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Coordinating And Integrating Care For Safety Net Patients: Lessons From Six Communities, Leighton C. Ku, Marsha Regenstein, Peter Shin, Holly Mead, Alice R. Levy, Kate Buchanan, Fraser Rothenberg Byrne
Coordinating And Integrating Care For Safety Net Patients: Lessons From Six Communities, Leighton C. Ku, Marsha Regenstein, Peter Shin, Holly Mead, Alice R. Levy, Kate Buchanan, Fraser Rothenberg Byrne
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
This report examines efforts to improve the coordination of health care among safety net providers in six communities (Austin, TX; Brooklyn, NY; Indianapolis, IN; Marshfield, WI; San Francisco, CA; and St. Louis, MO), based on case study site visits and a roundtable discussion. Across the communities, we identified three approaches to improving coordination: (1) collaboration of providers using a coordinating organization, (2) coordination facilitated by Medicaid managed care plans, and (3) development of highly integrated care systems. These represent models that could be used by different communities, based on their local circumstances. Successful development of coordination approaches involved shared commitment …
Examining The Evidentiary Basis Of Congress's Commerce Clause Power To Address Individuals' Health Insurance Status, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Leighton C. Ku, Paula M. Lantz, Holly Mead, Michal Mcdowell
Examining The Evidentiary Basis Of Congress's Commerce Clause Power To Address Individuals' Health Insurance Status, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Leighton C. Ku, Paula M. Lantz, Holly Mead, Michal Mcdowell
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
Chief among the issues that the United States Supreme Court considers in United States Department of Health and Human Services et al. v Florida et al. is the questionof whether Congress has the constitutional power to apply a “minimum essential coverage requirement” on most nonelderly Americans. Opponents of the provision (referred to under the Act as the “Individual Responsibility” requirement) argue that compelling individuals to buy affordable health insurance coverage exceeds Congressional powers. By contrast, the United States Department of Justice and supporters of the law assert that the minimum coverage requirement is consistent with a long line of Supreme …