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Health Policy
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Facing growing health care costs, Mass. tries containment #ahcj13
Massachusetts is famously ahead of other states when it comes to health insurance coverage. Ninety-eight percent of Bay State residents…
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Timeline shows upcoming developments in exchanges
As many of you know, Gary Cohen, the head of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (the HHS…
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Consolidation, collections and coding: Covering the business side of hospitals #ahcj13
The “Rich Hospital, Poor Hospital” panel at Health Journalism 2013 broke down the hospital industry into a discussion about the…
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Hospitals struggle to find ways to reduce avoidable readmissions #ahcj13
About one in five Medicare patients hospitalized for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia will be back in the hospital…
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Journalists should expect a rocky implementation of exchanges #ahcj13
With less than 10 months until uninsured consumers can buy health coverage via online marketplaces known as exchanges, journalists should…
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Writing about co-ops: A taste of the complexity
I wrote about co-ops as an undercovered Health Policy topic last month and provided some resources about how to cover…
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Premium shock: The story isn’t as simple as it seems
You’ve seen lots of stories – and you may well have written some – about how much the cost of…
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Insurance co-ops faded from view but still ripe for analysis
Former AHCJ president Trudy Lieberman, in a CJR “Second Opinion” post, recently pointed out a story that was largely untold–…
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Project addresses readmission concerns by focusing on the frail
A new project is addressing the special concerns of frail elderly hospital patients in an attempt to help prevent lengthy…
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‘The insured and the unsure:’ What will businesses do?
I clicked on an Economist story on the future of employer-sponsored health insurance to get a sense of what picture…