Commonwealth Fund2 天
Do Medicare Advantage Provider Networks Change the Way Beneficiaries Use Health Care?
Medicare Advantage plans are popular, but some have limited provider networks, while and others require high cost sharing for ...
Commonwealth Fund6 年
Public Programs Are Using Incentives to Promote Healthy Behavior
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Among states, there is growing ...
Commonwealth Fund11 年
Rachel Nuzum
Rachel Nuzum, M.P.H., is senior vice president for Policy at the Commonwealth Fund, working closely with policymakers at the state and federal level. Ms. Nuzum is responsible for developing and ...
Commonwealth Fund4 年
How does universal health coverage work?
It took 10 years of political tension to establish Australia’s universal public health insurance program, known as Medicare. A universal health care bill was initially introduced in Parliament in 1973 ...
Commonwealth Fund6 年
Australian–American Health Policy Fellowship
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here.
Commonwealth Fund5 年
2018 Annual Report
2018 was a special year for the Commonwealth Fund. The foundation established by Anna Harkness a month before the close of World War I celebrated its centennial — one hundred years of advancing access ...
Commonwealth Fund12 年
Improving Population Health Through Communitywide Partnerships
Many quality improvement techniques—including the promotion of evidence-based treatments and well-coordinated care—can improve health outcomes, but their influence is often limited by factors beyond ...
Commonwealth Fund6 年
Case Study: Lowering Health Care Costs Through Energy Efficiency
Summary: Concerned that it was wasting financial resources that would be better spent on health care, a Wisconsin-based health system embarked on an ambitious plan to reduce its energy use by more ...
Commonwealth Fund12 年
Health Care Price Transparency: Can It Promote High-Value Care?
Summary: Prices for health care services vary significantly among providers, even for common procedures, and it's often difficult for patients to determine their out-of-pocket costs before receiving ...
Commonwealth Fund9 天
How Medicaid Helps Your State
More than 79 million people are enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, making them the largest health insurers in the United States. The main source of coverage for ...
Commonwealth Fund5 年
Jesse C. Baumgartner
Former Senior Research Associate, Health Care Coverage and Access & Tracking Health System Performance, The Commonwealth Fund ...
Commonwealth Fund7 年
Selected Health and System Statistics
Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.