Tag Archives: Health Policy
‘Explosive’ Healthcare Spending at End of Life Uncommon
A study of spending patterns finds end-of-life healthcare spending begins far earlier than the last few months of a patient’s life. Nearly half the Medicare patients studied had high spending throughout the entire final year of life.
Pressure Mounts to Risk-Adjust for Poverty
Hospital associations and trade groups are lobbying federal officials to account for how “the disease of poverty” impacts the health of patients—and costs hospitals.
Top 8 challenges physicians face
AMA Bucks NRA: Backs Waiting Periods, Background Checks
Hospitals Off Track to Hit Value-Based Targets
Fewer than one in four hospitals are scheduled to hit the Obama Administration’s 2018 goal of providing at least half their care through value-based structures, research shows.
Not only are few hospitals scheduled to meet the 2018 value-based goal set by the Department of Health and Human Services, but only 3% meet that goal right now.
Further, only 23% expect to meet it even as late as 2019. The survey of 190 U.S. hospitals was conducted by Health Catalyst, a healthcare data and analytics company.
Supreme Court issues key decision on False Claims Act liability: 9 things to know
Commenting on the Supreme Court’s decision, Jessica L. Ellsworth, partner at Hogan Lovells, says the limitations demonstrated that the high court “fully understood that the False Claims Act remains about fraudulent conduct — not garden variety foot-faults that a regulated party may experience in complying with complex regulatory and statutory obligations.”
Payment Methods and Benefit Designs:How They Work and How They Work Together to Improve Health Care
http://www.urban.org/research/publication/benefit-designs-how-they-work/view/full_report
AB O U T T H E U R BA N I N S T I T U TE: The nonprofit Urban Institute is dedicated to elevating the debate on social and economic policy. For nearly five decades, Urban scholars have conducted research and offered evidence-based solutions that improve lives and strengthen communities across a rapidly urbanizing world. Their objective research helps expand opportunities for all, reduce hardship among the most vulnerable, and strengthen the effectiveness of the public sector.
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Payment Methods and Benefit Designs: How They Work and How They Work Together to Improve Health Care
Click to access 2000776-Payment-Methods-How-They-Work.pdf
AB O U T T H E U R BA N I N S T I T U TE: The nonprofit Urban Institute is dedicated to elevating the debate on social and economic policy. For nearly five decades, Urban scholars have conducted research and offered evidence-based solutions that improve lives and strengthen communities across a rapidly urbanizing world. Their objective research helps expand opportunities for all, reduce hardship among the most vulnerable, and strengthen the effectiveness of the public sector.
ST A T E M E N T O F IN D E P E N D E N C E: The Urban Institute strives to meet the highest standards of integrity and quality in its research and analyses and in the evidence-based policy recommendations offered by its researchers and experts. We believe that operating consistent with the values of independence, rigor, and transparency is essential to maintaining those standards. As an organization, the Urban Institute does not take positions on issues, but it does empower and support its experts in sharing their own evidence-based views and policy recommendations that have been shaped by scholarship. Funders do not determine our research findings or the insights and recommendations of our experts. Urban scholars and experts are expected to be objective and follow the evidence wherever it may lead.
How Small Ideas Are Helping to Bend the Health Care Cost Curve
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/04/10/How-Small-Ideas-Are-Helping-Bend-Health-Care-Cost-Curve
Even as overall U.S. health care spending grew by 5.3 percent in 2014 – reaching a jaw-dropping $3 trillion — the healthcare industry has made some important strides in trying to bend the overall cost curve in the coming years, according to some experts. Since the advent of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, for instance, the move away from so-called fee-for-service that maximizes costs for insurers and patients by encouraging excessive billings has begun to make some inroads in overall spending.
HENRY KOTULA 