CHRT Projects Regional Impact of ACA, Medicaid Expansion Across Michigan
The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT), based at the University of Michigan, today issued projections on the likely coverage effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Michigan– both with and without an expansion of the Medicaid program. The projections focus on the adult population, aged 19-64, that will be eligible for Medicaid if the state approves its …
Read more >The Power of Incentives: The Story of Electronic Medical Records
In 1999, The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a seminal report on the safety of health care in the U.S.: To Err is Human. The IOM noted that up to 98,000 deaths occurred annually as a result of errors in the health care system. They recommended systemic change to improve the safety of the system. One of the recommendations included …
Read more >Medicaid recipients are the most satisfied with insurance coverage; individually insured least satisfied, says Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation
A report released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) shows that Medicaid recipients in Michigan were the most satisfied with their health care coverage in 2012, while those with individual coverage were the least satisfied. This finding gives some insight into to how consumers may react when new qualified health insurance products under the Affordable Care …
Read more >Obamacare seems to be Helping to Curtail Health Care Costs
Editor’s Note: This column previously appeared in Bridge Magazine. In recent months, a conversation has burgeoned in health and public policy forums about the slowdown in the growth of health care spending. We are all asking the same questions: Is this slowdown real? Are some of the past cost containment efforts and recent provisions in the ACA beginning to take …
Read more >The Medicaid Expansion in Michigan Needs to Get Done Now
Editor’s Note: This column previously appeared in Bridge Magazine. On February 6, 2013, Governor Snyder announced his support for expanding Medicaid as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act. In his announcement, he talked about how the expansion would help hundreds of thousands of people in Michigan (our own estimates at the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation put the numbers …
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Study: Only 4 percent of small businesses in Michigan affected by Obamacare provision
Crain’s Detroit Business reports on CHRT’s brief about the Affordable Care Act and its effects on small employers, citing that only 4 percent of Michigan’s 154,488 small businesses with fewer than 100 employees are expected to be impacted by the health insurance mandate contained in the ACA.
Read more >Insurance Coverage in the Small Employer Market: Implications of the Affordable Care Act
Newspaper headlines about small employers’ fears of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) make it seem like there will be a major cataclysm in the small employer health insurance market come January 1, 2014. What most of these stories miss, however, is that a cataclysm has already occurred in employment-based coverage and the likely impacts of the ACA on the small …
Read more >Less than 10 percent of Michigan’s small businesses impacted by Affordable Care Act’s health coverage mandate
The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) today released a brief showing that more than 90 percent of Michigan’s small businesses are exempt from the health insurance mandates that become effective January 1, 2014. The brief also outlines the decision areas that all small employers should consider when determining how to participate in health coverage under the Affordable Care …
Read more >HealthLeaders Media: $6.4B Henry Ford, Beaumont Merger Failed on Cultural Hurdles
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips explains why she wasn’t surprised to hear that merger talks between Henry Ford and Beaumont health systems deteriorated.
Read more >Detroit Free Press: Henry Ford, Beaumont $6.6-billion mega merger is called off
Following the annoucement that the $6.6-billion mega merger between Henry Ford and Beaumont health systems is now off, CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips offers her perspective on contributing factors to the failed merger.
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