July 28, 2009 - Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom all have set up agencies to ensure that their investments in health care, including medications, treatments, and new medical technologies, are yielding ‘value for money’ and to assist health care providers in improving their clinical practice.
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July 24, 1997 - Lack of insurance and lower incomes for minority adults create significant financial barriers to care, according to this 1997 survey of minority health care.
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November 1, 2002 - In this 2002 book, Don Berwick, M.D., the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, outlines the problems with the health care system--medical errors, confusing and inconsistent information, and a lack of personal attention and continuity in care--and then sketches an ambitious program for reform.
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February 2, 1999 - Nonprofit organizations play a major social, cultural, and economic role in American life, and in recent years have assumed increasing responsibility for maintaining society's safety net in an era of constrained government budgets. At the same time, periodic failures—even scandals—involving nonprofit management have drawn attention to the need for stronger internal mechanisms to assure the accountability and performance of these organizations.
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June 15, 1998 - The home health benefit has been one of the fastest-growing components of the Medicare program over the past decade.
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December 20, 2004 - International concerns about primary care are the focus of the lead story in the new Commonwealth Fund Quarterly, our roundup of Fund-supported research. Other articles address the health insurance divide between low- and higher-wage workers; a new survey on physician IT use; and an interview with Simon Stevens, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's former health policy advisor, who talks about the ambitious reforms under way at the NHS.
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April 1, 2011 - On October 20, 2011, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the final rule for implementing the new Medicare Shared Savings Program. This paper provides a detailed summary of the final rule.
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May 1, 1998 - Published collaboratively by three national organizations—Families and Work Institute, KIDSNET, and The Commonwealth Fund—this guide offers reviews of more than 50 parenting videos chosen by child development experts.
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February 15, 2006 - In his Executive Vice President-COO's report in the 2005 Annual Report, John Craig reviews why foundations should assemble an array of methods that allow them to examine their own performance and that of their grantees, make improvements based on lessons learned, and report findings to their various audiences.
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February 2, 2003 - President's Message from 2002 Annual Report
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February 1, 2001 - Since 1992, through a selective and labor intensive process, the Fund has commissioned independent reviews of 56 projects and 14 larger programs, or approximately one-fourth of the large projects it funds annually.
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August 31, 2004 -
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March 1, 2000 - President's Message from 1999 Annual Report
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July 15, 2004 - Black and Hispanic New Yorkers, as well as poor residents regardless of race or ethnicity, are more likely than whites to have diabetes, HIV, and other diseases, and are at greater risk of dying prematurely, according to a new Commonwealth Fund-supported report from the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
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January 1, 1998 - President's Message from 1997 Annual Report
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