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Making Good on ACOs’ Promise — The Final Rule for the Medicare Shared Savings Program
Dr. Donald Berwick, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, recently wrote an article in The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Berwick provides his perspective on managing care by working in a team and ultimately improving the quality of care by setting up an accountable care organization (ACO). He highlights how the ACO rules have changed since they were released back in March after receiving about 1,200 comments on the rules from providers, organizations and other health care stakeholders. The comments focused on reducing the barriers to participate in an ACO (criteria and regulations to qualify and participate), reducing the financial barriers in setting up an ACO and lastly, maintaining patient choice.
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Posted on 2 November 2011 | 8:08 pm by Shuchita Madan
What Should You be Reading About in Health Policy?
To help stay current with health policy news around the nation, we have links for future reference. Healthcare.gov is a great resource not only to look at insurance options and learn about the health care law, but to also learn about individual states, and how much each state spends on treating chronic disease, and how much money can be saved with prevention initiatives.
Additionally, the repeal of the health care law continues to move forward with the 11th circuit court concluding that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. To read more details on the decision, Kaiser provides a summary and links to the entire decision, The Health Care blog also has a good piece on the effects of the law if the individual mandate is not intact.
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Posted on 2 September 2011 | 2:10 pm by Shuchita Madan
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Ethics Forum on “Ethical Obesity Policy”, Thursday, November 3
The Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics is hosting the Ethics Forum organized by Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler, Director of Health Care Ethics. The forum takes place on Thursday, November 3rd, in the Dean's Conference room 434B, located in Robinson Hall B from 12pm to 1pm. Dr. Angus Dawson is Professor of Public Health Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham, UK. He joins us for our third Ethics Forum with his talk titled: “Ethical Obesity Policy”. 
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Posted on 2 November 2011 | 7:48 pm by Shuchita Madan
Happy Hour with New Student Chapter of AcademyHealth
The brand new Student Chapter of AcademyHealth will host their first social event of the year tomorrow evening at Hard Times Cafe in downtown Fairfax. HappyHour 10-13-11 for more details.
The officers will be there to answer questions about the chapter and give more information about the benefits of joining. 
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Posted on 12 October 2011 | 3:32 pm by Shuchita Madan
Ethics Forum-Hosted by the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics
The Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics is hosting the Ethics Forum organized by Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler, Director of Health Care Ethics. The forum takes place on Wednesday October 12 in the Dean's Conference room 434B, located in Robinson Hall B from 12pm to 1pm.
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Posted on 6 October 2011 | 12:58 pm by Shuchita Madan
Upcoming HAP and CHPRE Seminar Series
The second of the four HAP and CHPRE seminar series will be on Thursday, October 6, at the Johnson Center, 3rd floor, Room F from 3:00-4:00 pm. Dr.Joy Grossman from the Center for Studying Health System Change will present “If You Build It, Will They Come? Physician Use of Health IT to Access Patient Data [...]
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Posted on 6 October 2011 | 12:51 pm by Shuchita Madan
CHPRE Founder Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown Remembered
This post was taken from the College of Health and Human Resources. August 10, 2011 - The CHHS is saddened to report the passing of Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown on August 5, 2011.
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Posted on 26 August 2011 | 2:24 pm by Shuchita Madan