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Big Business, Little Data

A growing number of Californians are being sent to ambulatory surgery centers for a wide variety of procedures, yet little is known about the care they deliver because reporting is not required.

And the Winner Is...

See how human-centered designers answered our challenge to encourage more people to complete advance directives and document their end-of-life wishes.

Ready or Not

Even with new federal resources to help, a study finds that communities with weaker safety-net systems are lagging in preparations for health reform.

Health Care Reform

Monday, March 12, 2012

Report Details Ways To Bolster Safety-Net Hospitals

Last week, the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System released a report offering recommendations for how policymakers can alter reimbursement to safety-net hospitals once provisions of the health reform law take effect. The report was prepared by Manatt Health Solutions.



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