Sep 2024 Can doulas help with our maternal health crisis? Promises and obstacles to impact By Phiona Nabagereka and Lilian Zhang Digital , This post, by a high school senior who spent the summer with Recon Str… Read more
Nov 2016 An opinionated take on NEJM highlights for October 2016 By Marc Herant NEJM Continued progress in multiple myeloma About 25,000 patients are diagn… Read more
Jul 2012 Clear Health Alliance: Debut of the for-profit HIV/AIDS special needs plan By James Matheson Payers Summary HIV Special Needs Plans (SNPs) offer extra layers of servic… Read more
Nov 2011 Six strategic choices made by CMS in the final ACO rules By Tory Wolff Payers , Providers 1. The final ACO rules largely maintain the demanding economic paramet… Read more
Aug 2011 Partners’ acquisition of Neighborhood Health Plan: reinforcing the role of community health centers in the care continuum By Tory Wolff Payers , Providers Much of the public speculation (for example here and here) regarding t… Read more
Aug 2011 Medicaid going mainstream: thoughts on the IBC / BCBSM / AmeriHealth deal By Tory Wolff Payers Historically Blues have shied away from Medicaid. Two thirds of plans … Read more
Mar 2011 Primary care capacity and the looming Medicaid surge: Medicaid-focused providers must be part of the answer By Tory Wolff Payers , Providers Summary A new study from Center for Studying Health System Change su… Read more
