The Overlooked Obamacare Sales Force: Hospitals
Nobody has a bigger financial stake in the success of Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges than hospitals. And few may work harder to sign up consumers than hospitals themselves.
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A Road To Health? Rural Alaska Town Argues For Access
A road in King Cove, Alaska would give 1,000 residents better access to emergency health care, but it would slice through a wildlife refuge. The decision rests with new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, who toured the town in late August.
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Rural Hospitals in Texas Wary of Proposed Medicare Cuts
A federal proposal to reduce the number of hospitals that carry the 'critical access' designation could cost 60 Texas hospitals that status, along with their enhanced Medicare reimbursements, potentially jeopardizing their survival.
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Nurse Practitioner’s Life Story Prepares Him To Work With Homeless
As a primary care clinician at a health care clinic in northeast D.C., Douglas Reed's life growing up in the neighborhood near the clinic prepared him to care for the residents there -- and the special needs they have.
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Pathways To Housing: One Woman’s Story
Two years ago Pathways to Housing helped a homeless Alicia O. find an apartment and get regular medical care, the first steps on her way to changing her circumstances, and improving her life.
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Nurse Practitioners Try New Tack To Expand Foothold In Primary Care
Advanced practice nurses say that despite growing need for primary care, they are stymied by insurers that won't credential them.
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‘A Calling’ To Care For The Poor At St. Louis’ Grace Hill Community Centers
Some of the funding for Grace Hill and smaller community health centers in St. Louis may be in jeopardy, even as the number of people seeking discounted care or free is increasing in a state that will not expand Medicaid under the health law.
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Some Hospitals Turn To Post-Discharge Clinics To Help Hold Down Readmissions
A study finds that a third of adult patients discharged from a hospital don't see a physician within 30 days -- and experts say this is a key reason so many of them need to come back in.
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Don Berwick’s Newest Phase: Candidate, But Still Dr. Quality
The former acting administrator of CMS, now running for governor of Massachusetts, explains his "Letter to the People of England," a call for continuous learning to improve quality within Britain's National Health Service.
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Why Health Law’s ‘Essential’ Coverage Might Mean ‘Bare Bones’
But how can a law praised for expanding coverage -- one that includes an "employer mandate" to offer "minimum essential coverage" -- allow companies to offer insurance that might not even cover hospitalization?
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Despite Additional Dollars, Texas Doc Shortage Is Hard to Fix
The medical community is concerned the state's plans to produce more physicians to treat a surging population are insufficient.
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Letters To The Editor: The Health Law And Alternative Medicine; Understanding Premium Rates; More On Hospital Readmissions
Letters to the Editor is a periodic KHN feature that details readers responses to recent KHN stories.
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An Alaska-Sized Price Difference: A Circumcision In Anchorage Hospitals Can Cost $2,110 or $235
Some pediatricians, upset about the pricing for their patients and the lack of easy access to what the hospitals charge, are doing the procedures in their offices instead.
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Moving People Home After Nursing Home Stay Is Complicated
A program aimed at getting people out of nursing homes and back in their own homes is off to a slow start. Organizers say it's a challenge to find out which services each person needs, from meals delivered to a whole new apartment.
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Talking Scales and Telemedicine: ACO Tools To Keep Patients Out Of The Hospital
A Minnesota hospital's care for congestive heart failure patients set the stage for it to become an Accountable Care Organization under the health law.
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Obamacare Presents Complex Choices For People With Disabilities
Some categories of essential benefits under the health law, like maternity care and preventive care, are straightforward. But "habilitative services" -- including treatments like physical and speech therapy -- are much more subjective.
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My Place CT
Connecticut Department of Social Services' Dawn Lambert discusses the state's efforts to address residents' long-term care needs while minimizing the strain on the state's Medicaid budget.
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St. Louis’ Busiest Safety Net Hospital Braces For Health Law Challenges
Christian Hospital's struggle to serve the disadvantaged is not likely to get easier under the Affordable Care Act.
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Armed With Bigger Fines, Medicare To Punish 2,225 Hospitals For Excess Readmissions
Penalties will total $227 million, but many hospitals will see their fines go down in October in the second year of the program.
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Sources and Methodology: A Guide To Medicare’s Readmissions Data And KHN’s Analysis
Kaiser Health News' data on hospital readmissions penalties comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
By Jordan Rau