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Hospitals Want to Delay a Key Obamacare Program
In 2011, the Obama administration settled on 32 health care systems, scattered across the country, to lead the Affordable Care Act’s most ambitious cost-control effort. These hospitals and doctors would move Medicare away from paying doctors for volume—and toward paying for value.
The group was given a name that has stuck: the pioneers. When I asked the Advisory Board’s Chas Roades to describe the group, he called them “The Lewis and Clarks of hospitals.” “They’re really exploring new territory,” says Roades, who oversees research for the hospital consulting firm.
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Source: The Washington Post
The Biden administration recently launched the Global Health Security Strategy, a new effort to combat the spread of infectious diseases; lawmakers zeroed in on the risks of massive consolidation in health care during the first congressional hearing on the Change Healthcare hack; the FDA recently announced the recall of a pair of heart devices linked to numerous deaths and injuries.
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Navigating Health Policy in an Election Year: Insights From Dr Dennis Scanlon
April 2nd 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with Dennis Scanlon, PhD, the editor in chief of The American Journal of Accountable Care®, about prior authorization, price transparency, the impact of health policy on the upcoming election, and more.
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