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Realizing Health Reform's Potential—When Unemployed Means Uninsured: The Toll of Job Loss on Health Coverage, and How the Affordable Care Act Will Help
Explore The Commonwealth Fund (Sep 6 2011)
In this period of chronically high unemployment, millions of Americans are losing their health insurance coverage along with their jobs. A Commonwealth Fund brief finds that unemployed workers have few affordable coverage options. While the Affordable Care Act will provide new options, extending subsidies for COBRA would further protect unemployed workers, the authors say. (Read Full Article)
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A New Roadmap for Healthcare Business Success
COVER STORY Jeni Williams a new road map for healthcare business success Four industry leaders share the ways in which business development is changing in an era of reform—and how CFOs and other healthcare leaders should prepare. As health systems take their first steps toward preparing for payment and delivery reform, one thing is certain: Carefully analyzing the ways in which reform could affect an organization—and developing a comprehensive business development plan in response—will be crit (Read Full Article)
Mentions: HFMA Regina E. Herzlinger
How Medicine Became a Growth Business
Explore Health Beat (May 16 2011)
Below, a guest post by Dr. Clifton Meador. Over the years, Meador has practiced as a family doctor, an epidemiologist, a health care administrator and Dean of the University of Alabama Medical School. He also has published many books and... (Read Full Article)
Collecting Medical Receivables and Patient Satisfaction - insideARM
Explore insideARM (Mar 9 2011)
On the heels of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law last March, comes a wave of focus, if not obs
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Mentions: Cynthia Wilson Hcahps Healthcare Research
Payers, providers agree - and disagree - on ACOs | Healthcare Payer News
Explore Healthcare Payer News (Mar 9 2011)
Home » Payers, providers agree - and disagree - on ACOs Payers, providers agree - and disagree - on ACOs Posted 03/08/2011 Printer-friendly version Send to friend By: Mike Miliard Senior payer and provider executives say the Medicare Shared Savings Program and competition from other organizations, rather than pressure from employers, are driving the formation of commercial ACOs. The findings are part of a report commissioned by MedeAnalytics, a healthcare performance management technology (Read Full Article)
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Why Consumer-Driven Health Care Will Fail
Explore The Health Care Blog (Mar 7 2011)
By DAVIS LIU, MD
The creation of consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), health insurance policies with high deductibles linked to a savings option and with more financial responsibility shouldered by patients and employees and less by employers, was completely inevitable. The American public likes to have everything, whether [...]
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Fixing America's Health Care Reimbursement System
Explore healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com (Mar 6 2011)
This post is authored by Brian Klepper and first appeared at Kaiser Health News:A tempest is brewing in physician circles over how doctors are paid. But calming it will require more than just the action of physicians. It will demand the attention and influence of businesses and patient advocates who, outside the health industrial complex, bear the brunt of the nation's skyrocketing health care (Read Full Article)
Health Reform Is Not Dead
Explore huffingtonpost.com (Mar 3 2011)
Health Reform Is Not DeadHuffington Post (blog)I cannot imagine a family that does not have at least one person who has been uninsured, had a medical bill that they can't pay, a treatment they needed but could not get, or had some problem getting coverage and care. Until we begin to see the real ...and more » (Read Full Article)
Florida judge who ruled ObamaCare unconstitutional says states should move forward with federal health care law
Explore Tampa newspapers (Mar 3 2011)
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who in January ruled the federal health care law unconsitutional, ruled today that states should move forward with enacting the law while the case works its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Vinson, though, said his decision is conditioned on the federal government filing an appeal within seven days. Vinson issued the opinion after the federal government asked him ... (Read Full Article)
Obama Health-Care Law Survives Constitutional Challenge in Washington Case
Explore Bloomberg (Feb 23 2011)
The Obama administration’s health- care reform law survived a constitutional challenge in federal court in Washington, marking the third U.S. victory against cases seeking to block the measure. (Read Full Article)
Obama Administration Repeals Portions of Bush "Provider Conscience Rules"
Explore RHRealityCheck.org (Feb 18 2011)
The Department is concerned that the breadth of the 2008 Final Rule may undermine the ability of patients to access these services ... EMTALA, and Medicaid obligations, as well as the federal health care provider conscience protection statutes."
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Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients : The New Yorker
Explore The New Yorker (Feb 8 2011)
Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925
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Mentions: Atul Gawande
More get waivers of health insurance - The Boston Globe
Explore Boston.com (Feb 8 2011)
Massachusetts regulators granted more exemptions last year to residents who said they could not afford the health insurance required by the state, waiving the tax penalty for more than half of those who appealed, according to state data. (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Jonathan Gruber
Health-Law Program Faces Changes Due to Cost Issues - WSJ.com
Explore Business News & Financial News (Feb 8 2011)
The Obama administration is looking at modifying a workers' long-term-care insurance program included in last year's health-care overhaul, responding to criticism that the program is fiscally unsustainable.
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Mentions: Kathleen Sebelius Health and Human Services
House, Senate OK ethics legislation
Explore Arkansas News (Feb 7 2011)
House, Senate OK ethics legislationArkansas NewsLarry Teague, D-Nashville, which would remove a 1 percent cap on a fee that hospitals are allowed to assess on their net patient revenue. ...and more » (Read Full Article)
Health-Care Law Fight Heads to U.S. Appellate Courts
Explore BusinessWeek (Feb 1 2011)
The fate of U.S. President Barack Obama’s health-care law now moves to federal appeals courts in three cities as lower-court judges split evenly over whether the 2010 statute is valid under the U.S. Constitution. (Read Full Article)
Health Care Law Moves to Appeals Courts as States Disagree on Ruling Scope
Explore Bloomberg (Feb 1 2011)
Health Care Law Moves to Appeals Courts as States Disagree on Ruling ScopeBloombergIt includes projects to test ideas such as incentives for better results and bundled payments to medical teams for patient care. In addition to appealing ...and more » (Read Full Article)
White House to appeal Florida ruling against health care
Explore Daily Business Review (Feb 1 2011)
It includes pilot projects to test ideas like incentives for better results and bundled payments to medical teams for patient care. ‘Absolutely Right’ Stephen Presser, a professor of legal history at Northwestern University in Chicago, called Vinson ... (Read Full Article)
White House to Pursue Health-Care Appeal After Florida Ruling
Explore Bloomberg (Feb 1 2011)
White House to Pursue Health-Care Appeal After Florida RulingBloombergIt includes pilot projects to test ideas like incentives for better results and bundled payments to medical teams for patient care. ...and more » (Read Full Article)
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