- HealthCare_Waste19: Finding and Addressing Waste to Improve Value in Health Care slideshow developed for the ACH Transformation and Alignment Call on March 25, 2019
- Empowering Patients and Unleashing Innovations: eMedicare for Today and Furture Generations: Public service is a privilege. The primary mission of the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is to deliver on President Trump’s commitment to strengthen and modernize Medicare for the millions of Americans who depend on us every day.
- Protecting the Health and Safety of all Americans: Despite stringent safeguards, alarming stories continue to be reported about people, including some of our most vulnerable individuals, who have experienced harm in healthcare settings that is devastating to these patients and their families.
- First, Do No Harm, Calculating Health Care Waste in Washington State: The Washington Health Alliance (the Alliance) utilized the Milliman Med Insight Health Waste Calculator to produce this report, our second analysis of low-value health care services in Washington State. The Washington Health Alliance maintains an All-Payer-Claims-Database (APCD) for Washington, including over 4 million insured lives (commercial and Medicaid).
- New Part D Policies Address Opioid Epidemic: Early last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a roadmapoutlining our efforts to address the national opioid epidemic. The roadmap details our three-pronged approach, including prevention of new cases of opioid use disorder (OUD), expanding access to treatment for patients who have already developed OUD, and using data from across the country to better target our prevention and treatment activities.
- Heaps of Health Care Waste, in Washington State They are still sifting through it: Waste in health care is not new, but attention to it is rapidly gaining momentum. The Institute of Medicine provided the wake-up call in its 2012 report, estimating that about 30% of health care expenditures are unnecessary. Since then, a spate of research has backed up the IOM’s calculations.
- Dementia Mortality in the United States, 2000-2017: Dementia, including Alzheimer disease and other dementias, presents a major public health challenge in the United States. Dementia is characterized by memory impairment and cognitive decline.
- Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, 2011-2016: Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that has been involved increasingly in drug overdose deaths. In 2011 and 2012, fentanyl was involved in roughly 1,600 drug overdose deaths each year, but from 2012 through 2014, the number of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl more than doubled each year.