Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
September 18, 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:
- Do patients held for observation skew performance on quality measures? [Modern Healthcare]
- CMS boosts funding for initiative to improve care at nursing homes. [Modern Healthcare]
- Medicare ACOs improved quality in 2014, and 27 percent earned shared savings totaling 442,000,000 dollars. [CMS]
- How two Harvard grads want to change the face of health insurance. [Forbes]
- Study: Midlife obesity may spur risk for earlier Alzheimer’s. [News Hour]
- Heart-attack patients more likely to die after ambulances are diverted. [Kaiser Health News]
- How pre-visit planning saves time and helps the bottom line. [Med Page Today]
- Stethoscope shows the potential of digital technology to reinvent health care. [Washington Post]
- Will mandating ‘healthy happy meals’ solve childhood obesity? [Forbes]
- Fewer Americans skipping medical care for cost reasons. [Washington Post]
- Physician payment reform in a post-SGR world: Challenges remain. [Health Affairs]
- The potential of patient-centered specialty practice. [Physicians Practice]
- The percentage of community health centers able to serve as medical homes doubled between 2009 and 2013. [Commonwealth Fund]
- The uninsured rate is just 9.2 percent, down 7 million from 2014, and just 4.4 percent went without care due to cost. [The Centers for Disease Control]
