Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
July 17, 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:
- Study finds doctors order fewer preventive services for Medicaid patients. [Kaiser Health News]
- The Institute of Medicine wants a national strategy to standardize and improve cardiac arrest care. [The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine]
- Why patient-centered care matters. [Health Data Management]
- The Institute of Medicine says same-day appointments should be standard but are not due to failure to use NP & PAs. [The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine]
- How the Affordable Care Act is changing chronic care at hospitals. [Philly]
- 77% of those with Medicaid or Marketplace say easy to find a new primary care doctor. [The Commonwealth Fund]
- New Affordable Care Act enrollees in 2015 are healthier and spending less on drugs than 2014 enrollees. [The Hill]
- 21st Century Cures: What you need to know. [Energy & Commerce Committee]
- As payers merge, hospitals dream of their own health plans. [Health Leaders Media]
- With the merging of insurers, questions for patients arise over costs and innovation. [The New York Times]
- States are limiting patient costs for high-priced drugs. [Kaiser Health News]
- Childhood disease outbreaks have raised support for vaccines. [CBS News]
- Americans’ views of health care law have improved. [Gallup]
- Surveys are included among other tools used for assessing nursing quality. [Health Leaders Media]
