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Category: Access to Care
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
Practices with after-hours access can prevent patients from seeking emergency care and meet patients’ needs. With various care models being evaluated to improve access to health care while simultaneously decreasing the cost of care, a recent article examines how after-hours Continue Reading …
Employer mandates: essential to reform?
Two states currently have employer mandates to provide health care for workers. New data from San Francisco updates the effectiveness of this strategy to insure America. In January 2008, the city of San Francisco implemented the Health Care Security Ordinance. Continue Reading …
SGR Fix Requires Risk for Doctors
The SGR represents an annual fiscal cliff for doctors yet the political will to fix the problem eludes Congress. Over the last decade, Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula has become a troubling financial topic for policy makers and physicians Continue Reading …
Consumer-directed health care
Consumer-Directed Health Plans have increased in popularity but are only marginally helpful. Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) intend to control costs by shifting the financial risk of health care decision-making from payers to patients. CDHPs require consumers to enroll in a Continue Reading …
Poor P4P Incentives Don’t Work
In an era of cost containment, payers and policy makers have championed the use of pay-for-performance. Recently, Medicare has initiated a pay-for-performance (P4P) policy of nonpayment for hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). One recent New England Journal of Medicine article examined the Continue Reading …
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