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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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With healthcare reform approaching and economic challenges all around us, the landscape for healthcare providers is changing rapidly.
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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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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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