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Smoke and Mirrors No Solution to Rising Health Costs

Last week, the New York State Legislature passed a bill granting the superintendent of insurance authority to ...
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Bringing Comparison Shopping to the Doctor’s Office

A start-up group, Castlight Health, as begun to offer a search engine that allows patients to comparison-shop for ...
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Many Outpatient Surgery Centers Fail to Protect Patients from Infections

Inspections of 70 ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) in three states found that two-thirds had at least one significant ...
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Obstacles to Population Health Policy: Is Anyone Accountable?

Certain barriers exist in improving our nation’s population health that make it hard to hold anyone accountable. ...
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When Incentive Payments to Doctors End, Quality of Medical Care Declines

  A British Medical Journal study published Wednesday shows that taking away targeted incentive payments to doctors causes a decline in ...
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Innovation Health Care Funds Will Be Under Extensive Scrutiny

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) warns that Congress will be closely monitoring funds marked for innovation ...
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ACHP Supports NCQA Call for More Quality Measurement and Reporting in Report

The Alliance of Community Health Plans commended the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for calling attention to the continuing challenge of improving health care ...
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