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	<title>Health Affairs Blog &#187; 2010 &#187; April</title>
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		<title>How To Simplify Medical Billing And Reduce Costs</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/30/how-to-simplify-medical-billing-and-reduce-costs/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-to-simplify-medical-billing-and-reduce-costs</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As every American knows, the process of billing third-party entities for health care services is complex and time-consuming, for the patient as well as for the provider.  According to the authors of an article published yesterday in Health Affairs, physicians use nearly 12 percent of their net revenue to cover the costs of these administrative charges. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Health Wonk Review</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/29/the-health-wonk-review/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-health-wonk-review</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare Economist hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Jason Shafrin ably presents the latest in quality health policy blogging, using a theme that we here in the Washington D.C. area have become sadly unfamiliar with: the NBA playoffs.]]></description>
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		<title>Health Affairs Blog Roundtable Transcript: CMS And Health Reform</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/29/health-affairs-blog-roundtable-transcript-cms-and-health-reform/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=health-affairs-blog-roundtable-transcript-cms-and-health-reform</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=4818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Much of the burden of implementing the newly passed health reform legislation will fall on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency must handle this task while continuing to perform its already daunting duties involving Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and many other functions. How well equipped is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sebelius To Keynote Health Affairs Briefing</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/29/sebelius-to-keynote-health-affairs-briefing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sebelius-to-keynote-health-affairs-briefing</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primary Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will keynote the Health Affairs May 4 briefing &#8220;Reinventing Primary Care.&#8221; The briefing will take place from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.  It will highlight the journal&#8217;s May issue, a thematic volume on primary care that will be released that day. You may obtain more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Scores: Juicing Up The Mandate</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/28/credit-scores-juicing-up-the-mandate/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=credit-scores-juicing-up-the-mandate</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/28/credit-scores-juicing-up-the-mandate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Power</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consumers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans carry large amounts of consumer debt.  They are directly affected by credit scores, because the scores affect the interest rates they pay, and the amount of credit they are offered.  One late payment of a bill:  a 60- to 110-point score reduction.  Simply hitting the limit on a credit card:  a 10- to 45-point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Affairs Briefing: Reinventing Primary Care</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/27/health-affairs-briefing-reinventing-primary-care/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=health-affairs-briefing-reinventing-primary-care</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/27/health-affairs-briefing-reinventing-primary-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=4813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The May 2010 issue of Health Affairs examines what it will take to reinvent primary care in the United States. Operational, payment, regulatory, legal, and educational reforms will be necessary to improve care and achieve savings —and to prepare for the influx of millions of Americans who will be insured for the first time as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Berwick On Patient-Centeredness And More</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/23/don-berwick-on-patient-centeredness-and-more/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=don-berwick-on-patient-centeredness-and-more</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/23/don-berwick-on-patient-centeredness-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=4831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an essay in Health Affairs last year, Don Berwick, President Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, surveys the debate in the health policy community over how the principle of &#8220;patient-centeredness&#8221; should be defined and implemented. In his piece, titled “What &#8216;Patient-Centered&#8217; Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist,&#8221; Berwick offers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Berwick&#8217;s Vision: The Triple Aim</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/20/don-berwicks-vision-the-triple-aim/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=don-berwicks-vision-the-triple-aim</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/20/don-berwicks-vision-the-triple-aim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=4794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, President Obama made it official: He nominated Don Berwick, president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has been without an administrator since October 2006. Berwick, a pediatrician who is also a professor at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/15/latest-health-wonk-review-is-up/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=latest-health-wonk-review-is-up</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/15/latest-health-wonk-review-is-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is of course tax day, but over at the HealthBlawg, David Harlow marks the day in happier fashion, offering the best in health policy blogging in the latest Health Wonk Review. In an entertaining edition titled &#8220;Block That Metaphor,&#8221; David works in Ray Kroc, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bessie Smith, and the Titanic, along with a cornucopia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imaging Technology Adoption: The Impact Of Self-Referral</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/04/15/imaging-technology-adoption-the-impact-of-self-referral/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=imaging-technology-adoption-the-impact-of-self-referral</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: In October 2009, Health Affairs published two papers on factors driving imaging utilization. One paper, by Jacqueline Baras and Laurence Baker, analyzes the relationship between MRI supply and care for fee-for-service Medicare patients with low back pain. It finds that increases in MRI supply are related to higher use of both low back MRI and [...]]]></description>
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