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February 2, 2018 | Oregon Health Authority
Primary care is the front line of Oregon’s health care system. Primary care providers deliver preventive services such as flu shots and cancer screenings, respond to new patient needs and undiagnosed conditions, and identify health...
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February 1, 2018
Every 25 minutes an infant is born to an opioid-addicted mother, and that's when the intense care starts. The average hospital bill to Medicaid in Missouri is about $63,000 per birth of a child with so-called neonatal abstinence syndrome...
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February 1, 2018
A bipartisan group of senators is calling on President Trump to boost funding for Alzheimer’s research in his fiscal 2019 budget set to be released this month. “At a time when the United States is spending more than $200 billion a year to...
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February 1, 2018 | NPR
It's one of the intractable financial boondoggles of the U.S. health care system: Lots and lots of patients get lots and lots of tests and procedures that they don't need. Women still get annual cervical cancer testing even when it's ...
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January 31, 2018 | AAFP News
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) and physician burnout may seem like an unlikely pairing for a research study. After all, the PCMH model was designed to provide better care to patients through team-based care and a variety of...
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January 31, 2018 | Healthcare Dive
CMS debuted CPC+ in April 2016, billing it as the “largest-ever” effort to transform the way primary care is delivered and paid for in the U.S. The focus is on preventive care and is part of the agency’s broader goal to reward quality over...
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January 30, 2018 | New York Times
SEATTLE — In a sign of just how fed up corporate America is with the country’s expensive and often confusing health care system, three behemoths — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — announced on Tuesday that they would form an...
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January 26, 2018 | STATELINE
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Repeatedly rated one of the healthiest and happiest places to live in the United States, this medium-sized college town with spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains tends to attract entrepreneurs, freelancers...
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January 25, 2018 | The Chronicle
If state leg­is­la­tors needed a cheer­ing sec­tion for en­act­ing uni­ver­sal pri­mary health care, they got one Tues­day night. Dur­ing a pub­lic hear­ing jointly hosted by the House Health Care and Sen­ate Health and Wel­fare com­mit­...
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January 22, 2018 | Delaware Online
Doctors bring significantly more jobs — and money —  into Delaware than those working in higher education, nursing care facilities and legal services, according to a new report by the American Medical Association. The organization's 2018...
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January 16, 2018 | The New Yorker
Forward, a startup that wants to position itself as the Apple Store of doctors’ offices, opened a new location in Los Angeles in November, in an upscale open-air mall two doors down from an actual Apple Store. On a recent morning, in...
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January 12, 2018 | AAFP News
It's been more than 100 days since Congress allowed stable funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire. Despite bipartisan support for the program -- and a new, reduced cost estimate for the program from the...
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January 12, 2018
A report touted this week by the American Osteopathic Association shows an 85 percent increase in osteopathic medical students since 2007. Now, about 1 in 4 medical students attends an osteopathic medicine college—an enrollment figure that...
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January 11, 2018 | Vox
Maryland is first out of the gate with a plan to replace the individual mandate — an early sign that the states that like Obamacare will be spending a lot of time thinking through what fits best into this gaping health policy hole that the...
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January 10, 2018
CMS announced the launch of a new bundled payment model on Tuesday, less than two months after it canceled two mandatory bundled payment programs created under the Obama administration.  The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BCPI)...
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January 9, 2018 | The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, a partnership of organizations that promote women’s health announced the launch of a new campaign called Care Women Deserve, which aims to educate people about the vital preventive services available to women with...
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January 8, 2018
The expansion of Medicaid helps rural hospitals stay afloat in states like Colorado, which added 400,000 people to the health insurance program under the Affordable Care Act. Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid were about 6 times...
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January 7, 2018
The incoming president of NYC Health & Hospitals wants to turn the nation’s largest public health care network into an agency that focuses less on hospitalized care and more on primary care, similar to initiatives carried out...
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January 2, 2018 | NPR
Telemedicine isn't just for rural areas without a lot of doctors anymore. In the last few years, urban areas all over the country have been exploring how they can connect to patients virtually to improve access to primary care and keep...
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December 26, 2017 | San Francisco Chronicle
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board has approved a $620 million budget for OneCare Vermont. The budget approved Thursday marks the beginning of a five-year experiment to transform health care in the state. The...
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