New Initiative to Improve Care & Lower Cost
| April 12, 2011 | Posted by Kandis Driscoll under Blog |
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Today, ITUP staff joined CMS as they announced the launch of a new initiative, Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Cost. This public-private partnership aims to improve the quality, safety, and affordability of health care by making hospital care safer, more reliable, and less costly. Ultimately, the initiative sets out… more
UCLA Health Policy Center’s New Blog
| April 12, 2011 | Posted by ITUP under Blog |
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Today, UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research, the office that gives us analysis of the California Health Interview Survey and supplies California with the most accurate estimates of the insured and uninsured alike, launches its new blog, Health DATAbytes. We at ITUP drafted a guest blog for Health DATAbytes that… more
California Exchange Board to Meet Next Week
| April 11, 2011 | Posted by ITUP under Blog |
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JUST IN! The first meeting of Board the California Health Benefit Exchange is scheduled for next Wednesday, April 20th at 10:00 am in Sacramento. Here is the meeting agenda. And for more, check out the new CA Exchange website. more
Federal Budget Deal Includes Health Cuts
| April 11, 2011 | Posted by ITUP under Blog |
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Late last Friday night, on the verge of the first federal government shutdown in 15+ years, President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid, and Congressman John Boehner agreed to a budget for the rest of 2011. The agreement contains $38 billion less spending compared to last year’s budget. Thirty-four percent (34%) of… more
Health Care Crisis Hits Home
| April 7, 2011 | Posted by ITUP under Blog |
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I’ve recently befriended an amazing woman, Mona Motwani, a former civil rights attorney who is currently in the midst of a great struggle for her health and life. In late 2005, Mona started feeling sick with ambiguous symptoms and became so ill by the fall of 2007 that she could… more
Focus is Squarely on Budget Crisis… in DC
| April 5, 2011 | Posted by ITUP under Blog |
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For the past three months, attention in Sacramento has been affixed on the state’s $26.6 billion budget shortfall, the recently passed cuts that will shrink the deficit in half, Republican’s unwillingness to allow voters to decide on tax extensions, and the Governor’s deliberations on what to do next. Recently, however,… more
Promoting Reform Through Payment Restructuring
| April 5, 2011 | Posted by ITUP under Blog |
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As part of our Delivery System Reform Issue Workgroup, ITUP recently produced this white paper that discusses, among others, opportunities under health reform for California to achieve cost savings and improvement in care by imposing various, novel reforms and payment techniques in Medi-Cal, Medicare, Health Families and private insurance. Alternative… more
Unemployment Rate Hits 2-Year Low
| April 1, 2011 | Posted by Kiwon Yoo under Blog |
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The US Labor Department announced that March 2011 unemployment numbers dipped to 8.8% with the addition of 216,000 jobs, exceeding the expected 190,000. The unemployment rate in February was 8.9%, and the rate decreased by a full percentage point over the last four months, the sharpest drop since 1983. While… more
HHS Releases Long-Awaited ACO Rule
| April 1, 2011 | Posted by ITUP under Blog |
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Yesterday, the Department of Health & Human Services issued this proposed regulation for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), part of the ACA’s Medicare Shared Savings Program. An ACO generally is a group of health care professionals (ideally, in concert with a health plan) that receive and distribute payments, provide care coordination,… more
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