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December 21, 2017 | AMA Wire
Though reports indicate physicians are becoming more involved in alternative payment models (APMs), fee for service continues to be the dominant way physician practices receive revenue, according to new research published today. Nearly 60...
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December 21, 2017
Patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) in the United States and primary care homes (PCHs) in England share many design features and are viewed as foundational to overall system transformation by American, English, and other policy...
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December 19, 2017 | Medical Economics
Primary care is the next frontier when it comes to managing HIV care. Sebastian Ruhs, MD, PhD, director of Chase Brexton Health Care’s Infectious Diseases Center of Excellence in Baltimore, Maryland, said he is witnessing an uptick in HIV...
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December 13, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
When Dr. Yaron Elad is having a hard time convincing a patient that a test is unnecessary, he sometimes pulls out his smartphone right in the exam room. Elad, a cardiologist at 
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, uses the phone...
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December 13, 2017 | Los Angeles Times
Fewer Americans are putting off doctor visits or struggling with medical bills, according to a new report examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act. The report – based on a state-by-state survey of data collected by the federal...
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December 13, 2017 | Vermont Public Radio
A group of House and Senate lawmakers will try to lay the groundwork next year for a publicly funded system of universal primary care in Vermont. Three years ago, the push for single-payer health care in Vermont came to an abrupt halt...
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December 12, 2017 | Center for Health Care Strategies
Just a few years ago, nearly all of the 11 million people in the U.S. who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid had to navigate two separate, almost entirely disconnected systems of care. In 2012, the nation spent more than $300...
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December 10, 2017
Margaret Leatherwood has eight choices for health insurance next year but no good options. The cheapest individual coverage available in her market would eat up nearly a quarter of the income her husband brings home from the oilfields...
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December 10, 2017
Paying doctors for outcomes instead of volume may seem to make sense, but what happens when patients can’t do their part to follow prescribed behavioral changes or take their medications? For some patients, their socioeconomic situation...
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December 8, 2017 | Gallup News
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Fifty-six percent of Americans say the federal government should be responsible for making sure all Americans have healthcare coverage, up slightly from 52% last year and the highest level in 10 years. From 2000, the...
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December 5, 2017 | Pew Charitable Trusts
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — When Hannah White first showed up at the Mountain Area Health Education Center here three years ago, she was in trouble. She was 20 years old, a couple months into her first pregnancy and on the run from an abusive...
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November 22, 2017
WASHINGTON –  The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) this week called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to maintain progress on its efforts to drive the shift to value, while empowering beneficiaries...
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November 15, 2017 | Fierce Healthcare
Physician practices that are able to deliver high-quality care at the most affordable cost have some common attributes, according to a new study. Researchers at Stanford University identified six factors that were statistically...
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November 11, 2017
When it comes to promoting investment in primary care, Oregon might very well be the country’s current champion innovator. Over the past eight years, the state has put a priority on primary care, putting in place a series of policies that...
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November 11, 2017
It took many decades for it to become widely recognized that one-third of healthcare has little or no value. To expect to reverse this trend in a fraction of that time would be magical thinking. The Choosing Wisely initiative is a tool...
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November 9, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] and some smaller technology companies are launching campaigns to publicize Obamacare enrollment among their contract workers after the Trump administration slashed government...
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November 8, 2017 | Kansas City Business Journal
A doctor's appointment with no paperwork or co-pays might sound like a dream, but Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is working on creating just that. The Kansas City insurer teamed up with Shawnee Mission Health to launch a new...
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November 4, 2017
If you get health insurance from your employer, you have to make decision every year about which coverage to choose. So here is a warning: If you are simply sticking with an old plan with a low deductible, that may well be a wrong and...
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October 26, 2017 | AJMC
While Congress has spent much of the year debating the fate of “Obamacare,” healthcare transformation continues among payers and in practices. The quest for “patient-centered” care—which focuses on prevention, involves patients in...
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October 24, 2017 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC –  Today, at the Health Affairs Briefing - “Choosing Wisely: Opportunity and Challenges in Curbing Medical Overuse” - the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) announced its partnership with the American Board...
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