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Health Policy

September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic

Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.

The Value of Clinical Practice Guidelines as Malpractice "Safe Harbors"

April 1, 2012 | Issue Brief

This paper from the Urban Institute discusses the promise of clinical practice guidelines as medical liability "safe harbors." The paper examines how guidelines can protect providers, how they would prevent defensive medicine, and challenges and hurdles in designing and applying such guidelines.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

February 1, 2012 | Issue Brief

This summary paper provides a status report on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Congress established the Innovation Center in the ACA primarily to test new payment and delivery models.

Eliminating the Individual Mandate

January 1, 2012 | Issue Brief

This issue brief is funded by RWJF as part of its Quick Strike Series and presents an analysis of the controversial individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act.

State Progress Toward Health Reform Implementation

January 1, 2012 | Issue Brief

This issue brief examines whether there is a correlation between the progress that states have made toward establishing the health insurance exchanges called for under ACA, and the expected benefits for state residents.

Accountable Care Organizations in Medicare and the Private Sector

November 2, 2011 | Issue Brief

This policy paper examines the latest developments in accountable care organizations (ACOs), including a look at the final regulations on ACOs issued in October 2011 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).