This post, by a high school senior who spent the summer with Recon Strategy as a paid intern, explores the literature on doula support for pregnant mothers to complement traditional care to both impro…
Continued progress in multiple myeloma
About 25,000 patients are diagnosed with multiple myeloma yearly in the US. Despite being initially treatable, typically this disease is ultimately lethal. Follo…
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HIV Special Needs Plans (SNPs) offer extra layers of services specialized for the HIV/AIDS patient and can generate attractive savings particularly in reduced in-patient costs
A new par…
1. The final ACO rules largely maintain the demanding economic parameters for mature ACOs (Track 2) found in the originally proposed version (relative, for example, to the original PGP demonstration p…
Much of the public speculation (for example here and here) regarding the acquisition of a local high quality safety net health plan -- is it about locking in Medicaid volume? or about doing a “good de…
Historically Blues have shied away from Medicaid. Two thirds of plans do not serve any Medicaid and those that do often have disproportionately small shares. No real surprise: Medicaid specialist plan…
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A new study from Center for Studying Health System Change suggests that new Medicaid eligibles under reform will have trouble getting access because most primary care are not accepting new M…
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