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States Act on Their Own to Fill Holes Washington Is Knocking in Affordable Care Act
The first Sunday after his inauguration, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order directing state agencies to report everything they could do to ramp up the visibility of the Affordable Care Act and persuade more people to buy health cover…
Senate Pushes for Stronger Drug-Pricing Policy Than Trump Proposal
Members of the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday called on the Trump administration to use stronger tactics to curb high drug prices than its tempered strategy unveiled last month. In its first hearing on the White House’s drug pricing blueprint, law…
Creating Incentives for High-Value Care
Transforming Care asked Harold D. Miller and Jeffrey Bailet, M.D., about their work as members of the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, created under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 to evaluate physi…
Publications of Note: March–June 2018
Selected publications from the professional literature explore alternative payment models, home food delivery programs reducing inpatient admissions, and more.
Join a Webinar: Investing in Social Services as a Core Strategy for Healthcare Organizations — Developing the Business Case
Join a July 12 webinar from 2 pm to 3 pm, E.T., to hear from KPMG and the Commonwealth Fund about a new guide to help health care organizations develop the business case for investing in social service and obtain measurable returns on investment.
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Meeting the Needs of the Sickest Patients
In the journal Academic Medicine, the Commonwealth Fund’s David Blumenthal, M.D., Douglas McCarthy, and Tanya Shah issue a call to action for academic medical centers to “accelerate the path to improving care for the country’s sickest and most expensiv…
The Year in Numbers: The Commonwealth Fund Annual Report
2017 is a prime number, but that’s certainly not the only thing that made last year unique. Read the Commonwealth Fund’s new annual report, “The Year in Numbers,” for highlights from our recent work. Also read Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenth…
Fixing the Drug Development Process
Pharmaceutical companies argue that high prices are necessary to support innovation. Yet Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal, M.D., in a new Experts blog in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), says this justification raises other …
Unintended Results: 1115 Waiver Alternatives to Traditional Medicaid Expansion
In a Commonwealth Fund-supported study in Health Affairs, Benjamin Sommers, M.D., and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health surveyed low-income adults in three Midwestern states with different Medicaid policies: Indiana, which us…
