Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
June 12, 2015 · NCQA
Every Friday NCQA gives a rundown of some of the health care news stories from the past week. Here are some of our picks for this week:
- 31 million people in the United States were underinsured in 2014 due to high out-of-pocket costs. [The Commonwealth Fund]
- Rates of severe mental illness among children and teens dropped substantially as treatment rates rose. [The New England Journal of Medicine].
- Low-volume hospitals surprisingly have lower Medicare readmission rates. [Pub Med]
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services & Million Hearts® program will help beneficiaries ID & reduce their cardiovascular disease risk. [US Department of Health & Human Services]
- A new push ties the cost of drugs to how well they work. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Incentives for physician quality might not be paying off. [Modern Health Care]
- ASCO Proposes Payment Reforms to support higher quality and more affordable cancer care. [American Society of Clinical Oncology]
- Bringing doctors to patients who need them most. [Kaiser Health News]
- New Medicare data show what hospitals and doctors were paid. [Modern Healthcare]
- Study shows gap in key care coordination tasks, and the use of Health IT. [American Academy of Family Physicians]
- The impact of Health IT on electronic health record adoption. [Brookings]
- Training doctors to talk about vaccines fails to sway parents. [NPR]
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services opens its data to the private sector. [HealthData Management]
- New preventive health services approved for no-cost coverage. [Kaiser Health News]
- Fifty hospitals charge uninsured more than ten times the cost of care, study finds. [The Washington Post]
- Radiation risks in procedures prompt calls for solutions. [Modern Healthcare]
