Author Frequently asked questions. 528 items Posts pagination Newer 1 … 16 17 18 19 20 … 53 Older RAND: Private insurers overpay hospitals September 18, 2020 RAND, September 18, 2020 Prices paid to hospitals nationally during 2018 by privately insured patients averaged 247% of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The study notes a steady increase in hospital prices, rising to the 2018 average level from an average […] Quote of the Day Caveat emptor: GAO finds brokers frequently sell non-compliant health plans September 17, 2020 By Jessie Hellmann The Hill, September 16, 2020 Some health insurance brokers provided misleading or false information to potential customers about whether their plans covered preexisting conditions, according to an undercover audit completed by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. The audit, requested by Senate Democrats, sought to determine whether companies selling health plans exempt from […] Quote of the Day We have another billion patients to take care of September 16, 2020 By Gene Bukhman, MD, Ana O Mocumbi, MD, Prof Rifat Atun, FRCP, Prof Anne E Becker, MD, Prof Zulfiqar Bhutta, PhD, Prof Agnes Binagwaho, PhD, et al. The Lancet, September 14, 2020 We live in an era of unprecedented global wealth. Nevertheless, about one billion people in low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) still experience levels […] Quote of the Day Let’s help cities join the Medicare for All bandwagon September 15, 2020 By Harry Saltzgaver The Grunion, September 10, 2020 Mayor Robert Garcia said Thursday, Sept. 10, he and the mayor of Oakland have created an organization to promote Medicare for All in the country as a whole. The announcement was in the form of a press release out of Garcia’s office. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff is […] Quote of the Day Unionized nursing homes have lower COVID-19 mortality rates September 14, 2020 By Adam Dean, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Simeon Kimmel Health Affairs, September 10, 2020 (Ahead of print) Abstract More than 40% of all reported coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the United States have occurred in nursing homes. As a result, health care worker access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection control policies in nursing […] Quote of the Day British Columbia rules health care access to be based on need and not ability to pay September 11, 2020 Business Wire, September 10, 2020 In today’s landmark ruling in the Cambie Surgery Centre case, Justice Steeves dealt a strong blow to the efforts of Dr. Brian Day and others to undermine Canada’s publicly-funded health care system. The decade-long legal attack launched by one of the largest for-profit surgical centres in Canada sought to invalidate […] Quote of the Day MIPS penalizes physicians who take care of vulnerable populations September 10, 2020 By Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P.; William L. Schpero, Ph.D.; Amelia M. Bond, Ph.D.; Yuting Qian, M.S.; Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., Ph.D. JAMA, September 8, 2020 Key Points Question: Was there an association between patient social risk and physician performance in the first year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a major Medicare value-based payment […] Quote of the Day Medicaid managed care plans reduce spending by providing less of everything September 9, 2020 By Michael Geruso, Timothy J. Layton, Jacob Wallace National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2020 Abstract Exploiting random assignment of Medicaid beneficiaries to managed care plans, we identify plan-specific effects on healthcare utilization. Auto-assignment to the lowest-spending plan generates 30% lower spending than if the same enrollee were assigned to the highest-spending plan, despite identical […] Quote of the Day The CO-OP failure should be a lesson for a Medicare public option September 8, 2020 By Phil Galewitz and Kaiser Health News Fortune, September 6, 2020 New Mexico Health Connections’ decision to close at year’s end will leave just three of the 23 nonprofit health insurance co-ops that sprung from the Affordable Care Act. Lauded as a way to boost competition among insurers and hold down prices on the Obamacare […] Quote of the Day Warren, Pressley and Lee introduce ‘Anti-Racism in Public Health Act’ September 4, 2020 Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, September 3, 2020 The Anti-Racism in Public Health Act would create a Center on Anti-Racism in Health at the CDC, improving the federal government’s ability to develop anti-racist health policy; Bill would also create a Law Enforcement Violence Prevention Program at the CDC Washington, DC — […] Quote of the Day Posts pagination Newer 1 … 16 17 18 19 20 … 53 Older
