Health Care News and Resources – Week of November 7, 2016

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

• Hospitals Fret Over Financial Impact of ACA Repeal, from Modern Healthcare.

EMERGENCY CARE

• Going to the Emergency Room Without Leaving the Living Room, from The New York Times.

MEDICARE

• CMS to Pay Hospitals to Drop Coverage Appeals, from Modern Healthcare.
• Should Medicare Pull the Plug on Value-Based Purchasing? from Modern Healthcare.

OPIOID EPIDEMIC

• Trying to Solve the Nation’s Pain Paradox, Opioid Epidemic – Insurers’ Role, from H&HN.

PATIENT-CENTERED CARE

• How to Put Patients at the Center of Their Care, from H&HN.

POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT

• The New Keys to Population Health Management, from H&HN.

QUALITY AND SAFETY

• Joint Commission: Hospitals Show Improvement in Quality and Safety, from H&HN.