Commonwealth Fund Report: Young Adults Care, Know They Need Insurance

A new study by The Commonwealth Fund challenges the common notion that young adults are not interested in health insurance and says that of the 13.7 million people ages 19 to 25 who stayed on or enrolled in their parents’ plans in 2011, 6.6 million were able to do so because of the health care overhaul. Read more »

Medicare, Insurers Offer Financial Incentives for Better Primary Care Management

Federal Medicare officials are teaming up with other government and private insurers to provide financial incentives to primary care practices to better manage patient care. Read more »

Medicaid DSH Payment Cuts Could Add to Financial Woes of Safety-Net Hospitals

Cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments required by the health care law could leave safety-net facilities unable to pay for necessary modernizations in health care delivery, experts recently said. Read more »

ACO-Type Models Growing in Medicaid

For the past couple of years, health policymakers have been developing new ways of delivering care in Medicare, most notably accountable care organizations (ACOs). But less attention has been given to similar models that are a growing trend in Medicaid. Read more »

On Exchanges: Model Unveiled by States, Foundations

A model that states could use to create their own health insurance exchanges was unveiled last week by the states that took part in developing it, the Silicon Valley company that did the design, and the foundations that financed the project. Read more »

Competition in Part D: Is It All It's Cracked Up to Be?

A key question in the debate over whether Medicare should be redesigned based on the Part D prescription drug benefit is whether competition delivers savings. Read more »