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Category Archives: Healthcare Cost Control
Breaking: Procedural Progress on Payment Reform – Senate Debate Expected Mid-May (UPDATE From Sen. Moore)
Today the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing discharged the Governor’s payment reform bill, and the bill was assigned to the Senate Ways and Means Committee. This is the procedural step for the Senate to go first on its version … Continue reading
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Globe Letters Look Towards Effective Payment Reform and Cost Control
Last week the Globe editorialized for a go-slow approach to a state regulatory role in payment reform. The editorial did recommend a number of our priorities, supporting “promoting accountable care, furthering transparency, highlighting effective practices, increasing consumer knowledge and incentives, … Continue reading
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A Quartet of Opinions on Mass Payment Reform
Today Kaiser Health News published a quartet of opinion on payment reform in Massachusetts. The pieces are by Governor Patrick, HCFA’s Paul Williams, Mass Hospital Association head Lynn Nicholas, and Dr. Lynda Young of the Mass Medical Society. The introduction … Continue reading
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Channel 5′s Dr. Tim: Payment Reform May Be National Model
All this week Boston’s channel 5 is doing a series tied to the 6th anniversary of Chapter 58, the Massachusetts health reform law. [By the way – Governor Patrick will be hosting a commemoration on Wednesday, April 11, at 12:30 … Continue reading
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I CAN HAS PAYMENT REFORM?
If you liked the meme-graphic below, you’ll love this. (Click! – guaranteed not a Rick Roll or a FAIL)
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Stay Healthy, My Friends – Join us Thursday at State House
The most interesting advocates in the world are gathering together at the State House to call for meaningful investment in public health and prevention as a part of payment reform. Civic leaders from around the state are coming and we’re … Continue reading
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Payment Reform and Better Health – Conference Thursday
The MA Health Data Consortium is holding an event on Thursday, April 12, titled “Payment Reform: Achieving the Three-Part Aim?” Learn more on the MAHDC website. The three-part aim is the goals of better care for individuals, better health for … Continue reading
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Mayor Menino: Health care vs. sick care: Why prevention is essential to payment reform
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Boston Public Health Commission board chair Dr. Paula Johnson have long been stalwart champions of public health. In a new Boston Globe online op-ed, they lay out the case for substantial, sustained investment in prevention. … Continue reading
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Meet Mary Flynn from Brewster
I want you all to meet Mary Flynn from Brewster, Massachusetts. Awhile back, she called our HelpLine because she was having problems with COBRA and needed health insurance. As the Supreme Court takes a closer look at Massachusetts’s health reform, … Continue reading
Boston Globe on Children’s Hospital Boston Asthma Program: Two Implications for Legislation
Yesterday’s lead Kay Lazar story in the Globe, Children’s Hospital reports progress on asthma: Program cuts costs, trips to ER (paywalled, of course), is evidence of exactly why we need comprehensive reform of how health care is paid for in … Continue reading
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