Posts for Health System Transformation
What Consumer Advocates Need to Know About the New MACRA Quality Payment Program Rule
It would have been easy to miss it with the frenzied activity around the Senate health care bills these past few weeks, but on June 20, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed regulation laying out...
New Center Program: Connect Respected Health Care Experts with Consumer Advocates to Improve Care
An essential aspect of the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation’s mission to improve care for vulnerable and historically underserved communities is to support consumer health leaders as they advocate for health system change. To that end, this week...
Director's Corner: The National Academy of Medicine Points the Way to Improved Care for High-Needs Patients
Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the National Academy of Medicine in Washington, D.C., at the release of the Academy’s new special report, “Effective Care for High-Need Patients: Opportunities for Improving Outcomes, Value, and Health.” This...
Capping Medicaid: Lost Home Care Jobs Would Increase the Burden on Family Caregivers
Both the House-passed version of ACA repeal legislation, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and the Senate’s version currently under deliberation – the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) – include a particularly debilitating change: a per capita cap system of...
GOP Health Care Bill is a Step Backwards on the Path to Better Care
Take a moment to imagine that someone you love, maybe an aging parent or grandparent, was just released from the hospital after an illness. What kind of care would you want them to receive? Would you want them to be...
#Aging Out Loud…From Generation to Generation
During this Older Americans Month, we want to pay tribute to a leader with whom many Health Policy Hub readers may not be familiar: Nelson Cruikshank.
“We Don’t Just Take It, We Take Charge!”– Celebrating Older Americans Month
It’s May, and that means it’s Older Americans Month. This year’s theme is Age Out Loud, chosen “…to give aging a new voice – one that reflects what today’s older adults have to say.” Older Americans are a group that...
Director's Corner: What’s the Latest Evidence on Patient Engagement by Primary Care Practices?
Here at the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, we hold the core belief that the voices of consumers are essential for making our health care system better: easier to navigate, more user-friendly and more effective at addressing the...
Director's Corner: What's Next for Person-Centered Care?
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill, 1942 On the heels of the 7th anniversary of the signing of the...
What Consumer Advocates Need to Know About the New MACRA Quality Payment Program Rule
It would have been easy to miss it with the frenzied activity around the Senate health care bills these past few weeks, but on June 20, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed regulation laying out...
New Center Program: Connect Respected Health Care Experts with Consumer Advocates to Improve Care
An essential aspect of the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation’s mission to improve care for vulnerable and historically underserved communities is to support consumer health leaders as they advocate for health system change. To that end, this week...
Director's Corner: The National Academy of Medicine Points the Way to Improved Care for High-Needs Patients
Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the National Academy of Medicine in Washington, D.C., at the release of the Academy’s new special report, “Effective Care for High-Need Patients: Opportunities for Improving Outcomes, Value, and Health.” This...
Capping Medicaid: Lost Home Care Jobs Would Increase the Burden on Family Caregivers
Both the House-passed version of ACA repeal legislation, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and the Senate’s version currently under deliberation – the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) – include a particularly debilitating change: a per capita cap system of...
GOP Health Care Bill is a Step Backwards on the Path to Better Care
Take a moment to imagine that someone you love, maybe an aging parent or grandparent, was just released from the hospital after an illness. What kind of care would you want them to receive? Would you want them to be...
#Aging Out Loud…From Generation to Generation
During this Older Americans Month, we want to pay tribute to a leader with whom many Health Policy Hub readers may not be familiar: Nelson Cruikshank.
“We Don’t Just Take It, We Take Charge!”– Celebrating Older Americans Month
It’s May, and that means it’s Older Americans Month. This year’s theme is Age Out Loud, chosen “…to give aging a new voice – one that reflects what today’s older adults have to say.” Older Americans are a group that...
Director's Corner: What’s the Latest Evidence on Patient Engagement by Primary Care Practices?
Here at the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, we hold the core belief that the voices of consumers are essential for making our health care system better: easier to navigate, more user-friendly and more effective at addressing the...
Director's Corner: What's Next for Person-Centered Care?
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill, 1942 On the heels of the 7th anniversary of the signing of the...