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April 15, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
As expected, the Senate Tuesday night easily passed legislation to scrap the formula, accepting a bipartisan plan muscled through the House last month by Speaker John Boehner and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. The Senate vote came just...
April 15, 2015 | The DO
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, an action the AOA and the osteopathic profession have been advocating for throughout more than a decade.
The repeal is part of the Medicare...
April 15, 2015 | AAFP News
Family physicians triumphed Tuesday night as the Senate removed a longstanding obstacle to improved patient care by repealing the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR), the controversial formula that had threatened to cut physician...
April 15, 2015 | Los Angeles Times
The historic compromise legislation passed by the Senate this week will overhaul the way Medicare pays physicians and will create new systems to reward high-performing doctors.
The bill, which drew unusual bipartisan support in both...
April 14, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
The New Deal
So what has been conjured, then, as the solution to the failures of the doc fix era? Before we bury the SGR under spilled champagne, we should consider what Congress is actually replacing it with. Having spent several years...
April 14, 2015 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
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WASHINGTON - The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) praises Congress for passing the Medicare Access and CHIP...
April 14, 2015 | Washington Post
America's doctors can rest easy: Not only has Congress ensured they will be paid in full for the services they render to Medicare patients, it has ended the yearly ritual putting that in doubt.
The Senate voted 92-8 to approve a long-term...
April 13, 2015 | New York Times
Who coordinates the coordinators?
More specifically, who coordinates the proliferating number of health care helpers variously known as case managers, care managers, care coordinators, patient navigators or facilitators, health coaches or...
April 13, 2015 | The Hill
The Senate is poised to vote Tuesday on a handful of amendments to a roughly $200 billion Medicare deal, according to three people familiar with the negotiations.
Senate leaders are expected to enforce limited debate on the amendments,...
April 13, 2015 | The Morning Consult
With a vocal opposition that has grown over the two-week recess, Senate leadership is looking for a path forward on legislation that would strike down Medicare’s unpopular Sustainable Growth Rate formula.
The legislation passed the House...
April 13, 2015 | The Atlantic
On April 24, 2003, shortly after the completion of the human genome project, its director Francis Collins and his team posed 15 grand challenges to the scientific community. They dared researchers to harness the genome to crack puzzles of...
April 9, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
Two weeks have passed since the Senate left town without taking action on legislation to permanently repeal Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula for paying doctors. That left the deal in limbo and disappointed healthcare advocates...
April 8, 2015 | Hellenic News of America
Pennsylvania’s Dept. of Human Services has announced that the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians’ (PAFP) past-president and current Board Chair Douglas Spotts, MD and Crozer-Keystone Health System’s Family Medicine Residency...
April 4, 2015 | AAFP News
State Medicaid programs continue to serve as a vanguard for the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) movement.
By the end of 2012, 26 state Medicaid programs had launched PCMH initiatives on a state, regional or local level, thereby...
April 2, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model challenges primary care providers to raise the bar on care coordination, population health management, clinical analytics, and access to care, but healthcare organizations that undertake these...
April 2, 2015
House members spent a lot of time last week congratulating themselves for passing a permanent "doc fix" -- that is, an end to the yearly ritual of readjusting the rates Medicare pays to health care providers in order to avoid drastic cuts...
April 1, 2015 | Washington Post
Congress will get a little extra time to prevent a threatened 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors.
Technically, the cut was to take effect Wednesday.
But the Department of Health and Human Services said it will hold off...
April 1, 2015 | Business Wire
More than half of all U.S. residents have experienced a traumatic event, like domestic abuse, sexual assault, neglect, or disasters. The ideal place to identify and to show universal precautions is within primary care settings.
With...
March 28, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
The incentives in the permanent “doc-fix” legislation, which now has overwhelming bipartisan support from both houses of Congress and the president, will not, by themselves, drive physicians toward value-based compensation schemes.
But...
March 28, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
Dr. Grace Chen's frail and elderly patients can be bewildered by the automated phone directories of their healthcare providers and may give up before getting through for help. Understanding their new medications can overwhelm them. And...
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