Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
April 24, 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:
- In U.S., uninsured rate dips to 11.9 percent in first quarter. [Gallup]
- Elder care costs keep climbing; nursing home bill now $91 thousand. [Miami Herald]
- For mentally ill inmates, a cycle of jail and hospitals. [New York Times]
- ONC says providers and vendors need instruction in sharing electronic information. [Modern Health Care]
- Data holds key to unlocking population health. [Health IT News]
- President Barack Obama signs bipartisan legislation on how Medicare pays doctors. [Yahoo News]
- Cancer specialists examine future payment models to improve care and lower costs. [US News]
- Value-based reimbursement coming on strong while the fall of Fee For Service medicine accelerates. [Managed Care Magazine]
- The tangle of coordinated health care. [New York Times]
- Quantifying tests, instead of good care. [New York Times]
- The Quality Tower of Babel: health care needs meaningful measures. [Health Affairs]
- Top-performing hospital systems focus on improving all aspects of care. [Modern Health Care]
- Does medicine exaggerate need for office visits? [MedPage Today]
