Study Suggests Policy Solutions Could Tame Skyrocketing Specialty Drug Costs Michigan
Prescription drug costs are the fastest growing component of total U.S. health care costs, with the increase in retail prescription drug spending (12%) outpacing overall health care spending (5%) in 2014 Spending on specialty drugs—which are used to treat complex, chronic medical conditions and typically require special handling, administration, and monitoring—is a significant component of drug spending, amounting to 22 …
Read more >Study Shows ACA Medicaid Expansion Increased Access to Substance Use Services: Medicaid expansion particularly important in face of opioid crisis
A study released by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) shows that the ACA Medicaid expansion provided additional support to people who need substance use services—an increasing number of people in light of the opioid crisis. The study examined the impact of the ACA Medicaid expansion on public mental health and substance use services in three demographically-similar Midwestern …
Read more >MLive: Senate health-care plan would cost Michigan billions in lost funding, studies say
“It would be very devastating to the state of Michigan,” CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips told MLive about the Graham-Cassidy bill, the latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Read more >WDET-FM: What Revived GOP Healthcare Proposal Might Mean for Michigan
After surviving numerous near-death experiences, the Affordable Care Act is once more at risk with the Graham-Cassidy proposal. CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips joins host Stephen Henderson to explain the latest proposal.
Read more >Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) becomes new home for Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance
The Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT), an independent nonprofit impact organization housed at the University of Michigan, is the new host organization for the Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance (MiCHWA), an organization that works to advance and train community health workers across the state and achieve policies that lead to sustainable financing of CHW programs. As part of …
Read more >CHRT to develop tool assessing capacity of statewide Choosing Wisely® efforts
The Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT), in collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI), received a $55,380 grant from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation to develop a tool to help assess a state’s capacity to launch a statewide Choosing Wisely® campaign. An initiative of the ABIM Foundation in partnership …
Read more >WDIV: History behind the U.S. health care crisis: How did we get here?
From the turn of the century to today’s proposed health care bills, CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips covers the U.S. health care system’s evolution.
Read more >Detroit Free Press: Why health care bills leave poor, sick behind
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips explains why neither the U.S. House of Representatives’ American Health Care Act nor the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act is a repeal and replacement of the ACA.
Read more >WDIV: Health Care Crisis: Pre-existing conditions
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips explains why protections for pre-existing conditions would erode under recent proposed health care bills to repeal and replace the ACA.
Read more >WDET-FM: What Would Obamacare repeal mean for Michigan?
Republicans in Congress say their first priority in the new year is to repeal the federal health care law. They voted many times to repeal Obamacare over the past several years, only to see those efforts vetoed by President Obama. But soon they’ll have a Republican in the White House, one who campaigned aggressively on repealing the health care law…
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