Michigan Radio: What can Michigan residents expect from the Affordable Care Act?
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips speaks with Cynthia Canty, host of Michigan Radio’s Stateside, about what Michigan residents should know about the Affordable Care Act as the opening of the new health insurance exchanges nears.
Read more >Michigan Radio: 6 things to know about healthcare changes in Michigan
What does 138 percent of poverty translate into in dollars? Michigan Radio refers to an earlier interview CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips for the answer.
Read more >The Importance of Federally Qualified Health Centers and the ACA
Editor’s Note: This column appeared in Bridge Magazine. About six months after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, our Center hosted a symposium in Ann Arbor on the future of the health care safety net. Sara Rosenbaum, an expert on both the ACA and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), spoke at the event and her remarks emphasized …
Read more >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 …
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