Posts Tagged ‘Massachusetts Health’
Massachusetts Health Reforms: Uninsurance Remains Low, Self-Reported Health Status Improves As State Prepares To Tackle Costs [Web First]
The Massachusetts health reform initiative enacted into law in 2006 continued to fare well in 2010, with uninsurance rates remaining quite low and employer-sponsored insurance still strong. Access to health care also remained strong, and first-time reductions in emergency department visits and hospital inpatient stays suggested improvements in the effectiveness of health care delivery in ...
Can You Really Fire Your Insurance, Mitt?
By TRUDY LIEBERMAN Romney’s remark last week about firing your insurance company apparently harmed him little in the New Hampshire primary. But as the quote has rocketed around, it might be misleading some into thinking that the Massachusetts health care reforms that Romney signed into law made it so people can willy-nilly get ...
Massachusetts Health Reforms: Uninsurance Remains Low, Self-Reported Health Status Improves As State Prepares To Tackle Costs [Web First]
The Massachusetts health reform initiative enacted into law in 2006 continued to fare well in 2010, with uninsurance rates remaining quite low and employer-sponsored insurance still strong. Access to health care also remained strong, and first-time reductions in emergency department visits and hospital inpatient stays suggested improvements in the effectiveness of health care delivery in ...
Health Care As Economic Engine?
By Evan Falchuk Former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Peter Orszag is sounding a pretty serious alarm about American health care expenses lately. In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, he writes: “The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that between now and 2050, Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal spending on health care will rise ...
Medical Group Responses To Global Payment: Early Lessons From The ‘Alternative Quality Contract’ In Massachusetts [Health Plans & Providers]
The largest insurer in Massachusetts, Blue Cross Blue Shield, began a new program in 2009 that combines global payments—fixed payments for the care of patient populations during a specified time period—with large potential quality bonuses for medical groups. In interviews with representatives of the participating medical groups, many of which could be considered prototype accountable ...
