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Hospitals Urge Peers To Ditch Fast Food, Turn Down The Lights

By Phil Galewitz April 3, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Eleven of the nation’s largest hospital systems –including Kaiser Permanente, HCA Healthcare and Boston-based Partners HealthCare — today called on their industry to be better environmental stewards. The Healthier Hospitals Initiative challenges hospitals to reduce energy use and waste, purchase environmentally friendlier products and serve healthier foods. The effort is as much about reducing health risks and environmental […]

Doctors And Insurers Are Key To Fighting Obesity

By Judith Graham May 12, 2012 KFF Health News Original

IOM report says physicians need to be more rigorous in dealing with patients’ weight, and insurers should reverse stingy reimbursement policies and help develop evidence-based programs that can help curb the epidemic.

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By Mary Agnes Carey June 28, 2012 KFF Health News Original

The law contains a number of provisions that are changing the rules of health care for consumers.

New Group To Set Priorities for Medical Effectiveness Research

By Julie Appleby January 16, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Congress is betting more than $3 billion over the next decade that “comparative effectiveness” research can transform medical care by helping determine the best approach to a particular illness.

Health Care In The States – Archive 2012

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School Cafeterias Join Fight Against Childhood ObesityBy Eric Whitney, Colorado Public Radio, Dec. 28 Increasingly, the movement to reduce childhood obesity by improving what kids eat in school has changed the game. Feds Approve Minn. Exchange, Insurers Scramble To Develop Health Plans By Elizabeth Stawicki, Minneosta Public Radio, Dec. 21 Insurers say they have to […]

Chasing The Stars, Insurers Improve Quality — And Revenue

By Christopher Weaver October 12, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Only a handful of Medicare Advantage plans win five stars for quality. But the bonuses attached to the federal rating system are reshaping the competitive landscape for insurers.

Head Of Major HMO Sees Openings For Accountable Care Organizations-The KHN Interview

By Joanne Silberner July 25, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Permanente’s George Halvorson says that despite the complexity of ACO regs, some versions have the potential to save money and improve care.

Oregon Wants To Grade Its ACOs

By Kristian Foden-Vencil, Oregon Public Broadcasting October 19, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Oregon’s Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat and a physician, is pushing for a way for the state’s health plans to coordinate care better for patients.

Health Insurers Deny Coverage To Many Who Apply For Individual Policies

By Phil Galewitz September 11, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Data from a federal website show that denial rates routinely exceed 20 percent and often are much higher.

Nixon’s HMOs Hold Lessons For Obama’s ACOs

By Phil Galewitz October 21, 2011 KFF Health News Original

The Obama administration acknowledges its highly touted accountable care organization program will have a modest early impact on the U.S. health system — with only 4 percent of Medicare beneficiaries affected by 2015 Perhaps the Obama White House is taking a lesson from the last time a U.S. president kicked off a major new program designed […]

Costs Of Employer Insurance Plans Surge in 2011

By Julie Appleby September 27, 2011 KFF Health News Original

An annual survey has found that the average cost of a family health insurance plan rose 9 percent this year – triple the growth rate seen in 2010. KHN’s Julie Appleby filed this story.

A Special Kind Of Health Care Fantasy Fulfilled?

By Jordan Rau September 20, 2011 KFF Health News Original

As health policy researchers gathered at the Brookings Institution today to learn about a new trove of data from some of the nations’ biggest health plans, the panel’s moderator, John Carey, noted that he had met his wife in the auditorium years before. There was a different kind of lust in the air again as […]

Tracking Down Patients Who Skip Their Drugs

By Shefali S. Kulkarni June 29, 2011 KFF Health News Original

For doctors, pharmacists and other health care experts, it’s a bitter pill to swallow: nearly a quarter of people who get a prescription don’t bother to fill it. That gap leads to a variety of health issues, according to Marsha Raebel, a researcher for Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Research in Denver. (KHN is not […]

Trends To Watch For Curbing Health Costs

By Mary Agnes Carey and Marilyn Werber Serafini July 20, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Industry mergers, doctor-hospital cooperation, new payment models are among the changes identified by six health care experts.

Many On-The-Job Clinics Offer Primary Care

By Michelle Andrews May 24, 2011 KFF Health News Original

These workplace centers are increasingly expanding beyond job injuries to offer on-site preventive tests and screenings and health coaching.

ACO Debacle Exposes Obamacare’s Fatal Conceit (Guest Opinion)

By Michael F. Cannon June 3, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Obamacare’s number-one idea for improving health care quality and reducing costs is to promote something called “accountable care organizations” in Medicare is sinking like a stone because it is premised on the notion that government experts can direct the market better than consumers.

Capsules: A Special Kind Of Health Care Fantasy Fulfilled?

September 20, 2011 Morning Briefing

Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealthcare have agreed to provide their claims data to a new nonprofit research initiative.

Blue Shield Of California Sets Profit Cap Other Insurers May Not Imitate

By Christopher Weaver and Julie Appleby and Phil Galewitz June 9, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Blue Shield of California’s decision to cap profits at 2 percent was widely applauded, but other health insurers aren’t likely to follow suit.

Under Health Law, Colonoscopies Are Free – But It Doesn’t Always Work That Way

By Harris Meyer April 25, 2011 KFF Health News Original

The billing can get complicated if doctors find a polyp during a screening: Some insurers

Managed Care Enters The Exam Room As Insurers Buy Doctor Groups

By Christopher Weaver July 1, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Large health insurers are trying to curb rising costs by gaining control over those who provide care: doctors.

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