Crain's Detroit Business, In The Media: Survey notes drop in small businesses offering health insurance
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips explains why she does not believe the Affordable Care Act is behind a drop in the number of small Michigan companies offering health insurance between 2013 and 2014, and her predictions for future insurance offer rate trends among businesses.
Read more >In The Media: Roundtable on 50th anniversary of Medicare
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips participated in the Ford School & IHPI roundtable discussion with U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell and former U.S. Rep. John Dingell to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Medicare and 80th anniversary of Social Security.
Read more >In The Media, WKAR Current State: Michigan analyst praises SCOTUS health care ruling
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips explains what the highly anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell provides moving forward: certainty.
Read more >In The Media, Washington Business Journal: Here’s why massive health insurance mergers might not be bad for business
Amid a potentially massive shuffle of ownership in the health insurance market, the Washington Business Journal asks CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips if all these mergers are a good thing or bad for business.
Read more >In The Media, MiBiz: Study determines CON limits new entrants, health care competition
CHRT’s May 2015 report, “A Tale of Three Cities: Health Care Costs in the Midwest,” is cited after a George Mason University report re-ignites discussion on Michigan’s certificate-of-need law.
Read more >Governing: Ways States Can (Try to) Tame Health Premiums
In this report on ways states can (try) minimizing premium spikes, Governing talks with CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips about what’s happening in Michigan.
Read more >Michigan Radio: A preview of Affordable Care Act marketplace, year 2
Two months from today, open enrollment begins and this year, there’s new considerations for consumers buying insurance on the Michigan Health Insurance Marketplace. CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips joins Michigan Radio’s Stateside host Cynthia Canty to preview what’s ahead.
Read more >MLive: Deadliest threat patients never see coming: How an infection can become sepsis
MLive cites both CHRT and 2013 CHRT Fellow Dr. Theodore Iwashyna, an associate professor at the University of Michigan and research scientist at the Ann Arbor VA, in this sidebar on sepsis, a life-threatening infection.
Read more >The Oakland Press: Expand Healthy Kids Dental to all remaining counties
Peter J. Polverini, DDS, DMSc, dean emeritus at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and a 2014 CHRT Policy Fellow, calls on the Michigan Legislature to expand Healthy Kids Dental to Wayne, Oakland and Kent counties.
Read more >The Tennessean: Health care providers question future of charity care
Reducing reimbursements to hospitals that provide charity care “…leaves hospitals to come up with strategies that best fit what’s going on in their particular market,” says Josh Fangmeier, CHRT’s health policy analyst.
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