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As his state's health reforms mark their sixth anniversary, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick explains how he hopes to confront the next health reform challenges -- controlling health care costs and overhauling the payment system.
As Massachusetts policy makers and stakeholders focus on efforts to control health care costs through payment reform, Health Care for All's Paul Williams outlines the considerations that are crucial to ensuring that patients experience a higher quality of care, and the most vulnerable are protected.
Lynn Nicholas, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, outlines how tackling health care cost, payment and quality issues is the next necessary step in order to make the state's reform achievements sustainable.
Kaiser Health News asked Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Hospital Association President Lynn Nichols, Health Care For All's Paul Williams and Massachusetts Medical Society's Lynda Young about how the state can reform the health care payment system to control costs.
These devices can easily run thousands of dollars but Medicare doesn't pay anything and other policies generally have limited reimbursements. One insurer is offering a low-cost program to help.
Four big Minnesota managed-care plans will repay state and federal taxpayers an estimated $73 million as part of a deal the HMOs made with Gov. Mark Dayton's administration last year.
Nine groups list 45 practices they say are overused and may harm patients.
President Barack Obama today attacked the Republican 2013 budget as a "Trojan horse" and "thinly veiled social Darwinism" -- and defended the constitutionality of the health law. Watch excerpts from the speech.
Competing ideas and election-year politics will thwart major legislation in 2012, but look for budgetary action at year's end.
The coverage change could help focus doctors and patients on mental health issues, which often go undiagnosed in the elderly, especially those who are dealing with multiple chronic physical problems.
Consumers owed rebates will get a letter along with a check beginning in August, but insurers don't want to have to send notices about the rebate rules to customers not owed money.
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that a test project
KHN's Julie Appleby reports that the health law is so comprehensive that even if the Supreme Court struck the insurance requirement, many provisions would survive.
In these programs, people who have been prescribed a diagnostic test or elective procedure earn a bonus when they opt to go to a less expensive facility than the one recommended by their physician.
Experts don't expect the Supreme Court's ruling to alter that course.
Doctors who carry mobile devices are often hit with a flurry of texts, e-mails, Facebook messages and tweets that sometimes keep them from patients' needs.
Residents of a largely conservative region in California where 1 out of every 3 people lack coverage share their attitudes toward the health law.
The GOP Doctors Caucus is sending letters Friday soliciting ideas on how to "save" the seniors' program and build bipartisan support.
A panel established by the health law to rein in Medicare spending is the target of a House GOP effort to begin dismantling the 2010 health law.
New Jersey attempted reforms without imposing a mandate. The outcome in that state offers reasons why supporters say the individual mandate is necessary if the federal health law is to achieve its goals.
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