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May 23, 2019
Community Statement on Medicare Coverage for Medically Necessary Oral and Dental Health Therapies
(The PCPCC joined the Community in 2019)
The undersigned organizations are proud to join in support of Medicare coverage for...
May 20, 2019 | Benefits Pro
Decades ago, when a patient was too sick to go to the doctor’s office, the doctor made a house call. Though this practice seems old-fashioned now, most people would agree that the current system often leaves much to be desired. The...
May 18, 2019 | Washington Post
In 1900, the average life expectancy in the United States was just 47.3 years. Today, it is 78.6, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many people will outstrip that average.
But is that advance really...
May 17, 2019
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) applauds Colorado Governor Jared Polis and Vermont Governor Phil Scott for signing into law legislation in their respective states that will enhance primary care services and payment...
May 16, 2019 | Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation
At the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, we’ve long been champions of the important role primary care plays in improving health outcomes, lowering health care costs and achieving health equity. This is especially true...
May 15, 2019 | Bloomberg
The United States is confronted by its lowest number of births in 32 years, according to provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics.
The total fertility rate (which represents the number of births per woman...
May 15, 2019 | USA Today
Patients' risk of dying from medical mistakes, deadly infections and safety lapses have gotten much worse at the lowest ranked U.S. hospitals, underscoring Americans' need to check ratings of their local hospitals, new research released...
May 15, 2019 | NPR
Amid one of the largest measles outbreaks in the U.S. in recent history, vaccines are on the minds of many Americans.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week that the number of measles cases this year has...
May 10, 2019
Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted laypeople who help their communities achieve health and well-being. For generations, they’ve worked in church basements, shelters, and food pantries to address a variety of health and social...
May 9, 2019 | NPR
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Today at the White House, President Trump held an event on surprise medical bills. He announced his priorities for legislation that would end the practice, and he highlighted that the stories of two patients who had...
May 8, 2019 | Washington Post
Hundreds of women die preventable deaths of complications from pregnancy each year in the United States, even weeks or months after childbirth, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health experts say...
May 3, 2019 | NPR
Workers with a steady paycheck already know that wages have been stubbornly slow to rise. Meanwhile, those who get health insurance through a job have seen their deductibles shoot up. In fact, says Noam Levey, a health care reporter for...
May 3, 2019 | Health Affairs Blog
The Trump administration is making fundamental changes to the Medicare program. These reforms are every bit as radical as the changes we have seen in federal policy governing employer-provided coverage and the market for individual...
April 30, 2019 | Health Affairs Blog
With research showing that social and economic factors—such as access to high-quality jobs, education, and housing—have a greater impact on health outcomes than does the medical care a person receives, philanthropy is increasingly funding...
April 25, 2019 | STAT
The great hope of the primary care initiative unveiled by the Trump administration this week is that it will finally pay doctors to use technology to stay connected to their patients and intervene before — not after — health problems arise...
April 24, 2019 | San Francisco Business Times
Doctor On Demand is paving the way for virtual-first health care, kicking off its primary care offering with nationwide health insurer Humana.
The San Francisco-based telemedicine company, which began as an urgent-care platform, has...
April 23, 2019
“Primary care is a small slice of health spending overall, but it has a significant impact on downstream costs and quality.”
- Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of HHS
Washington, DC--April 23, 2019– The Patient-Centered...
April 22, 2019 | Mathematica Policy Research
To forge a path to progress in improving health care and reducing costs, payers, practitioners, and policymakers increasingly agree that we need to strengthen primary care. Mathematica’s seasoned experts continue to lead research and...
April 22, 2019 | NPR
One of the biggest corporations on the planet is taking a serious interest in the intersection of artificial intelligence and health.
Google and its sister companies, parts of the holding company Alphabet, are making a huge investment in...
April 17, 2019
It’s no secret that the practice of medicine is complex. Comparative effectiveness research (CER) has offered an approach to evaluate the outcomes of different health care methods and identify which treatments matter most to patients....
