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June 25, 2015 | New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Obama’s health care law allows the federal government to provide nationwide tax subsidies to help poor and middle-class people buy health insurance, a sweeping vindication...
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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 | New York Times
A new round of consolidation in the health insurance industry appeared closer as companies seek to grow larger, driven in part by cost-cutting and opportunities that are part of the Affordable Care Act. In the latest jockeying, Humana,...
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June 25, 2015 | HealthIT Analytics
Oregon’s network of sixteen coordinated care organizations (CCOs), similar to accountable care organizations springing up across the nation, are continuing their steady march towards improved quality and cost savings, the Oregon Health...
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June 24, 2015 | HealthIT Analytics
Policymakers and healthcare providers must focus on improving strategies for comprehensive care coordination if they are to make headway against the rising tide of chronic disease, says the American College of Cardiology (ACC) in a letter...
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June 23, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
In today’s health care system, physicians are faced with an unprecedented number of quality measures required by different entities. Payment is pivoting away from traditional reimbursement models toward value-based health care, where value...
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June 23, 2015 | Annals of Family Medicine
Abstract PURPOSE Health information technology (IT) offers promising tools for improving care coordination. We assessed the feasibility and acceptability of 6 proposed care coordination objectives for stage 3 of the Centers for Medicare...
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June 23, 2015 | FierceHealthPayer
With millions of Americans' health insurance in jeopardy as the Supreme Court weighs a case against a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, a newly released government survey indicates that the rate of uninsured Americans has dropped...
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June 23, 2015 | Medscape
Five years after Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), almost half of primary care physicians are in the dark about pay raises the law bestowed on them, according to a new survey of these practitioners. That survey, conducted...
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June 23, 2015 | HealthIT Analytics
Becoming a patient-centered medical home takes a great deal of hard work and a steady commitment to continual practice improvement.  To achieve the coveted Level III NCQA recognition, providers must operate at peak performance, leveraging...
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June 23, 2015 | The Boston Globe
SPRINGFIELD — Dr. Katie Jobbins rested her forehead in her hand, tapping her fingers rapidly as she waited for a crisis counselor on the other end of the phone to pick up. It was a busy spring day at the clinic on High Street, and one of...
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June 22, 2015 | Fierce Healthcare
Implementing an accountable care organization is nearly impossible without high-quality clinical engagement, according to a panel of healthcare leaders at Friday's sixth annual National ACO Summit in the District of Columbia. And that...
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June 22, 2015 | Los Angeles Times
Health insurer Anthem Inc. pressed ahead with its pursuit of a $54-billion merger with Cigna Corp. despite a spurned bid and increasing concerns about industry consolidation. Joseph Swedish, Anthem's chief executive, went on the offensive...
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June 22, 2015 | AAFP News
Too often, the socioeconomic factors in a patient's life don't receive the attention they merit, and that is where the value of population health becomes clear. Many physician practices are beginning to address some often-neglected health...
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June 22, 2015 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) submitted a letter to the Senate Finance Committee on June 22, 2015 in response to their request for stakeholder recommendations on policies that will lead to the improved health of...
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June 22, 2015 | HealthIT Analytics
One of the fundamental building blocks of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is the importance of keeping a close eye on care coordination as patients move between the primary care setting and the hospital, emergency department, or...
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June 22, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
The U.S.’s high obesity rate and its relationship to other chronic diseases is not new information to most public health scientists and physicians, but a new analysis suggests that prevention strategies exist that could counter this trend...
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June 21, 2015 | The Baltimore Sun
NEW YORK At the Interfaith Dental Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, people with dental pain can walk into a ground floor office off Bedford Avenue and get treated without an appointment. They might have to wait in a packed waiting room....
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June 20, 2015 | AAFP News
June 20, 2015 12:18 pm News Staff – The AAFP moved swiftly to rebuke House leaders for proposing drastic funding cuts in a draft appropriations bill (appropriations.house.gov) released this week by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on...
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June 19, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
Recent evaluations of two regional medical home pilots (i.e., efforts to improve the capabilities and performance of primary care practices) within the Pennsylvania Chronic Care Initiative (PACCI) have produced differing results. In the ...
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