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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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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January 14, 2013 - People who become eligible for Medicare in states without a comprehensive transition plan could face gaps in coverage and avoidable out-of-pocket costs. This post looks at how states can help ensure people make smooth transitions to Medicare.
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November 07, 2012 - The Affordable Care Act has been put to legal and political tests and is now indisputably the law of the land. It's time to come together to ensure the law is speedily implemented, and take the steps necessary to guarantee equitable access to high-quality care, while controlling costs.
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October 22, 2012 - A recent Commonwealth Fund report found that Governor Romney's health care proposals would leave 72 million people uninsured in 2022 while the Affordable Care Act will lower the number of uninsured to 27 million within a decade. The discussion about the potential impacts of these differing visions for the health care system continued at a recent briefing.
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October 02, 2012 - In invited testimony today before the House of Representatives Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis discussed two approaches to sustaining Medicare, the vital public insurance program for seniors and disabled Americans.
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July 24, 2012 - In a new blog post, Karen Davis and Kristof Stremikis suggest that "it may be desirable to open up Medicare to people buying insurance through the state exchanges, especially to older adults."
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May 24, 2012 - The Department of Health and Human Services recently released long-awaited proposed regulations for implementing the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid primary care rate increase. This post provides takeaways from the proposed rule and suggestions for implementation.
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May 09, 2012 - Last September, the AARP Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund, and The SCAN Foundation released the first-ever State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS). A new set of case studies provides insights into why certain states ranked high, low, or somewhere in between.
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April 12, 2012 - The Commonwealth Fund offers a number of resources to learn about how several of the Pioneer ACOs went about implementing patient-centered coordinated care for their patient population.
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March 23, 2012 - In a new blog post, Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis offers a few reminders of why the United States so urgently needs the Affordable Care Act.
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March 14, 2012 - The latest report in a series of Commonwealth Fund scorecards that highlight stark differences in health care across the country ranks 306 communities on 43 measures of health system performance.
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January 18, 2012 - Health care spending in 2009 and 2010 grew at the slowest rates in 50 years. This startling news was largely attributed to the shrinking economy. In a new blog post, Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis suggests that lower longer-term projections point to a shift in the health system.
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January 07, 2012 - The Commonwealth Fund's Mark Zezza, Stuart Guterman, and Jennie Smith review the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Initiative,a three-year project beginning in 2012, that will allow physicians, hospitals, and post–acute care providers to receive bundled payments as a way of supporting the delivery of efficient and high-value care.
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