April 12, 2007 - In the first published nationwide survey of state Medicaid programs
on "pay-for-performance" practices, more than half of all programs state that they provide financial incentives to health care providers for better quality care.
March 19, 2007 - A new analysis of health reform bills in Congress prepared for the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System shows that many current Congressional health care proposals could significantly reduce the number of uninsured Americans and also decrease overall health care expenditures including those for insurance administration and prescription drugs.
March 6, 2007 - As states across the country contemplate health insurance coverage expansions and other changes to publicly funded programs, a new Commonwealth Fund study cautions states to pay critical attention to meeting the health needs of children.
February 1, 2007 - While it is encouraging that President Bush made health care a theme of this year's State of the Union address, his proposal to offer tax deductions to those who buy insurance would do little to cover the nation's nearly 47 million uninsured.
January 8, 2007 - Expanding coverage for the uninsured should be the top health care priority for the new Congress over the next five years, identified as "absolutely essential" or "very important" by 88 percent of respondents to the latest Commonwealth Fund Health Care Opinion Leaders survey.
January 4, 2007 - Chart Cart and Performance Snapshots are two online resources that offer access to rich collections of charts and, in the case of Snapshots, accompanying narratives. You can create your own chart collections by selecting charts to save, print, and share in PowerPoint (PPT) or Portable Document File (PDF) format.
December 7, 2006 - Press briefing page for second annual EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey, 2006.
December 7, 2006 - Americans have not yet warmed to consumer-driven health plans, a relatively new kind of coverage that offers reduced premiums but carries higher annual deductibles, according to a survey released today by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and The Commonwealth Fund.
November 30, 2006 - Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans were paid an average 12.4% more per enrollee in 2005 compared with what the same enrollees would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund.
November 14, 2006 - Despite intense health care cost pressures, firms covering more than 90 percent of the nation's workforce view health benefits as an important tool to attract and retain qualified workers, according to a national study by researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change and The Commonwealth Fund published in the November/December edition of Health Affairs.
November 2, 2006 - Materials and a webcast from the "2006 International Symposium on Health Care Policy: What Is a High Performance Health Care System and How Do We Get There?" event.
November 2, 2006 - Primary care doctors in the U.S. are less likely than those in several other countries to be able to offer patients access to care outside regular office hours or to have systems that alert doctors to potentially harmful drug interactions, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2006 International Health Policy Survey published today on the Web site of the journal Health Affairs.
September 28, 2006 - In a new statement, Fund President Karen Davis observes that the NCQA's 2006 State of Health Care Quality report underscores several important themes described in the Fund's Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, including the need to learn from high performers in the health system.
September 20, 2006 - Press briefing agenda and materials.
September 20, 2006 - A new report from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System paints a disturbing picture of a health care system that does not achieve top marks in any single assessed health care category.