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Massachusetts' decisive move to attack healthcare costs
By The Atlantic | August 07, 2012
Last week, Massachusetts took the next significant step in reforming its healthcare system: a bill that will save the state as much as $200 billion in the next 15 years. Monday, Governor Deval Patrick signed it into law, saying that Massachusetts has "cracked the code" on controlling healthcare...
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Massachusetts takes on health costs
By New York Times | August 06, 2012
Give Massachusetts credit for setting audacious healthcare goals. It took the lead in guaranteeing near-universal health insurance coverage for its residents, providing a template for the federal reforms to follow.
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University Hospitals: Cost-efficient leaders in care and research
By The Atlantic | June 06, 2012
Some have criticized academic medical centers—partnerships largely between medical schools and teaching hospitals where the focus is on research, education, and patient care—for being costly in relation to the product they deliver. A recent report tends to refute that.
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Healthcare needs accountable providers and informed patients
By The Atlantic | June 03, 2012
Most of the focus of the Affordable Care Act is on expanding insurance coverage and defining how insurance companies provide insurance to individual purchasers. These are important issues, but the real challenge for healthcare is to change the dynamics that have led to such unsustainable spending...
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Role models | Mass. safety net hospitals on cutting edge of reform implementation
By Kate Walsh | May 05, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Six years after Massachusetts' historic healthcare reform legislation, the state provides a window into healthcare reform for the rest of the states, even as the exact shape reform will take is under debate. Long a mecca of medicine, we are accustomed to attention of this sort, and our healthcare...
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Payment reform is working in Massachusetts
By Boston Globe | May 02, 2012
When it comes to health reform, many in our state are on a mission to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve both near-universal coverage and affordable high quality care.
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Then there were six—ACOs
April 20, 2012
Ten physician groups agreed in 2011 to extend their test of Medicare accountable care, which began in 2005, for another two years. Now, six remain.
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Putting ACO principles to work | Colorado Springs hospital offers coordinated care, incentives for employees
By Margaret Sabin | April 14, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
With healthcare reform approaching and economic challenges all around us, the landscape for healthcare providers is changing rapidly.
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No credit due | Lower spending increases are rooted in a bad economy
By Kenneth Raske and Bruce Vladeck | March 24, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
In response to pressures from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the private insurance market, most healthcare organizations are reorganizing and restructuring their clinical business models. And while not every provider seeks accountable care organization status, most expect to be...
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The many legal barriers standing in the way of healthcare reform
By The Atlantic | March 16, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
We are on the brink of a huge shift in how we think about, deliver, and pay for healthcare in America.
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