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What We're Reading: Extending Funding for Medicaid Expansion
What we're reading, January 14, 2016: President Obama proposes extending financial assistance for new states expanding Medicaid eligibility; Hillary Clinton goes hard after Bernie Sanders on single-payer healthcare; and health information exchanges reduce repeated imaging procedures.
With the clock counting down President Obama’s last year in office, the administration is trying to sway states that have held out against expanding Medicaid. The president is proposing to extend financial assistance for any state that chooses to extend the eligibility of the program, according to The Wall Street Journal. Currently, the funding is only available to states through 2016, but Obama will ask Congress to include an additional 3 years of full federal funding.
As Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gains on Hillary Clinton, shrinking her lead to just 2 points in Iowa, the debate between the 2 has turned to single-payer healthcare, reported Vox. Sanders is in favor of a single-payer system in the US, which would mean all Americans receive health insurance from the government. However, Clinton is attacking the concept and attempting to convince voters that Sanders’ plans are unrealistic and poorly constructed.
The use of health information exchanges (HIEs) lead to fewer repeated X-rays, ultrasounds, and other imaging tests being ordered. A study of a 13-county region found the use of an HIE reduced the odds of a procedure being repeated within 90 days by 19%, which generated an estimated annual savings of $32,460, according to Healthcare Informatics.
New Research Challenges Assumptions About Hospital-Physician Integration, Medicare Patient Mix
April 22nd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.
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Higher Weight-Adjusted Waist Index Tied to Greater Mortality Risk in Patients With Osteoarthritis
April 23rd 2025Researchers consider the weight-adjusted waist index a more precise predictor of mortality risk in patients with osteoarthritis than traditional obesity measures, like body mass index.
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Personalized Care Key as Tirzepatide Use Expands Rapidly
April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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