The Commonwealth Fund: Publications 
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Policymakers have proposed redesigning Medicare Part D to protect beneficiaries from high out-of-pocket costs and reduce overall program spending.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - May 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kristi Martin Source Type: research
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Medicare drug price negotiation would allow the program to directly negotiate prices with drugmakers, either all Medicare-covered drugs or just the costliest ones.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - May 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kristi Martin Source Type: research
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Overall Medicare spending increases for inpatient care are being driven more by rising volumes of highly reimbursed services than by growth in payments per se.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - April 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Melinda B. Buntin, Christine Lai, Liliana Podczerwinski, Sabrina Poon, Christopher Wallis Source Type: research
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On the latest episode of The Dose podcast, Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, makes the case that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequities in health care too difficult to ignore. She believes women will emerge “smarter and stronger” from this crisis.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - April 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shanoor Seervai Source Type: research
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Nearly all (96%) of Medicare Advantage and Part D plans contract with agents (brokers), who are not required to represent all available plans.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - April 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Riaz Ali, Aimee Cicchiello, Morgan Hanger, Lesley Hellow, Ken Williams, Gretchen Jacobson Source Type: research
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - April 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Madeline O ’Brien, Sabrina Corlette Source Type: research
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On The Dose podcast, Vivian Shaw and Susanna Park of AAPI COVID-19 Project discuss deep roots anti-Asian bias, how pandemic is affecting lives of Asians in U.S.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - April 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shanoor Seervai Source Type: research
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This issue of Transforming Care looks at health care organizations that engage patients in meaningful ways, including efforts to improve quality and safety.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - April 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Martha Hostetter, Sarah Klein Source Type: research
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - April 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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If you’re an optimist, then every piece of good news about vaccine approvals and shots in arms has put the end of the pandemic in sight. If you’re a pessimist, then all the new variants with names sounding like computer-generated passwords signal the apocalypse.
Will hope win, or will dread?
On the latest episode of The Dose podcast, Eric Schneider, M.D., talks about the high-stakes race between the quick-spreading variants of COVID-19 and the effective vaccines that more Americans receive each day.
Schneider brings us up to speed on the state of the pandemic and the challenges ahead. Drawing on his expertise in pub...
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - March 26, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shanoor Seervai Source Type: research
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Continuing waivers that expand telemedicine services may improve access to care for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - March 18, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kristen E. Riley, Thomas C. Tsai, Jos é F. Figueroa, Ashish K. Jha Source Type: research
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A year into the pandemic, pediatric practice leaders discuss the sustained reduction in office visits among younger patients, particularly those under 5.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - March 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sarah Klein, Martha Hostetter Source Type: research
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Costa Rica’s well-trained, highly skilled workforce provides an important lesson for the U.S. on how to professionalize and integrate community health workers.
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - March 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Amelia VanderZanden, Madeline Pesec, Melinda K. Abrams, Asaf Bitton, Anna Kennedy, Hannah Ratcliffe, Laurie Zephyrin, Dan Schwarz Source Type: research
