June 19, 2013 - Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the roles of states and the federal government in establishing health insurance exchanges—marketplaces where people can shop for comprehensive and affordable health plans—have evolved considerably.
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June 04, 2013 - Locked away in millions of tons of paper on the shelves of doctor's offices and in the basements of hospitals is a vital untapped resource for improving the health and welfare of Americans. And there is only one way to mobilize that resource: to digitize it.
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May 23, 2013 - David Blumenthal and Sara Collins examine both the Affordable Care Act's potential to cover million of people, as well as remaining coverage gaps.
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May 16, 2013 - Since January 2013, Medicaid agencies and health plans have been required to pay for primary care for Medicaid beneficiaries at the generally higher rates paid to providers by Medicare. The Center for Health Care Strategies' David Bricklin-Small and Tricia McGinnis say that to ensure continued access to primary care, the increase should be maintained beyond its two-year timeframe.
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May 10, 2013 - The Fund's Jordan Kiszla and Rachel Nuzum discuss a recent policy briefing on the potential of patient-centered medical homes to transform primary care.
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May 06, 2013 - Learn about a new comprehensive, cost-saving proposal called "Medicare Essential" that would protect beneficiaries and emphasize high-value care.
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April 30, 2013 - In a new post, David Blumenthal, M.D., and Robin Osborn point out that both drawing from and contributing to the body of international health policy research will be an important responsibility for U.S. health services researchers and policymakers as we undergo dramatic health system change.
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April 26, 2013 - A look at key measures of insurance coverage and affordability of care in California, Florida, New York, and Texas.
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April 05, 2013 - This blog post describes the new guidance on how the Affordable Care Act's private insurance market reforms—including guaranteed access to health care coverage and the ban on preexisting condition exclusions—will be enforced.
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March 27, 2013 - Many state Medicaid agencies are using the Medicare Shared Savings Program established under the Affordable Care Act a model for their shared saving arrangements.
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March 26, 2013 - Today a new National Scorecard on Payment Reform, released by Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) with support from The Commonwealth Fund and the California HealthCare Foundation, offers the first-of-its-kind measurement of our nation’s progress on payment reform.
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March 21, 2013 - If we had spent only as much per person on health care as Switzerland did over the past 30 years, we would have saved about $15.5 trillion. David Squires asks what that money would buy if we had it today.
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February 26, 2013 - Medicare recently began financially penalizing hospitals that have higher-than-expected rates of 30-day readmissions for select conditions. To understand the impact, researchers talked with teams participating in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's initiative.
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February 25, 2013 - Stuart Guterman, executive director of its Commission on a High Performance Health System, explains why now is the perfect time to reform Medicare physicians payment.
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February 21, 2013 - All states have committed to what kind of health insurance marketplace, also referred to as an exchange, they want in their states starting in January 2014.
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