Medicare Advantage remains strong
News Release, First posted on U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, September 19, 2012 Enrollment in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program is projected to increase by 11 percent in the next year and...
View ArticlePayments of Penalties for Being Uninsured Under the Affordable Care Act
Beginning in 2014, the Affordable Care Act (comprising Public Law 111-148 and the health care provisions of P.L. 111-152) requires most legal residents of the UnitedStates to either obtain health...
View ArticleiHT² Weekend Edition Recap: 50 Amazing Ways Hospitals Are Using Facebook &...
Comparative User Experiences of Health IT Products: How User Experiences Would Be Reported and Used Electronic health records (EHRs) and other forms of health information technology (IT) hold the...
View ArticleHHS continues to support state efforts to build Affordable Insurance Exchanges
News Release, First posted on U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, September 27, 2012 Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today awarded a new round of Affordable Insurance...
View ArticleAnalysis: Access To Health Care Beginning To Look Like Airline Travel
By Michael Millenson The old axis of access in U.S. health care – insured or uninsured – is being replaced by the kind of gradations and complexity in determining who-gets-what-when-for-what-price for...
View ArticleMedical Schools, Students See Gaps in Policy Education
First Posted on HealthLeaders Media, October 3, 2012 Should health policy be a bigger part of medical students’ education? While most medical students feel obligated to put the Patient Protection and...
View ArticleThe 2012 Elections and 2013––We Face a Daunting To-Do List
By Bob Laszewski The Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) is now settled law. It will be implemented. It will also have to be changed but not until after it is implemented and the required changes become...
View ArticleHHS seeks Obamacare funds — but is ready to scramble
By Mike Millman and Brett Norman, First posted on POLITICO, April 10, 2013 To pay for the $1.5 billion HHS expects to spend on the law this year, Murray said it will exhaust the approximately $235...
View ArticleWhy it is called the Affordable Care Act?
By Paul Levy, First Posted at Not Running a Hospital on 5/18/2013 Sometimes when something is right in front of you, you don’t see it. A friend who serves on a Boston hospital board writes: Great cover...
View ArticleHow to Make Health Care Accountable When We Don’t Know What Works
By Barak Richman, first posted on Harvard Business Review on November 25, 2014 Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are widely regarded as part of the solution to a fragmented health care system — one...
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