Affordable Care Act Brings Nearly a Half Billion Dollars to Michigan over Five Years, Built Infrastructure, Access to Health Care
A report released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) shows that since 2010, the state of Michigan has received close to a half billion dollars in grant funding to develop and implement programs and services as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Michigan received $489.4 million from March 2010, when the ACA became law, through …
Read more >Survey reveals 87 percent of Michigan primary care doctors have capacity to take new patients; 64 percent taking new Medicaid patients
A 2014 Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) survey of Michigan primary care doctors shows that the great majority – close to 9 out of 10 physicians – have capacity to accept more patients, quieting concerns about meeting increased demand as more people continue to get coverage under the Affordable Care Act. In particular, the survey reveals that considerably …
Read more >Report reveals alternative tactics to Medicaid expansion in Republican-led Michigan is model for other states
A report released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) shows that the alternative approach to passing and implementing Medicaid expansion in Michigan – a state led by a Republican governor—can be a model for other states with bi-partisan or Republican-led governments seeking Medicaid expansion. “The number of Republican governorships retained—and gained—during the midterm elections makes Michigan’s …
Read more >How personal advocacy influences autism policy
Co-authors Marianne Udow-Phillips, director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation Dr. John F. Greden, founding chair of the National Network of Depression Centers and executive director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center It will take leaders like Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, who are willing to speak up about their personal journey, to move public policy in …
Read more >CHRT Report: New laws covering Autism treatment creating opportunities for care, challenges in access, supply
A report examining current implementation of new autism laws in Michigan, released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, reveals a changing environment for autism care. Under these laws, state-regulated insurance plans must cover diagnosis and medically necessary treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from birth through 18 years and Medicaid and MIChild must now cover …
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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