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February 26, 2019 | PCORI
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $2.8 million to fund two projects designed to speed the use of results of PCORI-funded studies into practice. The Board also approved a PCORnet...
February 26, 2019 | STAT
Medicare’s innovation chief, Adam Boehler, wants to “blow up” America’s system of paying for primary care by revamping one of its most fundamental building blocks: the old-fashioned office visit.
In coming weeks, Boehler’s office is...
February 25, 2019 | Modern Healthcare
For many years, the battle cry of healthcare cost warriors was, “Eliminate all those wasteful services.”
More recently that evolved to, “Pay providers based on value rather than volume.” But there were always those who insisted the real...
February 25, 2019 | Health Leaders Media
The primary care setting is the most appropriate venue for the screening and early treatment of depression, according to the lead author of an article published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Depression is one of the...
February 21, 2019 | Forbes
Growing up in Canada, I never really had to worry about healthcare coverage, and when I first moved to the United States, I had a traditional desk job which came with benefits. After deciding to go back to being a full-time freelancer and...
February 21, 2019 | Fierce Healthcare
When Kaiser Permanente announced Tuesday that it won approval to open its new medical school in California, the news that caught headlines was its decision to offer free tuition to all the medical students in its first five graduating...
February 20, 2019 | The Commonwealth Fund
Many pioneering programs have reduced avoidable utilization of care and lowered costs while improving health outcomes for adults with complex needs. The most promising models target high-risk populations and provide key elements of person-...
February 20, 2019 | New York Times
Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, but scattered outbreaks have occurred in recent years. This year there have been five — in New York, Texas, and Washington State — for a total of more than 120 cases. Here’s...
February 20, 2019 | Kaiser Family Foundation
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides enhanced federal matching funds to states that expand Medicaid to nonelderly adults up to 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL, $17,236/year for an individual in 2019). The ACA enhanced match (93%...
February 19, 2019 | U.S. News & World Report
More primary care doctors mean longer life for patients, but a shortage of these physicians is looming, a new study finds.
Why? Fewer medical students are choosing primary care as a career, mostly because of money, the researchers...
February 19, 2019 | STAT
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a fatal blow to an expansive Maryland law that aimed to bar drug makers from “price gouging” consumers.
The law, which the Maryland General Assembly passed in 2017, would have prohibited generic drug...
February 18, 2019 | Forbes
The nation’s supply of primary care physicians is helping Americans live longer but a sliding “per capita supply” is a worrisome trend for U.S. population health, new research in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine shows.
The new JAMA...
February 18, 2019 | Health Leaders Media
Every 10 additional primary care physicians per 100,000 population was associated with a 51.5 day increase in life expectancy, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Using that same metric, an increase in 10...
February 16, 2019 | New York Times
PORTLAND, Ore. — The one-day immunization clinic at David Douglas High School in Portland, Ore., was hectic on Saturday, with a wait of 45 minutes to over an hour just to see a nurse. But Cameron Wagner said that after balking this long at...
February 14, 2019 | Fierce Healthcare
The federal government is launching a challenge competition to explore the use of artificial intelligence to predict health outcomes and improve health care delivery.
Adam Boehler, director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid...
February 14, 2019 | Health Affairs Blog
As clinicians, we witness firsthand the barriers patients face when they need mental health care—barriers with deep roots in our culture and in the systems that dictate how we treat patients and pay for care.
Mental health has long been...
February 14, 2019 | Healthcare Dive
Dive Brief:
CMS may move to push early adoption of infrastructure promoting transparency and stymieing data blocking, Adam Boehler, the head of the agency's payment model testing and innovation center, hinted Wednesday.
Speaking...
February 14, 2019 | EurekAlert!
JOURNAL: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
FUNDERS: National Institutes of Health, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation
While sleep questionnaires are commonly completed by children...
February 12, 2019 | STAT
Two decades ago, my personal and professional lives collided when my wife was diagnosed with cancer. Together we experienced the lack of transparency and synchronization across the health care continuum. That changed the lens through which...
February 12, 2019
In a briefing on Tuesday February 12th, 2019, CareFirst’s president and CEO, Brian Pieninck discussed the future of healthcare and what role CareFirst will play in actualizing that future. One important part of the conversation was...
