The More High-Need Patients, the Better the Care
Physician practices that serve higher proportions of high-need patients have lower health care costs, fewer hospital admissions, and fewer emergency room visits than physician practices that serve lower proportions of high-need patients. This was the conclusion of researchers who analyzed [...]
NAUH Expresses Views on Health Reform Proposal
NAUH does not support the American Health Care Act in its current form, the organization told members of the House of Representatives in a letter it sent yesterday. In its letter, NAUH noted that the recently proposed AHCA would result [...]
NAUH Weighs in on American Health Care Act
In a letter to members of Congress and selected congressional staff, NAUH shared its perspective on the American Health Care Act, the legislation Congress is considering as a means of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. The letter highlights [...]
MACPAC Looks at High-Cost Hepatitis C Drugs
The emergence of exceptionally high-cost drugs that offer unprecedented benefits for Hepatitis C patients has posed a considerable challenge to state Medicaid programs: the drugs offer cures, not treatment, yet their costs are potentially budget-busting. The Medicaid and CHIP Payment [...]
MACPAC Meets, Discusses Medicaid, CHIP Issues
The non-partisan legislative branch agency that advises Congress, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the states on a variety of Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program issues met last week in Washington, D.C. Among the issues on [...]
MedPAC Meets, Discusses Issues
Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met for two days last week in Washington, D.C. to discuss a number of policy issues important to health care providers. Among those issues were: a unified payment system for post-acute care hospital [...]
Comparing “Repeal and Replace” Proposals
How can you keep score while Congress considers multiple proposals to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act? The Kaiser Family Foundation has just created a new tool that enables users to compare and contrast all of the current repeal [...]
Group Seeks Preservation, Reform of Federal Innovation Effort
A coalition of 35 patient, physician, and hospital groups has written to new Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price and asked him to continue the federal government’s exploration of new ways to deliver and pay for Medicare services [...]
Medicaid Directors Look at Value-Based Purchasing
One of the tools many states are using to attempt to reduce their Medicaid costs and improve the quality of the care delivered to their Medicaid beneficiaries is value-based purchasing. In a new issue brief, the National Association of Medicaid [...]
Serving High-Need, High-Cost Medicare Patients
With Medicare beneficiaries who have four or more chronic conditions accounting for 90 percent of Medicare hospital readmissions and 74 percent of Medicare costs (both 2010 figures), policy-makers are constantly looking for better ways to serve such individuals. Academic research [...]
