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Value-based plans use disincentives, not denials
Michelle Andrews at Kaiser Health News is exploring value-based health insurance plans, a growing field that bases its reimbursement rates…
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Reporter uncovers $86 million from insurers to fight reform
The flow of money into politics in general, and Health Policy in particular, has been thoroughly opaque this election season,…
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Boomers line up for Medicare Part D plans
In a Morning Edition piece, NPR’s Kelley Weiss manages to hit all the highlights of this year’s Medicare Part D…
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New EHR error-reporting system to keep data confidential
EHRevent.org, a service that will allow health workers to report and track errors associated with electronic health records, has launched…
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Quest for profit behind patient safety problems in Las Vegas hospitals
Marshall Allen, of the Las Vegas Sun, continues his look at patient safety in Las Vegas hospitals and has been…
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St. Louis reporters find felons practicing medicine
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s Blythe Bernhard and Jeremy Kohler tell the story of an ophthalmologist to show how a convicted…
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…
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Lieberman: Election is evidence media got reform coverage wrong
In her column on CJRorg, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman writes that this week’s elections showed just how thoroughly…
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Video, presentations from comparative effectiveness conference available online
Earlier this month, ECRI’s 17th annual conference tackled the thorniest detail of comparative effectiveness research, namely that it’s rarely a…
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Days numbered for UK’s arbiter of comparative effectiveness
While comparative effectiveness research in the United States is booming thanks to the stimulus, a United Kingdom bastion of the…