Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes

May 21, 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:

• White House moves to fix two key consumer complaints about health care law. [New York Times]
• CDC: Meaningful Use electronic clinical quality measures ‘invaluable’ for tracking public health. [Fierce EMR]
• As Medicare prepares to begin rating doctors, there’s confusion about how to define success. [Bloomberg]
• The split over linking Medicaid coverage to work requirements. [Wall Street Journal]
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Cutting insurance premiums to incentivize health screenings doesn’t violate federal disabilities laws. [USA Today]
• New model aims to control health costs with careful monitoring, personal attention. [Boston Globe]
• Radical approach to huge hospital bills: Set your own price. [Kaiser Health News]
• Overuse of psychiatric medications hotly debated in British Medical Association exchange. [Modern Healthcare]
• Why U.S. health insurance costs so much. [Bloomberg]
• Emerging heart failure strategies improve outcomes and reduce readmissions. [Modern Healthcare]