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Webcast: Under value-based insurance design, would insurers pay members for high-value services?
Here’s the bare-minimum definition of value-based insurance design: Those who are the most ill should pay the least for treatment.…
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Clearing up confusion about ”˜dual eligibles’
Liz Seegert Dual eligibles are low-income elderly or disabled people jointly enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. The distinctions are sometimes…
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Searchable hospital data now includes June inspections
AHCJ just added 3,522 detailed records of hospital deficiencies on its HospitalInspections.org website. The latest addition includes inspections into June.…
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Six (or more) things to remember when reporting on health care costs
Health care costs lack transparency and are wildly variable, not just from region to region but sometimes from block to…
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Fraud, marketing just part of problems with hospice system
A Huffington Post exposé in June, “Hospice, Inc.,” rekindled some thoughts I’ve long had about the split personality of the…
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Six things to remember when reporting on health care costs
Health care costs lack transparency and are wildly variable, not just from region to region but sometimes from block to…
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Missing context in reports on diabetic amputations
People with diabetes in the lowest income neighborhoods of California were 10 times more likely to lose lower extremities to…
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Is your community fighting tooth decay with school-based dental sealant programs?
Have you visited a school-based dental sealant program in your state or community? There may be a good story there.…
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Is your community fighting tooth decay with school-based dental sealant programs?
Have you visited a school-based dental sealant program in your state or community? There may be a good story there.…
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Editorial: No reason to artificially constrain supply of dental practitioners
In a recent editorial, The Washington Post endorsed the licensing of dental therapists to expand care to millions of Americans…
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