MLive: Report shows high costs of chronic medical conditions in Michigan
Report on CHRT’s August 2010 issue brief “Health Care Cost Drivers: Chronic Disease, Comorbidity, and Health Risk Factors in the U.S. and Michigan.”
Read more >Chronic Conditions Equal High Expenditures in Michigan
Chronic conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, and coronary artery disease, are attacking our wallets in Michigan. According to a new issue brief from the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT), average annual spending for someone with a chronic condition can cost from $3,785 to $38,270 more than someone with no chronic condition. Chronic conditions are also disproportionally costly. Data …
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Chronic diseases drive high health care costs in Michigan, report finds
Report on CHRT’s August 2010 issue brief “Health Care Cost Drivers: Chronic Disease, Comorbidity, and Health Risk Factors in the U.S. and Michigan.”
Read more >The Ann Arbor News: Packard Health gets further support in bid to create clinic on Washtenaw County’s east side
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips is quoted explaining the significance of the potential designation as a Federally Qualified Community Health Care Center of Ann Arbor’s Packard Health, whose effort to receive the designation was recently boosted by a $25,000 grant.
Read more >What’s Early Childhood Got to Do with Health Care Reform?
One of the provisions I particularly like in the Affordable Care Act is the section that provides $1.5 billion over five years to states for home visiting programs for new mothers. Under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, nurses, social workers, or other professionals are expected to meet with at-risk families in their homes, evaluate the families’ …
Read more >Prognosis on Electronic Medical Records: The Long Slog to Come
On July 13, 2010, HHS released final rules telling providers of care how to demonstrate the “meaningful use” of electronic medical records in order to be eligible for incentives starting in 2011. By 2015, most providers who don’t adopt electronic medical records will face penalties. The originally proposed rules were considered too rigid by many, and would have made it …
Read more >Physicians: To employ or not to employ – that is the question!
While my personal thoughts frequently center around issues such as “being,” on a professional level I have probably given more thought to the issue of physician employment than any other. I am old enough to recall when an employed physician was actually an oddity. During my many years working on the provider side of the business, I experienced the rush …
Read more >Health Reform: The Early Days
Early reviews are in and they are favorable! Public opinion polls show support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) creeping up to 48 percent. All of that is good news, and a well-deserved commentary on health reform: States and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have been moving quickly to put in place the most immediate requirements of the …
Read more >The Berwick Confirmation and Irrationality
The confirmation process for Don Berwick as President Obama’s nominee to be director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the Department of Health and Human Services should be a most distressing sight to anyone who has spent their careers in health policy – or who even has a passing interest in the policies and politics of health …
Read more >TalkLansing.net: Marianne Udow-Phillips “Talk Lansing” Interview
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips was interviewed by web radio station TalkLansing.net. The complete audio of the interview is available below.
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