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Finding their way home | Despite mixed evidence, providers increasingly look to medical homes for better care, cost savings

By Andis Robeznieks | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine

Many healthcare providers and payers are moving forward with patient-centered medical homes to improve primary care and care coordination and reduce costs, despite mixed research evidence of the cost-effectiveness of this major delivery system reform.
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Traffic jam | As millions head to exchange websites, government officials race to fix glitches

By Maureen McKinney | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine

After a glitch-plagued first week of enrollment on the state and federally run insurance exchanges, many observers are wondering whether more technical problems are still to come and whether consumers will keep doggedly trying to sign up for coverage.
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Private Medicaid option | Some states eye Ark. alternative expansion model

By Steven Ross Johnson | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine

The Obama administration's recent approval of Arkansas' alternative plan to expand healthcare coverage for low-income residents under the federal healthcare reform law bodes well for several Republican-led states looking to implement their own alternative...
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Ready or not | Exchange preparedness varies in GOP-led states

By Maureen McKinney | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine

State-based Republican opposition to implementation of the healthcare reform law forced federal officials to scramble over the past six months to design and launch far more local health insurance exchanges than originally anticipated.
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Media barrage | Conflicting ads may confuse public, affect enrollment

By Rachel Landen | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine

Healthcare reform supporters are using every available advertising and communications vehicle to urge Americans to sign up for health coverage on the new state insurance exchanges, while Obamacare opponents are...
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'It's long overdue' | Home-care agencies cheer, jeer rule as change nears

By Ashok Selvam | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine

Now that the Obama administration has delivered its long-awaited rule making home-care aides eligible for overtime pay and the federal minimum wage, employers who send out the aides must weigh the impact of a more even playing field.
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Counting the uncovered

September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine

New numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau last week are a reminder of the challenge ahead as the Obama administration works to realize the healthcare reform law's vision of significantly reducing the ranks of Americans without health insurance.
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Out of their comfort zone | Dialysis provider DaVita needs to integrate big physician practice to move toward integrated care

By Beth Kutscher | September 14, 2013 | Print Magazine

With its acquisition of multispecialty medical group HealthCare Partners, dialysis giant DaVita has ventured beyond the realm of kidneys toward serving the whole patient.
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'Fragmented' cancer care | System is 'chaotic, costly,' IOM report says

By Jaimy Lee and Steven Ross Johnson | September 14, 2013 | Print Magazine

In a critical report, the IOM said the nation's “increasingly chaotic and costly” cancer-care system is in crisis and fails to deliver consistent care.
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Inside Oregon's Medicaid lab | A year into Oregon's Medicaid experiment, everyone is watching to see if accountable care can curb Medicaid costs

By Joe Rojas-Burke | September 07, 2013 | Print Magazine

On a recent Wednesday morning, a hospital in Portland, Ore., paged Dr. Christina Milano, a family physician, to notify her that one of her patients was in the emergency room. Within a half-hour, another hospital called when the same patient showed up in its ER.
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