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July 4, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
In the world of healthcare delivery system reform, Dr. Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University is a rock star. His pioneering work in reengineering hospital processes that lead to unnecessary infections has been credited with...
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July 3, 2015 | Forbes
Following weeks of speculation, Aetna (AET) made it official this morning, agreeing to buy rival Humana (HUM) for $37 billion as merger-mania sweeps the health insurance industry. For now, the deal appears to put the two insurers into the...
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July 2, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
Gynecologists ordered fewer preventive services for women who were insured by Medicaid than for those with private coverage, a recent study found. The study by researchers at the Urban Institute examined how office-based primary care...
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July 2, 2015 | Medical Economics
Ever since James L. Holly, MD, began practicing family medicine in 1975, dictation and transcription frustrated him as a means of recording what transpired during patient visits. In 1998, two years after forming a group practice, he...
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July 1, 2015 | FierceHealthPayer
Current approaches to managing behavioral health benefits and reimbursement create challenges for effective care coordination, according to a new report from the Massachusetts attorney general's office. The AG set out to examine how...
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June 30, 2015 | MedPage Today
Addressing behavioral health issues in the primary care setting makes sense, and it's time for stakeholders to address and eliminate barriers to integrating mental health and physical health for the sake of patients, the American College...
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June 30, 2015 | Healthcare Informatics
As HCI reported on June 25, “The [U.S.] House Appropriations Committee voted in favor of a bill that would eliminate the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Agency for Health Research and Quality, a research agency that has long...
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June 30, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
Access to care remains a problem in the U.S because scheduling is based on providers' convenience, and practices fail to properly use nurse practitioners and physician assistants, according to an Institute of Medicine report. The report,...
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June 29, 2015 | The Milbank Quarterly
Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion in King v Burwell, which upholds health insurance subsidies for all eligible Americans regardless of where they live, virtually ends with the sentence quoted in the title of this essay. It is a...
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June 29, 2015 | The Huffington Post
Unequal health care continues to be a serious problem for black Americans. More than a decade after the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report showing that minority patients were less likely to receive the same quality health care...
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June 29, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case next term on whether a self-funded insurer should have to turn over certain information to the state of Vermont—a case that could have far-reaching implications. The court announced Monday that it...
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June 29, 2015 | MedPage Today
Use of telemedicine for patient care is appropriate when integrated into the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model, according to the first ever policy statement on telemedicine by the American Academy of Pediatrics. James P. Marcin,...
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June 29, 2015 | Wall Street Journal
It’s your health. So it’s time you took control of all the information about it. That’s the message that a growing number of patient advocates are trying to spread to American health-care consumers. For most people, of course, it’s all...
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June 29, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
Congressional appropriators face difficult decisions in a time of imposed national budget constraint. However, the move by the House Appropriations Committee to terminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the wrong...
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June 27, 2015 | The Boston Herald
As the clock runs out on federal dollars to support the training of primary care physicians, the news is filled with stories decrying the lack of primary care providers. In the 1990s HMOs and managed care ushered in an era of cost...
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June 27, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
Dr. Robert Wergin practices family medicine in Milford, Neb., population 2,000. His office interacts with many different health insurers. But three carriers—Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, Aetna subsidiary Coventry Health Care and...
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June 26, 2015 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
PCPCC statement of support for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Statement from PCPCC Chief Executive Officer, Marci Nielsen Washington DC – The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) is concerned...
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June 25, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
While health care experts and health philanthropy are becoming increasingly aware that oral health is essential for healthy development and healthy aging, nationwide, there remains an unacceptably high burden of oral disease. Dental caries...
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June 25, 2015 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
The PCPCC commends today's Supreme Court ruling on King v. Burwell, which represents a huge win for millions of patients and families who qualify for subsidies to purchase health insurance on the federal insurance exchange. In a 6-3...
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June 25, 2015 | Medical Healthcare
Public health advocates and providers who serve large populations of low-income patients say Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling was vital toward ensuring healthcare access to the most vulnerable patients. The court ruled 6-3 to uphold...
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