Stop the Drop: Profiles of Innovative Medicaid Renewal Initiatives and Lessons for 2014 and Beyond
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there will be a new continuum of coverage options available beginning in 2014.
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Behavioral Health: Can Primary Care Help Meet the Growing Need?
Event Date:EventThe health reform law has specific provisions covering mental health and substance use conditions, as well as general provisions to benefit those in need of behavioral health services. While addressing unmet needs, the reform law provisions raise new challenges.
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Health Care Costs: The Role of Technology and Chronic Conditions
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and co-sponsors presented the second event in a three-part series of discussions on costs, the factors driving them up, and what (if anything) can be done about them. This briefing takes an in-depth look at two of the most often cited cost drivers - technology and chronic conditions.
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Shared Medical Decision Making: We’re in This Together
Event Date:EventIn recent years, awareness of the patient’s important role in managing his or her own care has been steadily growing—fed not only by such trends as the proliferation of health information on the internet and direct-to-consumer advertising, but also by the emerging science of patient-centered decision making.
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The Innovation Center: How Much Can It Improve Quality and Reduce Costs – and How Quickly?
Event Date:EventThe new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) seeks to test new health care payment and service delivery models that can potentially enhance quality of care for beneficiaries while reducing costs.
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What’s in There? The New Health Reform Law and Medicare
Event Date:EventAs part of an ongoing series to explore what is in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, this May 7 briefing sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation examines how the reform law affects Medicare.
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What’s in There? An Ask-the-Experts Overview of the Health Reform Law
Event Date:EventThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 are now law. But many people have questions about the new reforms. To answer questions about the major provisions of these two laws, the Alliance for Health Reform and The Commonwealth Fund sponsored an April 16 briefing.
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Integrating Care for Dual Eligibles: What Do Consumers Want?
Event Date:EventMany deficit reduction plans have recognized the need to improve care for the 9 million beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.
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Strengthening Medicaid with Health Information Technology: Are Providers & States Up to the Challenge?
Event Date:EventHealth care providers can receive Medicare and Medicaid payment incentives when they adopt electronic health records and demonstrate their "meaningful use." Additionally, states must establish a website by 2014 for Medicaid beneficiaries to electronically enroll and renew coverage.
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Public Reporting of Quality Outcomes: What’s the Best Path Forward?
Event Date:EventThe Affordable Care Act aims to promote higher quality care in part by rewarding – and eventually requiring – the reporting of certain quality measures. Previous efforts suggest that public reporting can add significant value.