Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
June 5, 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:
- Imminent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule could boost managed long-term care in Medicaid. [Modern Healthcare]
- New push ties cost of drugs to how well they work. [Wall Street Journal]
- States quietly consider Affordable Care Act exchange mergers. [The Hill]
- ‘Milestone’ Rules would limit profits, Score Quality for Medicaid Plans. [Kaiser Health Plans]
- Quest for Quality: Fred N. Pelzman, MD, ponders how quality of care could be better measured. [MedPage Today]
- ‘Show me the money’ not the right approach in preventive care. [Modern Healthcare]
- Calming dementia patients without powerful drugs. [Kaiser Health News]
- Hospital productivity grew faster after the Affordable Care Act’s passage. [New York Times]
- 75 percent of Americans say drug prices are too high. [Morning Consult]
- Study: Better patient care, lower hospital use in Patient-Centered Medical Home practices with financial incentives. [The Commonwealth Fund]
- The number of drugs in short supply rose 74 percent to 265 over the last 5 years. [Wall Street Journal]
