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Accelerating Health Equity by Measuring and Paying for Results
The use of and reliance on quality measurement continues to grow with the increased focus on transforming the health care system into one that rewards value over volume. However, despite this increase...
View MoreTrump Administration Proposed 2020 Marketplace Rule: Key Health Consumer Issues
On January 17, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that would raise consumers’ out-of-pocket costs for health care under individual and employer-sponsored ...
View MoreAdvancing Health Equity through Better Evidence for Asthma Care: Translating Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Learnings into Equity-Focused Policy Recommendations
Patients deserve evidence-based, high-value health care rooted in the most rigorous scientific methods. However, research practices that generate our current evidence base have historically excluded a...
View MoreFinal 2020 Health Insurance Marketplace Rules Are a Mixed Bag for Consumers
On April 18, 2019, the Trump Administration finalized the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2020 (NBPP). This rule will govern health insurance marketplaces and set the framework for insu...
View MoreReinsurance 101: A Framework for State Advocates and Policymakers
In state houses all across the country, advocates, legislators, and state officials are considering proposals to restore the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) temporary reinsurance program, which ende...
View MoreLatest Senate Bill Still Strips Coverage and Drives Up Costs for Millions More
Just as with the first two versions of the Senate health bill, the latest version would devastate insurance coverage, gut the Medicaid program and dramatically increase deductibles and out of pocket c...
View MoreConsumers First Call to Action
Families USA, in partnership with American Academy of Family Physicians, American Benefits Council, American Federation of State, Country, and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Teachers, Fir...
View MoreThe Trump Administration’s Blueprint for Health Care
Earlier this week, the Trump Administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2019. This is the president’s first full budget proposal since taking office and it outlines the administrati...
View MoreThe Government Shutdown Aggravates an Already Strained Indian Health Services
The partial government shutdown enters its 27th day and no end is in sight. Although major health care programs like Medicaid and Medicare are funded, this is not true for the Indian Health Services (...
View MoreHouse Legislation Would Lower Health Care Costs for Millions of Families in America
Key findings On March 26, 2019, the chairs of three House committees with jurisdiction over core health care issues—Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means—jointly introduced...
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