The Detroit News: Lead drug price hike hits nerve in Flint
The cost of a lead poisoning drug that’s a staple in hospital emergency departments has increased by roughly 2,700 percent since 2013, resonating with some in Flint and prompting a call for a congressional hearing…
Read more >The University Record: UMHS board now includes outside leaders from medicine, business
Marianne Udow-Phillips, CHRT’s executive director, was appointed to the University of Michigan Health System Board on Thursday, after approval from the Board of Regents. In July 2016, the Board of Regents approved the creation of the Health System Board to advise the Board of Regents and Health System leadership and provide governance.
Read more >Bridge Magazine: Building on Obamacare, warts and all
The rhetoric surrounding the Affordable Care Act never seems to die. Most recently, in the second presidential debate, Donald Trump said that, “Obamacare will never work. It’s very bad.” And, Hillary Clinton had to explain what Bill Clinton meant when he, while in Flint, called the health insurance exchange—where many working people buying coverage themselves are facing substantial premium increases, …
Read more >MI Blues Perspectives: CHRT Names New Board of Directors, Launches New Website
For the past 10 years, The Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT)has been working to improve access to high quality health care across Michigan. Each day, CHRT’s experts take research and evidence and transform them into actionable plans and policy that will improve the health of Michiganders…
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation sets new course after changes in funding
One of the premier health policy analysis organizations in Michigan is evolving further into a national institute even as it makes do with less funding from its founding organizations. The Ann Arbor-based Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation, headed by Executive Director Marianne Udow-Phillips, has revised its bylaws and articles of incorporation and reduced its board to nine members from …
Read more >Detroit Free Press, In The Media: Business leaders in the news
John Ayanian, Robert Casalou, Tony Denton, Kevin Klobucar, Francine Parker, Lynda Rossi, Thomas Simmer, Terence Thomas and Brent Williams joined the board of directors of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, a nonprofit organization house at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor…
Read more >In The Media, USA Today: Mylan CEO: ‘Misconception’ about EpiPen profits
The CEO of the drug maker that sells the EpiPen treatment is expected to defend the company’s controversial price increases when she testifies before Congress on Wednesday amid a firestorm over pharmaceutical profits…
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Michigan project to map plan for linking physicians, hospitals, social service organizations
Michigan health officials next year will embark on an ambitious pilot project that they hope will help mend ills the health care system isn’t equipped to fix alone. The goal is to remake the state’s health care system by linking it to social service organizations to more comprehensively coordinate care for patients…
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business, In The Media: Michigan received $709 million from Obamacare to improve health system
Michigan has been one of the nation’s more aggressive states in seeking funds from the Affordable Care Act in the six years since the controversial bill was narrowly approved by Congress in 2010 and signed into law by President Barack Obama…
Read more >In The Media, The Michigan Chronicle: Healthcare disparities in Detroit persist despite progress under Obamacare
With a recent national report indicating profound health disparities between Detroit residents and the rest of the county and state as the backdrop, Detroit’s Wellness Plan Medical Center on Outer Drive has announced an expansion of services. The services will include an onsite Urgent Care Center that accepts all insurances and is now open after hours and weekends at its …
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