The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is coordinating most delivery system reform activity pursuant to PPACA. Don Berwick’s NEJM recent piece on the final ACO rule can be found here R. M.J. Bohmer, “The Four Habit of High Value Health Care Organizations,” can be found here David Miller and colleagues’ estimate of the [...]
The New “REDUCED” Price of Healthcare? By Caryn Sever While attending a gathering this past weekend a friend of mine…we will call her Suzy, mentioned that she had spent a portion of that day walking with a pedometer. I asked her if this was in an effort to maintain health, she replied yes (of course) [...]
Americans Benefit when the Affordable Health Care Act Prohibits Lifetime Limitations By Caryn Sever My close friend, let’s call him John Doe, has diabetes. When he was 5 years old he caught a virus called coxsackie which killed his pancreas rendering him unable to manufacture insulin. Throughout the years he maintained a mild control of [...]
Urban Institute Study “State Progress Toward Health Reform Implementation: Slower Moving State Have Much to Gain” In a study published in January 2012, the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzed state progress in health reform implementation. Using the Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model (HIPSM) developed by the Urban Institute, authors Fredric [...]
Highlighting the John Goodman Article: “How Doctors are Trapped” Response By Colleen Tallant John Goodman explores the current payment methods for Medicare patients in his article, “How Doctors are Trapped” from The Health Care Blog. He argues that unlike virtually every other profession, physicians belong to a specialty which pays by task alone rather than [...]
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