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Category: Marketplace
Obamacare’s Impact on the Safety Net
Safety-net hospitals (SNHs) are a legacy of America’s failure to ensure universal health care. Though EMTALA requires all hospitals to assess and stabilize patients regardless of ability to pay, SNHs provide a vital function by going beyond that minimum standard Continue Reading …
Trimming the Fat
The use of costly, unnecessary medical tests that provide little benefit to the patient, known as low-value healthcare services, is a major cause of wasteful spending in the healthcare system. The recent rise of consumer-directed health plans (CDHP) aims to Continue Reading …
Do Not Pass ACO!
The Stark Law prevents physicians from referring patients to facilities where they have an ownership stake. What happens, though, when the investors behind a hospital also own the post acute care facility to which it refers? Is the transition more Continue Reading …
Money Don’t Mean A Thing
Does making medications free affect a patient’s decisions to adhere to therapy for chronic conditions? In a study conducted at Kaiser Permanente, patients in a no deductible plan were moved to a deductible plan with either Value Based Insurance Design Continue Reading …
“Everyone Else Ends up Paying the Price”
“When someone without health coverage gets urgent—often expensive—medical care but doesn’t pay the bill, everyone else ends up paying the price.” This quote reflects the idea that hospitals that provide high levels of uncompensated care to uninsured patients must defray Continue Reading …
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