Recession, increase in uncompensated care severely strain Michigan’s health care safety net, says Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation
A report released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) outlines the severe impact of Michigan’s recession on the ability of the health care safety net to provide health care to the growing number of Michigan residents who need their services. From 2007 to 2011, uncompensated care provided by Michigan hospitals increased 42 percent, and patient volume …
Read more >Patient Engagement and Shared Decision Making: Is This the Moment?
Patient engagement is a hot topic in health care right now. Providers, regulators and health plans are all trying to figure out how to better involve patients in their own medical care. Shared decision making—a concept that grew out of Jack Wennberg’s work on regional variation in the use of health care services—is a tool that fits right into the …
Read more >Myths and Misperceptions: Who Will Be Helped by the Coverage Expansions in the ACA?
The debate about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rages on as we get closer and closer to the big coverage changes that take effect starting on January 1, 2014 (with open enrollments for the health insurance exchange beginning in just a few months). The nature of the debates indicates that there is some misperception about who will be helped by …
Read more >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 >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.
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