Detroit Free Press: Court rulings leave millions in health care tax credits in jeopardy
“I think it’s important to understand that this isn’t the last word,” CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips tells the Detroit Free Press following a pair of contradictory court decisions that jeopardize millions of dollars in tax credits for nearly a quarter-million Michiganders.
Read more >The Detroit News: Health law rulings may affect Mich. subsidies
Dueling court decisions on whether people who buy insurance through federally facilitated marketplaces can receive federal health insurance subsidies “emphasize how controversial this law continues to be even in the court system,” CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips tells The Detroit News.
Read more >The Detroit News: Obamacare’s future less dire than touted
CHRT Health Policy Analyst Josh Fangmeier breaks down how an economist’s grim predictions for significant premium increases and plateaued (or even increased) uninsured populations under the Affordable Care Act does not match current data—both nationally and in Michigan.
Read more >Health News Florida: FL in Last Place for ACA Grants
Health News Florida talks with CHRT Health Policy Analyst Josh Fangmeier about his analysis of Affordable Care Act grant totals, which places Florida 51st in the country in per capita funding received between March 2010 and the end of September 2013.
Read more >Creating a Learning Health State in Michigan: Working Together to Change Health Care in our State
Watch the archived event webcast here. The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation brought together an assembly of stakeholders—patients, clinicians, researchers, public health professionals and payers—in Lansing, Mich., to create an action plan to innovatively and collaboratively tackle challenges affecting the health of the people of Michigan by continuous learning and improvement. Seven “actionable” theme groups met with plans to …
Read more >We must save lives by stopping this silent killer
Co-authors Marianne Udow-Phillips, director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation Theodore J. Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., Research Scientist, Center for Clinical Management Research, Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Health System; Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Today in the United States, more than half of all hospital deaths are from something that most people have never heard of: …
Read more >Detroit Free Press: We must save lives by stopping this silent killer (guest column)
In this guest column, CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips and Dr. Theodore Iwashyna, a 2013 CHRT Policy Fellow, call on Michigan to become a leader in preventing severe sepsis, an overwhelming infection that causes more deaths than prostate cancer and breast cancer combined.
Read more >Modern Healthcare: Consolidation could be next for academic medical centers
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips discusses the future of academic health centers with Governing amid the flurry of health care consolidation.
Read more >HealthLeaders Media: Beaumont Health Clears Key Hurdles in Latest Merger Try
In this examination of Beaumont Health System, Botsford Health Care and Oakwood Healthcare’s announcement that they will combine their operations, CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips talks extensively with HealthLeaders Media on the likelihood this deal is closed, what led to the collapse of the Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont merger, and how the new organization
Read more >CHRT Report: Sharp rise in hospitalization for sepsis in Michigan and U.S.
The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation at the University of Michigan today releases a new report that shows a dramatic increase in hospitalizations for septicemia from 2007 to 2011. The hospitalization rate for orthopedic procedures that improve mobility and alleviate chronic pain also increased. The issue brief, The Cost Burden of Disease: United States and Michigan, is an analysis of …
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