A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides a primer on the Medicare payment part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015.
ANALYSIS OF UNITEDHEALTH GROUP’S WITHDRAWAL FROM ACA EXCHANGES
LEARNING FROM THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY TO IMPROVE STUDENT RETENTION RATES
THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INTERPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND EDUCATION’S CALL FOR PROPOSALS
NAZARETH COLLEGE INTERPROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE
PARTICIPATION OF ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS IN POST-ACUTE CARE SERVICES
INDEPENDENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND CONNECTION IN OLDER AGE
SHIFTS IN PUBLIC OPINION ABOUT THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law in 2010, Americans have remained deeply divided in their overall assessments of the law and whether it should continue. A new study appearing in Health Affairs compared public opinion about the ACA between 2010 and 2014 and found a significant increase in appreciation for the tangible effects of the law in widening access to health insurance.
DISPARITIES IN ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
According to a Chartbook on Health Care for Blacks, which is part of the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reportdeveloped by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), blacks ranked lower than whites on 12 of 22 measures commonly used to evaluate access to health care in 2013.