How Treatment and Coverage of Drug and Alcohol Addiction is Changing
A quarter of all Americans will deal with a substance abuse issue at some point in their lives. Of those, only about 11-percent will get treatment. The Affordable Care Act may change that. It requires...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act and Minority Outreach: Is the Word Getting Out?
In order to get a better understanding of how Maryland is reaching out to minority populations around the state, we hear from several people engaged in this issue, including Congressman Elijah Cummings...
View ArticleHow The Affordable Care Act Is Changing Mental Health Care In Maryland
On The Checkup: how is mental-health care changing under Obamacare? WYPR’s Mary Rose Madden has investigated, and shares what she’s found.
View ArticleSmall Businesses And The Affordable Care Act
The federal online health insurance exchange has delayed its start for small businesses until November 2014. But, Maryland’s on-line marketplace will start selling insurance to small businesses in...
View ArticleWhat Ails The Maryland Health Exchange?
The director of Maryland’s online health exchange resigned on Friday. On the Checkup, we talk about the challenges the exchange faces and possible solutions.
View ArticleHow Preventive Care is Changing Under the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act requires that insurers provide 45 preventive services to patients free of charge. What does this mean for the health of individual patients? What it could mean for the future...
View ArticleHow Medicaid Expansion Will Shape Maryland Health Care
More than 110,000 Marylanders began getting their health coverage through Medicaid on January 1st . That’s almost six times the number of Marylanders who signed up for private coverage. On The Checkup,...
View ArticleHow Hospital Care Is Changing In Maryland
The federal government is giving Maryland the okay to try a new approach to hospital care. It’s going to change how often people are admitted to the hospital and how hospitals get paid. State officials...
View ArticleHow The Affordable Care Act Is Changing A Clinic For The Uninsured
750,000: That was the estimated number of Marylanders without health insurance as the Affordable Care Act began to rollout. That number has dropped by about 148,000. As of mid-January, about 25,000...
View ArticleHow the Affordable Care Act is Affecting Refugees and Asylees' Health Care
Every year more than 50,000 refugees and asylees enter the United States, and hundreds resettle in Maryland. On today’s edition of The Checkup , we hear from refugees and service providers about the...
View ArticleAre ACOs Changing the Way Doctors Work Together?
Today, on the Checkup, we look at Accountable Care Organizations, or ACOs. Those are groups of independent providers in a particular community who join together to coordinate care—and to save money....
View ArticleAre Fewer Uninsured People Visiting Maryland's Emergency Rooms?
About a third of emergency room visits in Maryland could have been handled in a primary care setting. Will the Affordable Care Act change that... and, if so, when?
View ArticleMaryland Health Exchange Cuts Ties With Its Prime I.T. Contractor
Today, we continue our series, The Checkup, our weekly series on how health care is changing in Maryland. One big change announced yesterday for the state’s online health insurance marketplace: The...
View ArticleNew Incentives For Hospitals and Nursing Homes To Work Together
This is The Checkup, our weekly series about how healthcare is changing in Maryland. One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to change incentives for providers of healthcare, so economic rewards...
View ArticleThe Checkup: How the ACA is Changing Nursing
Under the Affordable Care Act, people are more likely to receive care in community health centers and at home than in hospitals, which means new responsibilities for nurses. As the state does its full...
View ArticleLowering Health Care Spending, One Patient at a Time
The Affordable Care Act’s main goal is to insure the uninsured. But, one other goal: lower the cost of health care. Advances in data collection are giving us a clearer picture of who’s costing...
View ArticleHow Latinos Are Accessing Health Care Under the Affordable Care Act
More than 470,000 Marylanders are of Latino origin, just over 8 percent of the state’s population. Many of them need health insurance. At Baltimore Medical System’s Highlandtown clinic, navigators are...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act: Day After the Deadline
The deadline to sign up for health insurance this year ended last night at midnight. First, we hear from a few people who were considering buying insurance. Then, Sheilah Kast talks with Brad Herring,...
View ArticleHow Will Connecticut's Health Exchange Adapt to Maryland?
Maryland's online insurance marketplace, the health exchange is being scrapped in favor of a system created in Connecticut. So, how will Maryland make sure that this around, things are done right? And...
View ArticleWhat Impact Has The Affordable Care Act Had On Maryland Health Care?
Welcome back to The Checkup, our weekly series on how health care is changing in Maryland. This is our final segment in the series. For seven months, we’ve dug into the details of the Affordable Care...
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