Community Catalyst: In The News

The New York Times: Biologics Boondoggle: An op-ed by Community Catalyst Board Member, Dr. Anthony So

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek: What Exactly Is Holding Up Health-Care Reform? MIT's Gruber's Answer: Actuarial Value.

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Herald: Diverse group pushes for national health care reform

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times: Don't Give Up Now

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

HealthDay: The Effect of MA's Special Election on Health Care Reform

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The New Republic: Reform a "Raw Deal" for Massachusetts?

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Michael Miller on Stand Up! With Pete Dominick (audio)

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Huffington Post: House Health Care Bill: Coalition Pushes To Retain Subsidies

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek: How Will Health-Care Reform Affect You? Let Us Count The Ways

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek: Federal Subsidies, Insurance Affordability, and You: A Primer

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek: Who Would Have Really Won With A Medicare Buy-In? The Young

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC: Community Catalyst's Marcia Hams talks to Dr. Nancy Snyderman about how drug companies snoop on doctors' prescriptions

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

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Associated Press: Senators move to block drugmakers from mining Rx data

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe: Worries grow that health overhaul could price out many

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press: Weak economy puts new spotlight on medical pricing

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Chicago Tribune: States, consumer advocates challenge Rx data mining

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

WebMD: Community Catalyst's Michael Miller says health reform should be affordable for families, not just government

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Investor's Business Daily: Community Catalyst says Finance amendment could put future cost burdens on consumers

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

An amendment to the Senate Finance bil by Sen. Charles Grassley that would require premium subsidies to be cut if health reform added to the deficit puts future financing burdens on the shoulds of consumers, Community Catalyst's Michael Miller told Investor's Business Daily.

"If people understand that any cost overruns will come out of their wallets, there could be a lot of popular discontent," he said.

The subsidies in the Finance bill would help people at 134 - 400 percent of the federal poverty line to pay their insurance premiums, but the Grassley amendment, which passed, could leave people unable to afford coverage.

The Finance bill is currently being merged with the Senate HELP committee bill, and consumer advocates are working to shore up the subsidies during that process.

Boston Globe: All sides go on attack as senator issues health plan

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe: Beat back challenges to policies on doctors' perks

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

"To be sure, collaboration between industry and physicians is essential to medical advances," wrote Hams. "However, such partnerships should be guided by independent scientific research, not unscientific marketing. When physicians become industry mouthpieces, patients have a right to question whether their doctor is being unduly influenced."

Modern Healthcare: Data-miners vow to fight bans

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Documentary Spotlights Hospital Whistleblowers in Georgia

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Do No Harm tells the story of two reluctant whistleblowers in a small Georgia town who endure relentless attacks as they struggle to draw national attention to hospital corruption and the plight of the uninsured.

For more information about Do No Harm, local screenings and purchasing the DVD, go to the film's website.

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Cleveland Plain Dealer: Patient fees for hospital maintenance causes fury

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal: Patient Upside Murky in Drug-Price Cases

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The prices of hundreds of brand-name drugs are about to be cut 4%, and millions of Americans may soon receive a check in the mail as compensation for having overpaid for their prescriptions. But the extent to which the average consumer will benefit isn't yet clear.

Congressional Quarterly: When Being Insured Doesn't Mean Being Protected

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The group defines the underinsured as middle-class workers who spend 10 percent or more of their income on out-of-pocket medical expenses, and low-income workers who spend 5 percent or more of their income on health care.

USA Today: In patients' hunt for care, doctor database 'a place to start'

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Unless you've had heart trouble in Schenectady, N.Y., you've probably never heard of cardiologist Steven Weitz. But he has made a difference in this leafy town of 60,000 on the Mohawk River.

Weitz has helped usher in major changes in how local paramedics, emergency room staff and heart specialists treat heart attacks so doctors can clear patients' clogged arteries as quickly as possible.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Hospitals mine data to identify those likely to pay

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

As an Equifax executive, Arvind Krishnaswami saw the chronic gap between what hospitals billed patients and what they received. Hospitals, collecting an average of 10 cents on a dollar, wrote off “a staggering amount of bad debt,” he said.

That disparity gave Krishnaswami the impetus to form Roswell-based Medlytix in 2006, joining a wave of companies that use data to help hospitals improve their back-office accounts.

Time: Selling Out to Growth

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

About one-third of Americans who qualify for public assistance haven't signed up. That amounts to millions of people needlessly going without food stamps, low-income housing or health insurance.

This predicament is what RealBenefits, a Boston-based software start-up, was created to solve. The five-person firm's Web database circumvents complicated government paperwork with easy-to-use screening and enrollment tools. So far RealBenefits has connected nearly 100,000 families to more than $371 million in government aid since 2000.

Baltimore Sun: Congress seeks to have hospitals justify tax-exempt status

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Proposals in the Maryland General Assembly to define which patients are eligible for financial assistance at hospitals are getting an unexpected push from Congress, which might soon consider legislation aimed at making nonprofit hospitals justify their tax-exempt status.

New York Times: For Uninsured Young Adults, Do-It-Yourself Health Care

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

They borrow leftover prescription drugs from friends, attempt to self-diagnose ailments online, stretch their diabetes and asthma medicines for as long as possible and set their own broken bones. When emergencies strike, they rarely can afford the bills that follow.

Public Broadcasting Atlanta: Georgia Advocates Launch Hospital Accountability Project

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800