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The Death of Health Insurers? Don't Start the Funeral Just Yet

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on February 20, 2012

In late January, just after my fellow instructors and I had led our students at the U-M School of Public Health in a discussion of the complexity of health coverage, and the difficulty of actually doing what health insurers do given the American system of financing health care, the New York times ran an opinion piece by Ezekiel Emanuel and Jeffrey Liebman that started like this:

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ACOs: What Will They Really Be?

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on June 27, 2011

Sixty-five quality indicators? Retrospectively attributed patient populations? Risk after the fact? Significant management and financial investment required with uncertain payback?

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What do we mean when we say "population health"?

Posted by Nancy Baum on April 25, 2011

Lately I’ve noticed a resurgence of the term “population health” in the health policy literature. It seems to me that the term is being used differently today than in the past, and I wonder how that might affect our ability to actually affect and improve population health.

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Can ACOs Create a High Performing Healthcare System in America?

Posted by Tom Simmer, MD on October 18, 2010

The idea of the “Accountable Care Organization” (ACO) appears to have taken hold well in advance of a clear understanding of what these organizations might be or how they will fit into the overall health care system.

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Physicians: To employ or not to employ – that is the question!

Posted by Robert Milewski on July 19, 2010

While my personal thoughts frequently center around issues such as "being,” on a professional level I have probably given more thought to the issue of physician employment than any other.

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The Paradox of Accountable Care Organizations

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on May 3, 2010

In the run up to health care reform, there was considerable discussion and advocacy for the idea of encouraging the implementation of something called accountable care organization (ACOs). Count me as a hope-to-be proved-wrong skeptic of this idea.

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