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1. Share of Cost, The Importance Of Timing In Ensuring Healthy Brain Development Share of Cost, The Importance Of Timing In Ensuring Healthy Brain Development...
2. Lessons For The New CMS Innovation Center From The Medicare Health Support Program The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act establishes a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The center is intended to enhance the CMS’s role in promoting much-needed improvements in payment and service delivery. Lessons from the Medicare Health Support Program, a chronic care pilot program […]...
3. How The Center For Medicare And Medicaid Innovation Should Test Accountable Care Organizations [Payment & Delivery] The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act establishes a national voluntary program for accountable care organizations (ACOs) by January 2012 under the auspices of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The act also creates a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the CMS. We propose that the CMS allow flexibility and tiers […]...
4. Joint Statement On The European Union – United States Development Dialogue On the 14 June, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) met to discuss cooperation and collaboration on development assistance in the second US-EU High Level Consultative Group Meeting since the 2009 re-launch of the US-EU Development Dialogue....
5. Share of Cost, For Autistic Children, Early Intervention May Change Development Trajectory For Later Symptoms Of Disorder Share of Cost, For Autistic Children, Early Intervention May Change Development Trajectory For Later Symptoms Of Disorder: Early intervention for children with autism, as young as 6 months of age, may change the development trajectory for later symptoms of the disorder according to a research project being spearheaded by the MIND Institute at the University […]...
6. 2011 State of the Art Conference on Postsecondary Education Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities – November 3 & 4 The State of the Art Conference on Postsecondary Education and Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities will be held on November 3 – 4, 2011 in Fairfax, VA. Colleges and universities, researchers, program staff, parents and self-advocates will discuss the current state of policies, research and practice in the field. Check our share of cost site for additional […]...
7. No gold left in the Golden State, share of cost Recovery, or at least stabilization, may be the watch words on Wall Street and in private industry, but for municipalities in California, it’s still very much the darkest hour.  As Ryan Gabrielson of CaliforniaWatch reports that seven different L.A. County municipalities have approached the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department about having the sheriffs take over […]...
8. Medtronic Announces $750,000 In Funding To Support Healthcare Infrastructure Development In Haiti Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced today $750,000 in grants through the Medtronic Foundation to support continued healthcare infrastructure development in Haiti. Partners in Health will receive $500,000 to help complete construction of a public hospital in the Central Plateau city of Mirebalais....
9. U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and Marin County Agreement Will Promote Affordable Housing for Minorities & People with Disabilities U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and Marin County Agreement Will Promote Affordable Housing for Minorities & People with Disabilities...
10. Building Regulatory And Operational Flexibility Into Accountable Care Organizations And ‘Shared Savings’ The Affordable Care Act created accountable care organizations (ACOs), which will be a new part of Medicare as of January 2012, together with a “shared savings program” that will modify how these organizations will be paid to care for patients. Accountable care organizations have the potential to lower costs, improve the quality of care, facilitate delivery […]...
11. State/Federal Partnership Has Reduced Illegal Tobacco Sales To Minors To An All-time Low A new report on the Synar Amendment program – a federal and state partnership aimed at ending illegal tobacco sales to minors – shows that all the states and the District of Columbia have continued to meet their goals of curtailing sales of tobacco to underage youth (those under 18)....
12. Too big to succeed: the new national security state “The effort to justify its budget often affects the way an agency does business.” That’s how Charles Peters explained the growth of federal bureaucracies in his book How Washington Really Works, a guide to politics and government in the nation’s capital.  Peters’ description is borne out by the Washington Post’s exhaustive series, “Top Secret America,” […]...
13. DeepBrain Study Shows That Thinking About God Reduces Distress – But Only For Believers Thinking about God may make you less upset about making errors, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers measured brain waves for a particular kind of distress-response while participants made mistakes on a test....
14. Memo To Innovation Center: ‘We’re So Glad You’re Here’ Why not leave us a note on any item you have related to our blog… Thanks....