Lessons from Medicare's Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based PaymentCongressional Budget OfficeJanuary 2012In the past two decades, CMS has conducted two broad
For more than 20 years, PNHPās Senior Health Policy Fellow Don McCanne, M.D. wrote a daily health policy update, taking an excerpt or quote from a health care news story or analysis and commenting on its significance to the single-payer movement.
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CBO: Medicare's demonstration projects fail to demonstrate cost savings
Recognizing the need to slow the increase in health care spending, much hope has been placed on disease management, care coordination, and value-based payments such
Folding Medicare into Vermont's single payer system
Act 48 Integration Report: Green Mountain CareSubmitted by Robin J. Lunge, Director of Health Care ReformDepartment of Vermont Health Access and the Department of Banking,
Folding Medicare into Vermont’s single payer system
Act 48 Integration Report: Green Mountain CareSubmitted by Robin J. Lunge, Director of Health Care ReformDepartment of Vermont Health Access and the Department of Banking,
Folding Medicare into Vermont's single payer system
As states attempt to set up single payer programs, one problem that comes up is how do you move federal funds from programs such as
Physicians investing in for-profit technology
After urologists got machine, cancer treatments soaredBy Jay HancockThe Baltimore Sun, January 17, 2012Four years ago, doctors at Chesapeake Urology Associates started ordering the most
Physicians investing in for-profit technology
Technology that improves patient outcomes and reduces costs is great. Technology that increases costs, produces undesirable side effects, and provides no evidence of extended life
What Dr. King might say about physicians in the 1 percent
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane" āMartin Luther King Jr.On Martin Luther King Jr Day
What Dr. King might say about physicians in the 1 percent
On Martin Luther King Jr Day it seems appropriate to contemplate what he might say about the dramatic increase in flow of wealth from middle-
Medicaid and uninsured patients receive less imaging in EDs
Imaging and Insurance: Do the Uninsured Get Less Imaging in Emergency Departments?By James W. Moser, PhD, Kimberly E. Applegate, MD, MSJournal of the American College
Medicaid and uninsured patients receive less imaging in EDs
Fully predictable. Uninsured and Medicaid emergency department patients receive fewer imaging tests, and when they do receive them, they are more likely to be lower
Insurers use fitness memberships to select the healthy
Fitness Memberships and Favorable Selection in Medicare Advantage PlansBy Alicia L. Cooper, M.P.H., and Amal N. Trivedi, M.D., M.P.H.The New England Journal of Medicine, January