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AEI Recommendations for Improving the ACA
With the surprise 2016 Presidential election results the ACA is likley to be going through change in 2017. The attached document is from the AEI, a well-known conservative think tank,…
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Bending the Cost Curve through Market-Based Incentives
This five-page article from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) identifies the main reasons why Obamacare will likely fail to manage health care costs. This article is a clear…
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Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Recent Trends and Future Directions
This 28 page policy brief just released from the NIHCM identifies the way employer health plan coverage is changing in response to the ACA. This article provides a clear set…
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Final Amended Text of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
This downloadable 906 page PDF copy of the ACA is authorized by the GPO and is searchable. This Law has enormous implications for everyone involved in health plan and wellness…
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Final regulations on the ACA wellness programming and incentive rules
This 35 page document is the PDF of the Federal Regulations for June 3, 2013 on the design of wellness incentives that meet the requirements of the ACA. These regulations…
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Government Spending for Health Entitlement Programs
This report provides details on government spending on healthcare. Spending through the two principal health entitlement programs — Medicare and Medicaid — accounts for well over a third of U.S.…
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Health Care Costs: Key Information on Health Care Costs and Their Impacts
This primer gives a brief glimpse of available data on health care costs, and summarizes the impact of spending growth on various parts of society. The National Health Expenditure Accounts…
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Health Care Reform Compliance Looms for Employers
The ACA introduced a new requirement for employers to include Wellness in their Summary of Benefits and Coverage if the Wellness program pays for health services (like preventive screening). Now…
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Ideal Health Plan Design Tool L4-7
The Ideal Health Plan characteristics suggested here are for use in either public or private organizational settings and are appropriate for large, medium or small size employee groups. The Ideal…
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Ideal Health Plan Tool L3-10
The Ideal Health Plan characteristics suggested here are for use in either public or private organizational settings and are appropriate for large, medium or small size employee groups. The Ideal…
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List of Key Wellness Online Resources
Chapman Institute has complied this annotated list of wellness resources for WellCert grads. The listing includes resources on the ACA, prevention medicine, economic statistics for healthcare as well as many…
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Preventive Services Covered by Private Health Plans Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
This report details the requirements in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that private insurers (including self-funded employers) – with the exception of so-called “grandfathered” plans – cover certain preventive services…
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The Affordable Care Act and the Prevention and Public Health Fund Report to Congress for FY2012
This report to congress provides details on the prevention activities undertaken by the Department of Health and Human Services. The health of Americans is influenced by where Americans live, work,…
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The Truth about the Prevention and Public Health Fund
This 9 page PDF explains the status of federal funding for Title IV of the ACA. It details the status of funding for Prevention and Wellness available through federal and…
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Value-Based Insurance Design: Perspectives, Extending the Evidence, and Implications for the Future
This 5 page article from the American Journal of Managed Care describes the new perspectives, evidence and future implications for Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID). This article is one of the…
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We ARE Beginning to Speak With One Voice: Consensus Statement on Wellness Incentives
This write up from AJHP on the consensus perspective on outcomes-based incentive design that first appeared in JOEM in 2012 adds additional focus and insight. Michael O'Donnell provides additional color…
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