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Category: Affordable Care Act
Will Value Based Purchasing Work?
The Premier Pay-for-Performance Demonstration project in Medicare shows a tapering trend of quality improvement both for participating and non-participating hospitals. Perhaps secular trends, not P4P, are responsible for this. The National Demonstration Project is a national pay-for-performance program considered to Continue Reading …
Tho’ you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Currently, employer-sponsored health insurance is treated as a tax free benefit. While this encourages employers and employees to obtain coverage, it is a limitless subsidy. The Cadillac Tax would cap this subsidy in coming years. Beginning January 1st, 2018, the Continue Reading …
Everyone Enters the Health Care Market
Next week, the Supreme Court will begin deliberation as to whether or not citizens of the United States can be required to purchase health insurance. If constitutional, health care will no longer be voluntary but a duty of citizenship. With Continue Reading …
[Anecdotes] Affordable Care Act provides benefits for small price tag
I recently came across a chart from @NatHarward and forwarded along by @AHIPCoverage regarding the increase in insurance premiums expected as a result of the recent health reform law. Although we typically do not report on studies that are not peer-reviewed, I Continue Reading …
Scrambling to rescue ACO’s
Health care systems such as the Mayo and Cleveland clinics – which are organized the way policy makers envision accountable care organizations – initially balked at the rules proposed by CMS. Now, the rules have changed. After receiving a significant Continue Reading …