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How Choices In Exchange Design For States Could Affect Insurance Premiums And Levels Of Coverage [Small Business Insurance Exchanges]
The Affordable Care Act gives states the option to create health insurance exchanges from which individuals and small employers can purchase health insurance. States have considerable flexibility in how they design and implement these exchanges. We analyze several key design options being considered, using the Urban Institute’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model: creating separate versus ...
Spurring Enrollment In Medicare Savings Programs Through A Substitute For The Asset Test Focused On Investment Income [The Care Span]
Fewer than one-third of eligible Medicare beneficiaries enroll in Medicare savings programs, which pay premiums and, in some cases, eliminate out-of-pocket cost sharing for poor and near-poor enrollees. Many beneficiaries don’t participate in savings programs because they must complete a cumbersome application process, including a burdensome asset test. We demonstrate that a streamlined alternative to ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Pay-For-Performance Program In Taiwan Improved Care For Some Diabetes Patients, But Doctors May Have Excluded Sicker Ones [Global Prevention & Control]
Many countries have implemented pay-for-performance programs to improve the quality of care. The structure of these programs, however, can have perverse consequences beyond improving care for patients. To investigate this possibility, we studied the pattern of enrollment of patients with diabetes in the first five years of a pay-for-performance program in Taiwan’s National Health Insurance ...
Medicaid Expansion Under Health Reform May Increase Service Use And Improve Access for Low-Income Adults With Diabetes [Implications For Medicaid]
Medicaid’s key role in financing diabetes care will grow when many low-income uninsured people with diabetes gain eligibility to the program in 2014 under the Affordable Care Act. Using a national data set to describe current health care use and spending among the nonelderly, low-income adult population, we found that adult Medicaid beneficiaries with diabetes ...
People & Places [People & Places]
A community collaborative helps residents tackle formidable barriers to healthier behavior: lack of access to exercise, food insecurity, and even Chicago’s bitter winters.
The Global Financial Crisis Has Led To A Slowdown In Growth Of Funding To Improve Health In Many Developing Countries [Web First]
How has funding to developing countries for health improvement changed in the wake of the global financial crisis? The question is vital for policy making, planning, and advocacy purposes in donor and recipient countries alike. We measured the total amount of financial and in-kind assistance that flowed from both public and private channels to improve ...
The Global Financial Crisis Has Led To A Slowdown In Growth Of Funding To Improve Health In Many Developing Countries [Web First]
How has funding to developing countries for health improvement changed in the wake of the global financial crisis? The question is vital for policy making, planning, and advocacy purposes in donor and recipient countries alike. We measured the total amount of financial and in-kind assistance that flowed from both public and private channels to improve ...
How The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Can Best Influence Real-World Health Care Decision Making [Comparative Effectiveness Research]
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 created the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to promote and fund comparative effectiveness research and to ensure that the product of this research improves real-world health care decisions. Notwithstanding limitations imposed by Congress on the institute’s ability to influence federal payers’ coverage and payment policies, the organization now has considerable ...
