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How Policy Makers Can Act Now To Prevent An Avian Influenza Pandemic
It is not inevitable that H5N1 will develop into a pandemic -- if we act now. Unfortunately, instead of urgent action, we ...
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Improvement Science And Value-Based Payment Models
CMMI can encourage the spread of better practices by launching cycles of testing and learning that seek to evaluate temporary ...
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Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits: Origins, Evolution, And Issues For Policy Making
When it comes to financing, measuring, and coordinating supplemental Medicare benefits, there are significant challenges to ...
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Promoting Resilience Through The Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices
The U.S. vaccine policy landscape is broader and changing more rapidly than at any point in its modern history, and those ...
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The Promise And Pitfalls Of Site-Neutral Payments In Medicare
Site-neutral payments in Medicare have emerged as a potential policy option to reduce Medicare spending without impacting ...
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Health Centers Are Uniquely Positioned To Facilitate Harm Reduction’s Integration Into Primary Care
Primary health care has particularly struggled to address the needs of PWUD. Primary care’s promise of increased provider ...
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What Medicare Negotiation Tells Us About Drug Pricing In The U.S.
Results from Medicare’s first year of negotiation with other price benchmarks shed light on the competitive dynamics and ...
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A Core Measure Set For Age-Friendly Health Care Delivery
One way to begin addressing unmet needs among vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries is to identify a core measure set that uses ...
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The Rise Of Health Care Consolidation And What To Do About It
The rise in consolidation and private-equity investment in health care markets have increased prices and reduced ...
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Strengthening Primary Care Reimbursement Models To Improve Medicare’s Outcomes And Efficiency
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis ...
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Switching To Reduced-Sodium Salt Can Save Lives
Reduced-sodium salts look, work, and taste just like regular salt. So why hasn’t a global salt-switch happened?
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Medicare Part B Clinician Payment Programs And The Growing Costs Of Administrative Complexity
The number and complexity of clinician payment models in Medicare Part B has grown substantially without yielding the ...