Showing posts with label Affordable Care Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Affordable Care Act. Show all posts
Thursday, December 19, 2013

All in the balance: Nurse practitioners are ready to help meet baby boomers’ growing needs. #nurseup #aprn #healthcare

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All in the balance: Nurse practitioners are ready to help meet baby boomers’ growing needs:"As they grow older, about 70 million baby b...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

In Colorado, Health Care Law Creates Nurse-Run Clinic | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS

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In a low-income suburb of Denver, Erica Schwartz and her small staff of advanced practice nurses have set up their own primary care facilit...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Action For Better Healthcare » Finally a roadmap for a coordinated approach to patient care

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released their long anticipated regulations dealing with ten pages of the 2,200-page March 2010...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Patients Are Not Consumers - NYTimes.com

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Earlier this week, The Times reported on Congressional backlash against the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key part of efforts to r...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Supreme Court punts on fast-track review of healthcare law - The Hill's Healthwatch

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By Julian Pecquet - 04/18/11 10:36 AM ET T...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Home Page - National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities

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Learn About the NPA → The Mission → The Goals → Social Determinants Get Involved → Become a Partner → Find an OMH ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Autism Diagnoses Still More Likely in Richer Neighborhoods - Yahoo! News

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Poor children with autism are less likely than richer kids to have the condition diagnosed, but this disparity has decreased in recent ...

Accountable Care Organizations: Improving Care Coordination for People with Medicare | HealthCare.gov

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The Affordable Care Act includes a number of policies to help physicians, hospitals, and other caregivers improve the safety and quality of...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Rand: High-deductible health plans produce good and bad outcomes | Healthcare Finance News

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A new study by the Rand Corporation indicates people on high-deductible health plans significantly reduce their healthcare spending – but t...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Nurse practitioners are charting a new course - Roanoke.com

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A turf war with potential economic, political and health care consequences is under way in Virginia. It has been gaining momentum for yea...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Medical News: FDA Sets Rules for Vending Machine Calorie Info - in Public Health & Policy, Public Health from MedPage Today

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Chain restaurants, vending machines, and convenience stores would all have to prominently display the calorie counts of their foods under t...
Friday, April 1, 2011

AHRQ Reports Declines in Diabetes Care - HealthLeaders Media

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Care for people with diabetes, who are at higher risk for disease-related blindness, limb amputations and kidney failure, has been getting ...

Cuts Leave Patients With Medicaid Cards, but No Specialist to See - NYTimes.com

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Eight-year-old Draven Smith was expelled from school last year for disruptive behavior, and he is being expelled again this year. But his m...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Poll: Americans Are (Still) Confused About Health-Care Overhaul Law - Health Blog - WSJ

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More than half of Americans say they don’t fully understand the health-care overhaul law, according to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Health Care and You

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The Affordable Care Act – One Year Later We’ve seen some changes in health care over the past... GAO report shows succ...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Dems To GOP: Show Us Your Health Insurance : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

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With Republicans on Capitol Hill still trying every legislative manuever they can think of to undo last year's health law, it was prob...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Governors: Medicaid More A Budget Buster Than Ever : NPR

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The federal government and the states have shared the cost of Medicaid, the health insurance program for some 60 million low-income America...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Medicaid chief: Single payer may be better than ‘devil-may-be’ market

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A senior Patrick administration health care official said Friday that a single payer system may work more effectively and efficiently than...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

GOP Counts The Ways To Defund Health Law : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

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Did House Republicans keep their promise to defund the health care overhaul as part of their bill to cut more than $60 billion from the fe...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Obama administration asks states to cut costs without dropping Medicaid coverage

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By Marilyn Werber Serafini Kaiser Health News Tuesday, February 22, 2011; 12:58 PM The Obama administration is deploying squa...