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7 Jan 2012, 8:57 am by Hal Singer
Although expanding health insurance coverage is a worthy goal, bringing more folks into the health care system could result in higher prices for health care services. [read post]
26 Jul 2016, 4:25 am by Howard Friedman
We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion—regardless of where she lives, how much money she makes, or how she is insured.We believe that reproductive health is core to women’s, men’s, and young people’s health and wellbeing. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 2:35 pm
An Associated Press review of the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ranking system found that Massachusetts nursing homes located in the state's more affluent areas tended to receive higher ratings for quality than their counterparts in poorer counties.The ranking system rates some 16,000 nursing homes in the United States for quality of care, staffing levels, and health inspection results. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 3:49 pm
  The health-care law also provides substantial funding for CER. [read post]
17 Jul 2010, 12:34 pm by Ray Mullman
“The Affordable Care Act seeks to lower health care costs, improve the quality of health care and, perhaps most importantly, give people more control over their own care. [read post]
15 Aug 2009, 7:40 am
President Obama will be in Grand Junction, CO today to talk about the health care reform bill. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 7:56 am by Holly Hayes
  It seeks “to improve health care quality, accountability, and cost containment in this state by encouraging health care provider collaboration, effective health care delivery models, and coordination of health care services. [read post]
23 Jun 2008, 3:54 am
Some stuff I know about health care, I think, via David Dranove : Most reliable indicator of surgeon skill: number of surgeries performed. [read post]
20 Sep 2012, 12:31 pm by Stephen Bilkis
They are advocating that other citizens should be entitled to the same high quality care that the congresswoman is receiving in her recovery from a January shooting. [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 3:32 am by Jonathan Rosenfeld
 Illinois' Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act (210 ILCS 55) ensures that people who receive home health services, home nursing services and in-home support services at their residence are granted consumer protection and quality care. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 3:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Hospitals, physicians, health plans and others participating in credentialing and peer review activities need to use care to ensure that they and others involved in these matters understand and comply with the confidentiality requirements of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act and similar state laws. [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 8:03 am by Debra A. McCurdy
The publication provides information on national health care and Medicare spending and utilization, Medicare and dual-eligible beneficiary demographics, Medicare quality, Medicare beneficiary and other payer liability, and related issues. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 10:00 am by Jon L. Gelman
"This will bring costs down and give insurance companies the incentive to focus on what matters for patients – high quality health care. [read post]
28 Feb 2015, 12:35 am by Jon Gelman
—Based on publicly available information, there is scant evidence to back up claims by large, nonprofit integrated health systems that they deliver higher quality care more efficiently, according to a new study released today from the nonpartisan National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI). [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 6:29 am by Richmond Cariaga
Poor foot health can lead to debilitating conditions that can negatively impact quality of life. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 7:44 am by Hunton & Williams LLP
  PCORI will disseminate research on evidence based medicine and the clinical effectiveness of medical care to improve the quality and treatment of illness or injury. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 2:32 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
  The call will cover: Legislative requirements of the IMPACT Act related to the use of standardized data, quality measures, and resource use and other measures for skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, and home health agencies; Participation in the quality measure and assessment instrument development process; and Opportunities for stakeholder engagement and input. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 5:36 am by Debra A. McCurdy
CMS is hosting calls on Medicare payment, quality, and coding topics; the FTC and DOJ are holding a workshop on health care competition; FDA is holding a workshop on regulation of next generation sequencing diagnostic tests; and CMS is holding a meeting on hospital outpatient payment policy. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 12:23 pm
Consumer Health Day wrote last month about the unreliable use of patient death rates as a measure of the quality of a hospital. [read post]