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December 8, 2016 | Healthcare Informatics
The Centers for Medicare & and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced two new models from the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) that will aim to increase patient engagement in care decisions by putting more information in the hands of...
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December 7, 2016 | Physicians Practice
Once again, the patient experience is the topic at hand as William Maples, MD, a onetime practicing oncologist and current chief medical officer of Professional Research Consultants Inc., a privately held healthcare market research firm,...
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December 7, 2016 | Kaiser Health News
The Senate passed the first major mental health legislation in nearly a decade, sending the 21st Century Cures Act to President Barack Obama, who has promised to sign it. The Senate voted 94-5 to approve the act, which sailed through the...
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December 7, 2016 | Politico
Obamacare is squarely in the cross hairs of the incoming Trump administration and congressional Republicans: Both the president-elect and Republican congressional leaders have said they plan to repeal and replace the sweeping health care...
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December 5, 2016 | Healthcare IT News
Patients with common chronic diseases, as well as those seen by less experienced providers, are more likely to receive specialty referrals than others being treated within the patient-centered medical home environment, according to an...
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December 3, 2016 | Vox Science and Health
Democrats really, really, really do not want Donald Trump to dramatically overhaul Medicare, replacing the current universal guarantee of government-provided health insurance for senior citizens with a voucher to buy private insurance....
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December 2, 2016 | Modern Healthcare
Healthcare spending in 2015 increased at a rate of 5.8%, the fastest in eight years, as more people obtained health insurance and prescription drug costs continued to rise, according to a CMS report published Friday by Health Affairs. For...
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December 1, 2016 | Kaiser Health News
Joint replacements. Cardiac care. Chemotherapy. What do those things have to do with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act? Economists and policymakers think the U.S. may be overpaying for such services, which helps drive up health care...
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November 28, 2016 | Modern Healthcare
President-elect Donald Trump's selections for the top healthcare posts in the federal government signal an appetite to move aggressively to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, overhaul Medicare and give states more control over...
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November 23, 2016 | Healthcare Dive
Dive Brief: Repealing the ACA without a replacement plan in place could spell disaster for health insurance markets and consumers, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in an interview with the Huffington Post. Republicans...
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November 22, 2016 | Becker's Hospital Review
The demand for primary care physicians is increasing and the once large payment gap between specialists and PCPs may be lessening, Diagnostic Imaging reports. Here are five takeaways: 1. In 2015, 52.5 percent of PCPs made between $175,...
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November 20, 2016 | Managed Healthcare Executive
By 2017, an additional $140 million could be channeled to primary care physicians, according to the final version of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) released by CMS. Over time, according to a blog post from CMS Acting...
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November 17, 2016 | CMS
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a tool to share automatically electronic data for the Medicare Quality Payment Program. This new release is the first in a series that will be part of CMS’s ongoing...
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November 17, 2016 | Vox Science and Health
If there’s one thing Republicans have been clear about for the past six years, it is that the top of their agenda includes repealing Obamacare. But Obamacare repeal would leave an estimated 22 million Americans without coverage and wreak...
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November 17, 2016 | Kaiser Health News
The federal government has issued final regulations that reform the way Medicare pays doctors. If the new rules achieve their intended goal, all Americans — and not just Medicare enrollees — could see improvements in the quality of their...
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November 15, 2016 | STAT
With policy developments in health and science coming fast and furious these days, it can be hard to suss out what’s happening in the now — Is Obamacare being repealed? Revised? Maybe just renamed? — let alone the long game. But a good...
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November 15, 2016 | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: Despite the widespread adoption of patient-centered medical homes into primary care practice, the evidence supporting their effect on health care outcomes has come primarily from geographically localized and well-integrated...
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November 10, 2016 | Medical Economics
Internist Michael Soppet, MD, part of an eight-physician internal medicine practice in Dothan, Alabama, achieved recognition as a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) in 2011. Recently, however, he and his partners opted not to apply for...
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November 10, 2016 | MedPage Today
WASHINGTON -- Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other players in the healthcare system need to look after patients' non-medical needs if they want their health outcomes to improve, several speakers said Thursday at a briefing on...
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November 9, 2016 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – Today the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) kicked off its Annual Fall Conference at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. The conference’s theme, “Primary Care: Our Primary Cause,” focuses on the critical...
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