Daily Report Blog

The 4/26/12 CQ HealthBeat reported that CMS has released a final rule to allow frail and disabled Medicaid enrollees to more easily receive services outside of nursing homes as well as a demonstration program to test preventive and monitoring home visits for chronically ill patients. 

The New York Times reported on 4/29/12 that the growth of health spending has slowed substantially in the last few years, due in large part to the recession, but also from changing behaviors by consumers and providers of health care—suggesting that the lower rates of growth might persist when the economy picks up.

A new study from The Commonwealth Fund​ finds that patients in the U.S. do not receive "notably superior" care compared with our peers internationally, despite health expenditures totaling nearly $8,000 per person in 2009—one-third to two-thirds more than in 12 other advanced nations.