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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Week of Numbers VI – Insurance Up, Pool Down
Our last number for the week is $144.8 million. That’s how much in hospital costs were billed to the Uncompensated Care Pool for October-December 2006, according to the latest report just issued by the Division of Health Care Finance and … Continue reading
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MassHealth, Commonwealth Care and Commonwealth Choice Enrollment Outreach Grants
EOHHS has issued a Request for Responses (RFR) to solicit grant proposals from community and consumer-focused public and private nonprofit organizations to reach and enroll potentially eligible residents in MassHealth, Commonwealth Care and Commonwealth Choice. Details of this notification are … Continue reading
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Week of Numbers V – Is Blue the Gold standard?
Continuing our week of statistics on Massachusetts uninsured, today brings the release by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of what may be the gold standard for analysis of Bay State health coverage. The survey The report (13-page summary here; … Continue reading
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Week of Numbers IV – This time, you fill in the numbers
Sometime after the new year, we all will have to fill in some numbers on a new Massachusetts tax form – Form HC. The HC stands for Health Care, and it’s the enforcement mechanism for the individual mandate requirement that … Continue reading
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Week of Numbers III – Census Uninsured Estimates
Just as sure as August 28 follows August 27, so does the federal census uninsured estimate follow the preliminary release of the DHCFP state survey of the uninsured. The federal numbers get lots of attention, but as statistics they are … Continue reading
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Week of Numbers II — New HCFP Uninsured Estimates
This just out this afternoon from the EOHHS Division of Health Care Finance and Policy: HCFP SURVEY FINDS 40,000 DECREASE IN STATE’S UNINSURED BOSTON — Due to the ongoing successful implementaiton of health care reform, the number of Massachusetts residents … Continue reading
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Week of Numbers – I
This is numbers week for the Healthy Blog. Late August is when lots of statistics seem to issue forth from their bureaucratic hiding place. First up: 1,081,823. That’s the total MassHealth enrollment, as of June 30, 2007. For the first … Continue reading
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Health Care Under the Bleachers: CBS Covers MA Health Reform
CBS Evening News and Katie Couric covered MA health reform in a report on Friday. Nothing new here, just the national attention, for good and bad. The piece was done weeks ago; they held it until they had a good … Continue reading
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Never Overestimate the Intelligence of the American Public
Our humor category is growing by leaps and bounds. Kudos to Charley on the MTA at Blue Mass Group for catching this spicy tidbit from the Boston Globe’s Primary Source political blog: Likely Republican voters were asked how familiar they … Continue reading
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Dental Health, Medicaid, and SCHIP — New KFF Brief
The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured has released a fact sheet called: “Dental coverage and care for low-income children: The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP.” This paper provides a national view of children’s dental health and the solutions … Continue reading
