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		<title>Look to Massachusetts for bundling innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Physicians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s obvious that, to be truly effective in lowering costs and improving quality, payment  bundling must include outpatient services as well as inpatient services, but the logistics of doing so are daunting. Geri Aston discusses this in today&#8217;s amednews.com
One model to consider is that used by Mount Auburn Hospital in Massachusetts. The bundled payments from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency is only one step toward change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Price transparency alone does not lead to lower prices for health care services, according to an analysis of the New Hampshire HealthCost transparency program by the New Hampshire Insurance Department and the Center for Studying Health System Change.
..the study found public price reporting had no impact on price  variation across providers, a result attributed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What alignment is most important?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone interested in the future of health care watches Geisinger Health System to see how its innovations in health care payment and delivery are working.
Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, posted a blog entry based on a Philadelphia Inquirer article about policymakers&#8217; interest in Geisinger. He posed an important question designed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to a new beginning?</title>
		<link>http://lolabutcher.com/wordpress/archives/95</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health and Human Services, building off work started by private insurers and Medicaid in Vermont, finally is starting its medical home demonstration.

It will be interesting to see if universal alignment of payment systems achieves the efficiencies and care improvement that we are all hoping for.  According to HHS press release:
This demonstration will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employers continue to shift costs to workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This news from today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, while not surprising, might give some health care reform opponents pause to consider where this trend will end if nothing is done to change the way health care is delivered and purchased.
According to the story:
In 2010, nearly two-thirds of employers plan to shift more of the cost of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physicians have their say</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have not been hearing enough about what physicians think about the health care reform debate, so yesterday&#8217;s New England Journal of Medicine was especially interesting to me.
I was surprised by the survey results that a solid majority of physicians support a public option to increase competition competition for private insurers. I probably should not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health insurance benefits will get skimpier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercer&#8217;s annual survey to find out what employers plan to do with their insurance coverage is out, and the consumer-directed health plan movement seems to be a big winner.
If employers kept employee medical plans in 2010 as they were in 2009, costs would rise by almost 9 percent, Mercer found.  That&#8217;s not happening in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Affairs tackles health care costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new issue of Health Affairs tackles the topic that should be on every American&#8217;s mind: health care costs. Figuring this out is the moral imperative of our time, but anyone who has an easy pat answer is someone who is not paying attention.
As editor Susan Dentzer puts it:
A MODERN TWIST on Greek myth would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Note to President Obama: Read this</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t always understand how Congressional politics work, but Eugene Robinson does. This is the first time I&#8217;ve felt hopeful about health care insurance reform in several days. http://tinyurl.com/p6sp78
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		<title>CDHP movement slow, steady</title>
		<link>http://lolabutcher.com/wordpress/archives/35</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health care quality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the consumer-directed health plan was supposed to create a rational marketplace that would save America&#8217;s health care system?
The 2008 Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey conducted by the Employee Benefits Research Institute found that 3 percent of the population was enrolled in a CDHP in 2008, up from 2 percent in 2007 and [...]]]></description>
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