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May 15, 2013 | Issue Brief
Nurse practitioners can help meet the growing need for primary care, if state and federal policy-makers remove barriers that limit their ability to provide, and get paid for, a wider range of preventive services and acute care.
April 3, 2013 | Issue Brief
To spur more consumer choice in the insurance market, the Affordable Care Act created the Multi-State Plan Program to certify health insurance issuers to offer at least two plans in every state insurance exchange.
March 11, 2013 | Issue Brief
The Affordable Care Act's consumer operated and oriented plans, CO-OPs, are supposed to increase competition in the health insurance market. However, they face major challenges as they prepare for open enrollment in October, 2013.
January 31, 2013 | Issue Brief
More than a dozen states have chosen to forgo developing their own state-based health insurance exchanges in favor of a federal plan.
December 13, 2012 | Issue Brief
Eliminating waste in the health care system has become a major focal point in the effort to reduce health care costs. Waste has been broadly defined to many areas: unnecessary services, treatment of avoidable injuries and more.
November 15, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Affordable Care Act provides a third option, the Basic Health Program, for individuals who make too much to qualify for Medicaid and too little to purchase private health insurance through exchanges.
October 11, 2012 | Issue Brief
"Pay-for-performance" programs are supposed to replace traditional fee-for-service care under the Affordable Care Act. Yet studies show pay-for-performance programs have yielded mixed results.
September 27, 2012 | Issue Brief
The future of Medicaid expansion is less certain now that the high court has made it optional for states to participate.
September 13, 2012 | Issue Brief
Better coordination of patient transfers among care sites and within the community could save money and improve the quality of care.
August 30, 2012 | Issue Brief
Insurance market reforms under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are designed to increase the number of Americans with insurance—and to shed the current system in which health plans have an incentive to enroll healthier people while avoiding the sick. O ...