LegalNotes: Volume 1, Issue 2 - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
May 19, 2009 | Issue Brief
The second issue of LegalNotes addresses the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Federal Government
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The Difficult Job of Making Sure Federal Workers Get Equivalent Health Benefits
May 1, 2002 | Program Result
Health Systems Research conducted a conference to identify key questions involved in evaluating the effects of introducing parity in mental health services coverage and traditional medical care coverage for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
The Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule
September 5, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule on the Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet to qualify as meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs) and receive incentive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Bending the Curve: Person-Centered Health Care Reform
April 29, 2013 | Report
Experts recommend solutions for closing the gaps in quality and efficiency of health care.
Collection of Language Data and Services Provided by Health Plans
December 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article reports the results of three nationwide surveys of health plans regarding their efforts to improve the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services for their members
Trying Out a New Model of Caring for People with Dementia
April 11, 2012 | Program Result
The Alzheimer's Association and the National Chronic Care Consortium partnered to develop and demonstrate a model of integrated health care and supportive services for people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Morehouse School of Medicine Trained Health Disparities Clinical Scholars to Help Health Centers in Federal Health Disparities Collaborative Program
October 24, 2008 | Program Result
The National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine recruited and trained scholars to serve as teachers and advisers for health centers in the federal Health Disparities Collaboratives program.
Health Plan Competition for Medicaid Enrollees Based on Performance Does Not Improve Quality of Care
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Incentives to improve the quality of care provided in Medicaid managed care plans are increasingly common and take many forms. One is a pay-for-performance program that automatically assigns new enrollees to better-performing Medicaid plans in California.
A Comprehensive Framework for Hospital Care Performance Evaluation
January 1, 2003 | Report
The United States spends $450 billion per year on hospital care, but there is very little public information available on hospital quality. Recent efforts to expand quality measurement and reporting have increased, but this raises concerns related t ...
Improving the Quality and Value of Health Care Forum
November 16, 2009 | Video
The Bipartisan Policy Center convened a special forum in Washington, D.C., as part of the Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care.