has reinforced a false notion that mental health is separate from physical health . We further this fragmentation, whether or not we realize...
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Thu, Apr 14 2016 11:26 AM
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Building Health Care Systems In Post-Earthquake, Post-Constitution Nepal
Nepal finds itself at a critical juncture in its history. On September 20, 2015 a new Constitution was brought into full force, crystallizing the coming of age of the world’s youngest democratic republic. Today, challenges abound in Nepal —...
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Thu, Apr 14 2016 10:00 AM
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Nepal
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Nepal Health System Strategy
Health Affairs Web First: Significant Shifts Detected In Public Opinion About The ACA
Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law in 2010, Americans have remained deeply divided in their overall assessments of the law and whether it should continue. A new study , being released as a Web First by Health Affairs , compared public opinion...
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Wed, Apr 13 2016 1:19 PM
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Zubik v. Burwell Briefs Explore Potential Compromise
Implementing Health Reform. On March 24, 2016, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Zubik v. Burwell , the case through which religious organizations are challenging the requirement that they provide contraceptives as a woman’s preventive service...
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Wed, Apr 13 2016 10:48 AM
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Zubik v. Burwell
Medicare Help At Home
Nine million community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries—about one-fifth of all beneficiaries—have serious physical or cognitive limitations and require long-term services and supports (LTSS) that are not covered by Medicare . Nearly all have...
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Wed, Apr 13 2016 7:30 AM
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HHS Analyzes 2016 Marketplace Premiums As 2017 Proposals Come In
Insurers began filing their 2017 qualified health plan (QHP) proposals with the federally facilitated marketplace on April 11, 2016 and will continue to do so through May 11. QHP insurers must submit initial rate tables for 2017 to the Centers for Medicare...
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Tue, Apr 12 2016 12:12 PM
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What’s Behind The Surging Interest In Raising The Age To Buy Tobacco? (Podcast)
In trying to curb tobacco use, a growing number of state and local policymakers want to raise the minimum age to legally purchase cigarettes. On January 1, 2016, Hawaii became the first state to raise the age to 21. And in March, California lawmakers...
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Tue, Apr 12 2016 12:00 PM
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cigarettes
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Oral Health, Veterans’ Health: Tidbits From The Grantmakers In Health Conference
I recently traveled to San Diego to attend the Grantmakers In Health (GIH) annual conference. The funding partners (who are like members) of this group are now mostly local or statewide foundations, Faith Mitchell, president and CEO of GIH , told attendees...
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Tue, Apr 12 2016 11:15 AM
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Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW
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Native Americans
In Rural States Policy Changes To Improve Access To Home Dialysis Are Vital
By its very nature, chronic kidney disease can rob individuals of their independence. It gradually causes a person to lose the ability to filter wastes from the body, and should kidneys fail entirely, a patient must rely on renal replacement therapy Read...
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Tue, Apr 12 2016 9:40 AM
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kidney disease
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dialysis
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rural health
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nephrology
Milestones On The Path To Population Health
Use of the term “ population health ” has surged in recent years. Much of this enthusiasm has been driven by the idea that health reform would restructure incentives and unite the priorities of health care and public health. In practice, however, population...
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Mon, Apr 11 2016 9:30 AM
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culture of health
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New York City
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New York City Health + Hospitals
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