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Implementation
"Early Innovators" Grant in Jeopardy in Oregon
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 - 9:40
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 09:15
Oregon would be the second state to drop out of the federal government's "Early Innovator" program for the development of insurance exchanges if its divided House of Representatives can't agree to accept federal grant money. A House committee will soon make a decision on whether to accept the money, which would go toward developing an IT infrastructure to offer the state's exchange online, according to The Oregonian.
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Would Some States Come Together to Form a Joint Insurance Exchange?
Monday, April 25th, 2011 - 9:17
Monday, April 25, 2011 - 09:01
A recent report by the Urban Institute, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides four potential reasons why states might choose to come together to form joint insurance exchanges. The idea of joint exchanges has not received much coverage, but the Affordable Care Act explicitly authorizes them.
The report gives four reasons why a joint exchange might make sense:
1. Sharing the administration costs and duties of the exchange could provide attractive economies of scale.
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Georgia Wants Compact With Other States To Buck Health Reform
Friday, April 22nd, 2011 - 9:32
Friday, April 22, 2011 - 09:10
Of the handful of states whose leaders publicly criticize health reform and are taking definitive steps to impede its implementation, Georgia has perhaps become the most interesting.
Like many Republican governors who oppose health reform, Georgia's Nathan Deal nevertheless thought it best for the state to move ahead on the creation of an exchange so that the federal government would not step in to run it in 2014. The state's Tea Party, however, wanted no part of that and Deal was forced to pull back on his plans.
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Oklahoma Reverses Course on Implementation, Early Innovator Program
Thursday, April 21st, 2011 - 9:32
Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 09:11
And then there were six. Oklahoma, under a new Republican governor and insurance commissioner, has decided it won't be participating in the federal "Early Innovator" program for state-developed health insurance exchanges.
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Independent Medicare Cost-Cutting Board Draws Ire From Congress
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 - 9:15
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 08:41
Many lawmakers from across the political spectrum don't accept the idea that an independent board should make decisions to pare Medicare, according to The New York Times.
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Stephen Stollmack
ALL THIS FUSS ABOUT CUTTING MEDICARE BUT NO ONE HAS TIME TO ASK BENEFICIARIES WHAT THEY THINK. IF IT WAS MY MONEY, I WOULD NOT SPEND $10,000 PER YEAR ON MEDICAL SERVICES BUT ONCE YOU WALK IN THE CLINIC OR HOSPITAL DOOR, YOU LOSE CONTROL OVER WHAT SERVICES YOU GET.
There needs to be a site for Medicare Beneficiaries to report or make suggestions for cost cutting.
Is there some site where cost-saving ideas like this are being discussed? I would rather have a rationally limited Medicare than no Medicare at all.
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Managing Care For People With Complex Needs Under Health Reform's Medicaid Expansion
Friday, April 15th, 2011 - 8:59
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 08:29
Under the expansion of Medicaid in health reform, an estimated 16 million people will gain insurance coverage. Many of these individuals will be childless adults with complex health needs, including chronic illness and mental health ailments.
Making health reform work will be about more than simply granting new individuals access to coverage. Those who manage health programs such as Medicaid will have to make sure the expanded program will have the capacity to deliver care in the most effective ways.
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CBO Director Elmendorf Presents Stark Challenges of Reducing Health Care Costs
Thursday, April 14th, 2011 - 9:20
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 08:22
Ever since the administration's quest for health reform began, the talk has been about "bending the cost curve." The phrase encapsulates the challenges that lay ahead in reducing the nation's rapidly increasing expenditures on health care.
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HHS Announces $1 Billion Patient Safety Initiative
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 - 11:54
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 11:30
The Department of Health and Human Services annouced today the Partnership for Patients, an effort to create public-private cooperation in reducing health care mistakes and promoting better transitions in care from acute settings in hospitals to nursing homes and home-based care settings.
The initiative will use up to $1 billion in funding from the health reform law.
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States to Receive Grants from Feds to Give Medicaid Patients Rewards for Good Health Decisions
Monday, April 11th, 2011 - 8:07
Monday, April 11, 2011 - 07:45
States will soon be submitting plans to the federal government to receive $100 million they can give to Medicaid patients to reward good health decisions, such as losing weight or taking smoking cessation classes, according to Kaiser Health News.
The program is an attempt to boost preventive measures and to avoid the development of costly diseases that account for large expenditures under the Medicaid program.
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Much of Health Reform Implementation Would Move Forward in a Government Shutdown
Friday, April 8th, 2011 - 9:57
Friday, April 8, 2011 - 09:36
The tough task of implementing health reform will largely move forward, even in a government shutdown, according to an HHS official and guidelines issued by the agency.
An HHS official told reporters that implementation will mostly move forward because it has already been authorized and funded by the Affordable Care Act.
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