China's policy experimentation on long‐term care insurance: Implications for access

Policy Implications of Affordable Care Act on Us Market Access.

Primary discussions with US private payers and ex-CMS policy experts were conducted to understand key issues for medical products. Methods § On December 23, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced 123 new Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) § The total number of Medicare ACOs ~366 (Health Affairs January 2014) Current Status of ACOs

Equity of access under Korean national long-term care insurance: implications for long-term care reform

BACKGROUND The national long-term care insurance was implemented in July 2008. Few studies have been conducted with representative national survey data since the long-term care insurance was introduced. Therefore, this study examines the extent to which equity in the use of long-term care has been achieved in Korea. METHODS The Aday-Andersen model was used as a conceptual model, based on the ...

Policy Options for Health Insurance and Long-term Care Insurance

Implications of new insurance coverage for access to care, cost-sharing, and reimbursement.

Acceptance of insurance by psychiatrists and the implications for access to mental health care.

IMPORTANCE There have been recent calls for increased access to mental health services, but access may be limited owing to psychiatrist refusal to accept insurance. OBJECTIVE To describe recent trends in acceptance of insurance by psychiatrists compared with physicians in other specialties. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS We used data from a national survey of office-based physicians in t...