Health and Human Services conduct an independent comprehensive study of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program …

Ninety-five percent of nonelderly people in Minnesota had health insurance in 2001, relating in part to widespread … achievement, providing coverage for low-income children and adults, as well as individuals who have trouble finding insurance in … the private market because of health problems. Together, these programs cover about 11 percent of the state's nonelderly …

suggests room for greater efficiency in care delivery. …

Home-based telemedicine is emerging as a powerful tool that may improve access to health care for people who live in … medically underserved or remote rural areas, or who have limited personal mobility. In particular, a growing number of health … care organizations are using telemedicine to serve Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions, such as congestive heart …

Telemedicine may hold promise for reducing access barriers for chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries. To evaluate the … effectiveness of home telemedicine, Congress mandated a two-phase demonstration to improve primary care for Medicare beneficiaries … the technology; and impacts on access to care, behavioral and physiologic outcomes, health services use, Medicare costs …

reduce health care costs. Using private insurance data as a measure, reference pricing applied to a narrow scope of inpatient … of total spending. When considering reference pricing, employers and health plans would need to weigh the potential …