Crain's Detroit Business: Washtenaw health care collaborative plans for influx of insured patients in 2014
Report on the Washtenaw Health Initiative, a voluntary health care collaborative facilitated by CHRT.
Read more >The Ann Arbor News: U-M, St. Joe’s join new initiative to help Washtenaw brace for federal health care reform, fill coverage gaps
Report on the Washtenaw Health Initiative, a voluntary health care collaborative facilitated by CHRT.
Read more >ACOs: What Will They Really Be?
Sixty-five quality indicators? Retrospectively attributed patient populations? Risk after the fact? Significant management and financial investment required with uncertain payback? This may not sound like a strategy to win the hearts and minds of providers who are on the fence about whether or not to participate in CMS’ new approach to care: accountable care organizations (ACOs). So, what is going …
Read more >Survey shows health coverage is important — but not sufficient to guarantee access to care
The second annual Cover Michigan Survey, released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT), shows that people who lack health coverage are more likely to seek medical treatment in costlier care settings and less likely to have regular, preventive care. The survey of 1,000 Michigan adults also reveals that simply having health coverage does not guarantee access …
Read more >The Detroit News: Study: State Medicaid users face uphill battle
Report on CHRT’s Cover Michigan Survey 2011. (No longer available online)
Read more >Cover Michigan Survey 2011
Today we are releasing our Cover Michigan Survey, 2011. Like last year’s survey, this report looks at what Michigan residents say about their access to health care. Different from last year, this survey was designed to look more in-depth at access, along with health status. Our findings confirm last year’s major finding: Having health insurance coverage is important but not …
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Report: Uninsured patients 3 times more likely to use emergency departments, are sicker
Report on CHRT’s Cover Michigan Survey 2011.
Read more >Congratulations to Governor Snyder
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder deserves special notice and acknowledgement for the courage and focus he displayed in his decision not to sign on to the letter signed by all other Republican governors, asking for changes to the Medicaid program and advocating for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. I am sure Governor Snyder disagrees with some provisions of the …
Read more >What it will take: Case in point – Cancer Care
In the New England Journal of Medicine on May 26, 2011, Thomas Smith and Bruce Hillner describe a series of strategies to reduce the cost of spending on cancer care in the United States. The article is compelling, and highlights the reasons health care spending is so difficult to talk about—much less do something about: all five strategies involve changes to …
Read more >Let’s just start over?
I get asked to speak about health reform on a fairly frequent basis. It is actually quite fun, because health reform is so topical and there is always something new going on. I also enjoy the subject because there is always a range of viewpoints in any given audience: from those who strongly advocate for a single payer system to …
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