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Unpacking The Burr-Hatch-Upton Plan
Graduate Medical Education: The Need For New Leadership In Governance And Financing
The Council On Graduate Medical Education (COGME)—Not Yet Ready For End-Of-Life Care
Teaching Health Centers: An Attainable, Near-Term Pathway To Expand Graduate Medical Education
Rethinking Graduate Medical Education Funding: An Interview With Gail Wilensky
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Unpacking The Burr-Hatch-Upton Plan
Anticipating the upcoming Supreme Court decision on King v. Burwell , which could halt health insurance subsidies available through the federal exchange, Republican Senators Richard Burr and Orrin Hatch joined with Representative Fred Upton to propose...
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Graduate Medical Education: The Need For New Leadership In Governance And Financing
With the creation of the Medicare program in 1965, a funding stream was established to support the training of medical residents who provided care for Medicare beneficiaries. In subsequent years, Medicare has maintained these payments to teaching hospitals...
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The Council On Graduate Medical Education (COGME)—Not Yet Ready For End-Of-Life Care
In November, 1985, twenty-nine years ago, members of the first session of the 99 th Congress addressed growing concern and controversy regarding Graduate Medical Education (GME). Although Medicare had financed GME for the previous twenty years, Congress...
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Teaching Health Centers: An Attainable, Near-Term Pathway To Expand Graduate Medical Education
Stakeholders in Graduate Medical Education (GME) and members of Congress eagerly anticipated the long delayed but recently released Institute of Medicine (IOM) GME report . While perceptively characterizing the defects in our GME system, recommendations...
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Rethinking Graduate Medical Education Funding: An Interview With Gail Wilensky
A recent Institute of Medicine report has stirred controversy by proposing to significantly reshape the way Medicare graduate medical education funding is distributed. However, before the panel that wrote the report grappled with how the federal government...
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Health Affairs Forum: Graduate Medical Education Governance And Financing
Please join us on Wednesday, September 10 , for a Health Affairs forum to discuss, Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation's Health Needs , a recent report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Governance and Financing of...
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IOM Graduate Medical Education Report: Better Aligning GME Funding With Health Workforce Needs
After nearly two years of deliberation, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education (GME) has issued its report. It presents a strong case for the need for change and a strong case for its recommendations...
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New Health Policy Brief: Transitioning To ICD-10
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looks at an important change expected in the American health system later this year: the transition to the ICD-10 coding system by all health providers for diagnoses...
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Primum Non Nocere: Congress’s Inadequate Medicare Physician Payment Fix
Editor's note: You can read other perspectives on the Medicare physician payment reform pending in Congress in Health Affairs and Health Affairs Blog ( here , here and here ). Partisan gridlock in Washington regarding health policy has been so pervasive...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 6:12 AM
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Review Of Accountable Care Organization Landscape Leads 2013 Health Affairs Blog Top Fifteen
David Muhlestein's comprehensive look at the growth of Accountable Care Organizations leads the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for 2013. Muhlestein, Director of Research at Leavitt Partners, followed up this post later in the year with...
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Health Care Preparedness Funding: Are We Inviting Disaster?
Editor’s note: This post expands on the theme of the December issue of Health Affairs , The Future of Emergency Medicine: Challenges And Opportunities . Disasters always make the big headlines. In large part, this is because they can take away lives in...
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A Policy Dialogue On Connected Health
Editor's note: In addition to Janet Marchibroda (photo and linked bio above), this post was coauthored by Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog Editor. What is telehealth or “connected health”? What is driving the use of connected health and what are...
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Medicare Physician Payment Reform: The Bipartisan Congressional Proposal And How To Strengthen It
Note: In addition to Mark McClellan (photo and linked bio above), this post is coauthored by John O’Shea, a Visiting Scholar at the Engelberg Center for Health Reform at the Brookings Institution, and Erica Socker, a Research Analyst there. The post is...
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Medicare Physician Payment Reform: An Analysis Of The New Congressional Proposal
On October 31, 2013 the House Ways & Means and Senate Finance Committees unveiled a bicameral and bipartisan press release and Discussion Draft of a proposal to repeal the SGR (sustainable growth rate) update to professional fees and replace it with...
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Technology And The Changing Business Of Health Care
Three years after the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” scholars and political pundits have paid much attention to the macroeconomic effects of the law. Will Obamacare bend the health care cost...
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