Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
October 16, 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:
- Work wellness programs put employee privacy at risk. [CNN]
- What is the glitch in the road to pay for performance? [Health Affairs]
- MACRA: New opportunities for Medicare providers through innovative payment systems. [Health Affairs]
- Behavioral health at heart of recommended Medicaid measures from national quality forum. [AJMC]
- The percentage who say America spends too little on health dropped since ACA. [Washington Post]
- Average Medicare advantage premiums will drop $0.31 in 2016 with 65 percent of enrollees in 4+ star plans. [CMS]
- Pioneer ACOs cut spending by 4.5 percent on services deemed as low-value by choosing wisely. [JAMA]
- More evidence links inactivity to diabetes and heart disease. [Fox]
- IOM wants increased focus on diagnostic errors that are causing 10 percent of deaths. [National Academies]
- United Healthcare is testing whether paying to house the homeless can cut health costs. [Texas Tribune]
- Kaiser Permanente health care workers ratify deal that includes a flu vaccination policy. [Chico ER]
- U.S. to give almost $700 million in grants to improve patient care. [Wall Street Journal]
- For narrow networks, fresh scrutiny: can they pass the adequacy test? [Managed Care Academy]
- How the university of Texas is reinventing med school from the ground up. [Fast Company]
