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This letter, from Tom Van Coverden, President and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers, is in response to Wednesday's KHN story Community Health Centers Under Pressure to Improve Care.
Providing adequate primary care at Oakhurst Medical Center, a community health center in Georgia, is often hampered by language and cultural barriers that separate immigrants seeking care at the center from the doctors who care for them.
But some patients still struggle to find specialists.
Quality is uneven at federally funded clinics that treat millions of poor people.
KHN's Jordan Rau and Mary Agnes Carey discuss Medicare's transition to compensating doctors based on the quality of the medical care they provide.
A little-noticed provision of the health law calls for increasing reimbursements to doctors who provide quality care at lower cost and reducing payments to physicians who run up costs without better results.
Massachusetts Medical Society President Dr. Lynda Young offers her views on how the practice of medicine has changed in the six years since the state's health reform law took effect and how issues of health care costs continue to be an everyday concern.
As Massachusetts policy makers and stakeholders focus on efforts to control health care costs through payment reform, Health Care for All's Paul Williams outlines the considerations that are crucial to ensuring that patients experience a higher quality of care, and the most vulnerable are protected.
As his state's health reforms mark their sixth anniversary, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick explains how he hopes to confront the next health reform challenges -- controlling health care costs and overhauling the payment system.
Lynn Nicholas, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, outlines how tackling health care cost, payment and quality issues is the next necessary step in order to make the state's reform achievements sustainable.
Nine groups list 45 practices they say are overused and may harm patients.
The coverage change could help focus doctors and patients on mental health issues, which often go undiagnosed in the elderly, especially those who are dealing with multiple chronic physical problems.
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that a test project
In these programs, people who have been prescribed a diagnostic test or elective procedure earn a bonus when they opt to go to a less expensive facility than the one recommended by their physician.
Experts don't expect the Supreme Court's ruling to alter that course.
Doctors who carry mobile devices are often hit with a flurry of texts, e-mails, Facebook messages and tweets that sometimes keep them from patients' needs.
The states are concerned that third-party funding may drive up the number of people seeking to join the pre-existing condition insurance plans and exhaust the budgets provided by the federal government.
Even as the Supreme Court prepares to hear the historic lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, consumers are already seeing some changes. Jackie Judd talks with KHN's "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews about insurance rebates, flexible spending accounts, preventive care (including contraceptives) and easy-to-read insurance labels.
Gov. Malloy has proposed letting supervised home health aides give medication to Medicaid patients.
Despite deep political division about the health overhaul, implementation marches on.
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