Tag Archives: Medicaid

Got Ideas About Medicare and Medicaid Reform?

By Ben Comer | Published: October 26, 2011
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is now accepting applications for its Innovation Advisors Program. The CMMI, created by the Affordable Care Act, is tasked with “testing new models of healthcare delivery and payment.”
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Obama Deficit Plan Sides With PBMs Over Big Pharma

By Ben Comer | Published: September 20, 2011
Amid the flurry of cost-cutting proposals aimed at guiding the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction’s (Super Committee) budgetary blade, the Obama Administration has now weighed in with a proposal to cut $248 billion from Medicare spending over ten years, and $73 billion in Medicaid and other health-related spending. The Obama plan, which would increase [...]
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Does Pharma Have a Debt Crisis Strategy?

By William Looney and Ben Comer | Published: July 20, 2011
The Obama Administration’s proposed fiscal budget for 2012 suggested that all bets are off for biopharmaceutical revenue safeguards, but it never had a chance with Congress, as evidenced by a unanimous no-thank-you from the Senate in late May. But that was before debt ceiling talks and the alleged possibility of a default emerged as the [...]
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IPAB : An HCR Acronym You Need to Understand

By Guest Blogger | Published: June 1, 2011
Tom Norton throws some light on the much-vaunted Independent Payment Advisory Board. Working towards our top issue for the June edition of the HCR Monthly Review, I continue to be struck by the amount of macroeconomic data that will be driving the new HCR law. Indeed, most of the key performance measures in the 2010 statute [...]
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More States Follow Washington's Value-Based Lead

By Guest Blogger | Published: April 22, 2011
Cameron McClearn looks at how Washington State’s approach to health care value is beginning to influence the rest of the country. Many trends start on the West Coast and migrate to the rest of the nation. The Washington State health care system is worth watching as officials evaluate the economic value of medical treatments for state [...]
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