May 4th 2024
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Hospital Use of Skilled Nursing Facilities Linked to Mortality, Spending
May 4th 2015Patients at hospitals with high rates of skilled nursing facility discharge usually have poorer outcomes and higher downstream spending, according to researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Vanderbilt University.
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State Enrollment Exchanges Struggling Financially
May 4th 2015Nearly half of the 17 insurance marketplaces set up by the states and the District under President Obama's health law are struggling financially. Many of the online exchanges are wrestling with surging costs and tepid enrollment numbers.
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US Individual Insurance Market Grows 46% in First Year Under ACA, Study Finds
May 1st 2015In 2014, low- and moderate-income consumers were able to use premium subsidies to buy health coverage on Marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act. The individual health insurance market had been relatively flat for 3 years' prior.
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Thomas P. Miller Explains What He Heard at the Oral Arguments of King v. Burwell
April 30th 2015Although the Supreme Court oral arguments of King v. Burwell mostly went the way people were expecting, there were a few surprises, said Thomas P. Miller, JD, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who was able to sit in the courtroom the day of the arguments.
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EHR Implementation Reduces Practice Productivity, Increases Reimbursement
April 30th 2015Although practices saw a decrease in patient visits during the 2 years after electronic health record implementation, they reported an increase in revenue during that same time period, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Ohio Legislators May Take Control of Medicaid Expansion from Governor
April 29th 2015House Republicans say that Medicaid takes up too much of the state's budget for them not to have more say in who receives it. They also included budget language calling for Medicaid officials to ask CMS to allow healthcare savings accounts for almost all beneficiaries.
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When Moving to Collaborative Care, a Challenge Is Figuring Out How to Pay for It
April 29th 2015Studies have shown that embedding behavioral health services into the primary care practice produces better health outcomes for patients with diabetes, while reducing indications of depression. The challenge is figuring out how to make the transition to new payment models that reward such care.
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Patient Portals Could Exacerbate Disparities Among Older Patients
April 28th 2015A study of the use of patient portals among older Americans found clear disparities in the registration and use of this technology. The results were published in the Journal of the Americans Medical Informatics Association.
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Survey Finds ACA Misconceptions Remain Among Republicans
April 28th 2015In a new survey, more than half of self-identified Republicans said they didn't think the Affordable Care Act is increasing the number of people with health insurance, with a fifth of respondents saying it has actually reduced the number of people with coverage.
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Tennessee Governor Calls Fed Review of Medicaid Funding "Heavy-Handed"
April 26th 2015The federal government's review of how much money it spends to help pay for the hospital costs of low-income people in Tennessee and other states that didn't expand Medicaid feels like a threat to Governor Bill Haslam.
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Patients With Multiple Long-Term Health Conditions Report Poorer Healthcare Experiences
April 25th 2015Patients with multiple long-term health conditions are more likely to report poorer experiences in primary care than those with fewer health problems, according to recent findings by researchers from the University of Cambridge and RAND Europe.
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The Expanding Role of Managed Care in the Medicaid Program
April 25th 2015States increasingly use managed care for Medicaid enrollees, yet evidence of its impact on healthcare outcomes is mixed. This research studies county-level Medicaid managed care penetration and healthcare outcomes among nonelderly disabled and nondisabled enrollees.
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Women Are Drinking More, Driving Up Rates of Alcohol Use, Study Finds
April 24th 2015Researchers from the University of Washington examined drinking patterns down to the county level, and found wide disparities within state borders. This suggests that solutions to problem drinking must be found locally.
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Palliative Care and ACOs: A Perfect Fit
April 22nd 2015Accountable care organizations were created under the Affordable Care Act to improve healthcare delivery to a defined population. As writers in the new issue of Evidence-Based Oncology discuss, while palliative care exists to raise the quality of life for the seriously ill, it can also speak to the value equation of delivering care that patients want at a lower cost.
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Kaiser Poll Finds Strong Support to Control Drug Prices
April 21st 2015The Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found Americans strongly support ensuring that those with chronic conditions like cancer, HIV, and mental illness can have access to affordable drugs, and this sentiment was shared across partisan lines.
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Measuring Population Health, Meeting Individual Needs in Diabetes Care
April 19th 2015In its third year, Patient-Centered Diabetes Care, which took place April 16-17, 2015, in Boston, showed how new payment models, new therapies, and new approaches to patient engagement are changing care for persons with diabetes. The American Journal of Managed Care and Joslin Diabetes Center presented this year's meeting.
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Could Missouri Be Next to Expand Medicaid Managed Care?
April 16th 2015Missouri already spends $1.2 billion on Medicaid managed care in less than half its counties. The new plan would extend managed care to all Medicaid clients except the blind, disabled, and elderly. Meanwhile, in North Carolina, the CEO of the Medical Society argued against moving Medicaid to managed care, citing problems in other states.
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