August 23, 2012 - In a new blog post, The Commonwealth Fund's Karen Davis and Kristof Stremikis say that states that choose not to participate in the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion not only place the health and well-being of their citizens at risk, but they forgo an important opportunity to strengthen their local health care delivery systems.
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August 15, 2012 - The health professionals who care for people with Medicaid coverage are struggling to deliver high-quality, efficient care to their most vulnerable patients. This post highlights several states that are developing accountable care organizations (ACOs) for their Medicaid populations to both improve care and control costs.
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July 24, 2012 - In a new blog post, Karen Davis and Kristof Stremikis suggest that "it may be desirable to open up Medicare to people buying insurance through the state exchanges, especially to older adults."
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June 28, 2012 - Today, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. This decision allows state and federal policymakers across the country to move forward in their work implementing the provisions of the law. Over the next decade, 32 million previously uninsured people will gain affordable and comprehensive health insurance coverage as a result of the law.
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June 27, 2012 - The U.S. health system is in a period of transformation. This blog post looks at international innovations in health care that offer lessons for U.S. policymakers and providers.
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June 12, 2012 - In a new blog post, Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis says policymakers looking for savings should "go where the money is," and focus on improving care for patients with multiple, high-cost conditions.
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May 24, 2012 - The Department of Health and Human Services recently released long-awaited proposed regulations for implementing the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid primary care rate increase. This post provides takeaways from the proposed rule and suggestions for implementation.
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May 18, 2012 - There is an urgent need for rigorous data to strengthen the evidence base of the medical home model. In an effort to harness and share lessons from the many disparate medical home pilots and evaluations under way, The Commonwealth Fund established the Patient-Centered Medical Home Evaluators’ Collaborative in 2009.
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May 09, 2012 - Last September, the AARP Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund, and The SCAN Foundation released the first-ever State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS). A new set of case studies provides insights into why certain states ranked high, low, or somewhere in between.
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April 19, 2012 - People who have gaps in insurance coverage struggle to regain coverage quickly, according to a new brief based on the 2011 Commonwealth Fund Insurance Tracking Survey.
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April 12, 2012 - The goals of accountable care—supporting providers' efforts to work together to achieve better care, better health, and lower costs—are compelling. But translating principles into practice requires learning. Elliott Fisher and Stephen Shortell explore the challenges in learning from ACOs' early experiences.
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April 12, 2012 - The Commonwealth Fund offers a number of resources to learn about how several of the Pioneer ACOs went about implementing patient-centered coordinated care for their patient population.
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March 23, 2012 - In a new blog post, Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis offers a few reminders of why the United States so urgently needs the Affordable Care Act.
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March 19, 2012 - The Commonwealth Fund's Anne-Marie Audet argues that public reporting programs such as Hospital Compare have a vital role to play in spurring and monitoring quality improvement at the system and physician levels.
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March 14, 2012 - The latest report in a series of Commonwealth Fund scorecards that highlight stark differences in health care across the country ranks 306 communities on 43 measures of health system performance.
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