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Delivery System Reform

A Look at Healthcare Reform Readiness for 2012

Infosys Public Services surveyed health plans and provider organizations about their thoughts on key imperatives for health reform readiness in 2012. The results are displayed [...]

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Two National Council Members Win CMS Health Care Innovation Grant for Integration Programs

This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the first 26 Health Care Innovation grants that have been awarded, including  to two National [...]

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Five Health Policy Battles and Trends to Watch in 2012

1. Medicare Physician Pay Fix: In the last hours of its 2011 session, Congress enacted a short-term deal that postponed for two months a scheduled [...]

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Videos Explain Issues in Long Term Care – and How the ACA Helps

What percentage of Americans will eventually need long-term care? Of these, how many will get care in nursing homes? How does the health reform law [...]

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Are Accountable Care Organizations a Fad, or the Future? New National Council Resource Helps You Find Out

On October 20, 2011, the federal government announced final rules providing guidance on how Accountable Care Organizations should be structured. These final rules could create [...]

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Access to Care Redesign: Live Webchat with Scott Lloyd of MTM Services

On Monday, November 27, the National Council is holding a webinar with Scott Lloyd, President of MTM Services, on “Improving Access to Care: Eliminate No [...]

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Back to School Healthcare Reform Webinar Series

It’s September 2011. If you want to ace those Healthcare Reform SATs for admission to new payment and delivery systems by 2014, you must start [...]

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Opportunities for Behavioral Health Agencies to Take Advantage of Health Reform

A new report from George Washington University outlines how state mental health and substance use agencies can take advantage of new opportunities under the Affordable Care Act. [...]

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Dr. Karen Davis on “Smarter Ways to Pay for Healthcare”

As the ongoing debate over reducing federal spending has shown us, health care spending will be a target of efforts to cut the federal deficit, [...]

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Community Care Organizations (ACOs for the Rest of Us)

With all the recent talk going on about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), how do safety net organizations fit in? Dale Jarvis of Dale Jarvis and [...]

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