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March 27, 2018 | AAFP News
March 27, 2018 02:42 pm News Staff – The budget bill that Congress passed and President Trump signed March 23 as the clock ran down on federal funding supports important primary care initiatives, but leaves one important patient need...
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March 26, 2018
Congress intended to legislate a “permanent” doc fix as part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). However, substantial questions have been raised about the original design and long term sustainability of the...
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March 21, 2018
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Wednesday it is "extremely disappointing" that a bill she backed to stabilize ObamaCare markets was left out of a must-pass government funding bill.  
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March 21, 2018
For the second consecutive year, total payments to care for individuals living with Alzheimer’s or other dementias will surpass a quarter of a trillion dollars ($277 billion), which includes an increase of nearly $20 billion from last year...
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March 20, 2018 | AAFP News & Journals
The Academy is launching a bold new research initiative to protect children from firearm injuries. Approaching these injuries as a public health epidemic, the Gun Safety and Injury Prevention Research Initiative will bring together...
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March 20, 2018
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), have requested a bipartisan dialogue with Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on continuing progress in reforming the way Americans pay for and are...
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March 19, 2018 | American Association of Nurse Practitioners
Today, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) released new data showing that more than 248,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) are currently licensed to practice in the United States.  This number has seen a substantial...
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March 15, 2018 | Healthcare Finance
Amazon expanded into the Medicaid market by announcing that it will offer beneficiaries a Prime membership of $5.99 a month, a discount of 54 percent. And while that revelation last week may not have raised quite as many eyebrows as the...
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March 14, 2018
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) released its analysis of 2016 health spending for a group of commercial insurers last month. The report is a trove of information that, like all good analyses, suggests more questions than it answers....
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March 14, 2018
Healthcare utilization and spending over the short term increased when low-income, less healthy patients gained access to primary care, according to new research. Lower-income individuals who do not have employer-sponsored health...
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March 13, 2018 | Washington Post
A sweeping new study of health-care expenditures found that the United States spends almost twice as much on health care as 10 other wealthy countries, a difference driven by high prices — including doctors' and nurses' salaries, hospital...
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March 12, 2018
Dear Speaker Ryan, Leader McCarthy, Leader Pelosi, Senator McConnell and Senator Schumer:  We write to urge rapid, bipartisan action to stabilize the nation’s health insurance markets and prevent cost increases for American families. The...
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March 9, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
As President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans tirelessly try to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, a number of states are scrambling to enact laws that safeguard its central provisions. The GOP tax plan approved by Congress in...
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March 6, 2018 | Fierce Healthcare
HHS Secretary Alex Azar outlined four priorities for the agency this week, and accelerating the path to value-based payment systems and reducing healthcare costs are at the top of his list. In remarks given to the Federation of American...
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March 6, 2018 | Vox
Some of the biggest and most famous brands in America are making big bets on health care. The blue chips of Silicon Valley — Amazon, Apple, Google, Uber — have announced in the past few weeks they’re interested in disrupting an industry...
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March 5, 2018
Primary care physicians expressed little surprise at the findings of a recent Commonwealth Fund report that determined the United States spends more than any other high-income country on healthcare, yet it has the widest gaps in the...
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March 5, 2018 | PCDC
PCDC is among several leading organizations urging New York State elected officials to oppose a $20 million reduction to Patient-Centered Medical Home incentive payments.
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March 5, 2018 | Healthcare IT News
LAS VEGAS – Improvements in data management will soon mean healthcare providers can engage patients outside of standard care more than ever before, Judy Murphy, chief nursing officer at IBM, said Monday at HIMSS 2018 in Las Vegas.  “We’re...
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March 1, 2018 | Quartz
Investment in primary care results in savings in overall health care spending. This has been empirically proven in the state of Oregon. Current innovation in Oregon provides a real world example that can be studied by policy makers,...
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February 28, 2018 | The Milbank Memorial Fund
How much of our health care dollars actually go toward supporting primary care, which is consistently acknowledged to be key to improving population health?  Some states are working toward an answer. “At the Fund, we are working to...
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