Public Sector

To many Americans, health care reform is more about preserving the status quo than it is about change. Surveys show that most Americans who have insurance like the coverage they have.

In order to improve patient care and clinical outcomes, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure continuity of care, North Memorial decided to move to an Epic electronic medical records system. Discover how Ingenix Consulting provided project management, planning, training, and implementation services for North Memorial's Epic deployment and ongoing engagement.

The chartbook takes a closer look at the health spending for individuals with chronic conditions and functional impairments living in the community.

Despite federal subsidies of up to $44,000 per physician and additional subsidies for hospitals to help pay for the new technology, many physicians and hospitals may find the costs of converting to EMRs still significantly outweigh the benefits, according to a sophisticated actuarial model developed by Ingenix Consulting. Get our experts' take on the stimulus and see what it means for you.

Review the Health Reform and Employer presentation given by the Lewin Group to Cleveland Health Action Council.

The purpose of this analysis was to compare the effects of two major proposals to reform the U.S. health care system. These include the Senate Leadership “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” and the “Affordable Health Care for America Act” passed by the House of Representatives.

The Lewin Group, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) AIDS Institute, has conducted an evaluation of New York State’s Medicaid HIV Special Needs Plan (HIV SNP) program.

To make health care reform possible many have argued that we must find savings in the existing system to offset the costs of new programs. This report examines recent literature documenting the major drivers of health care costs in the U.S. and identifies where new policies and initiatives could reduce costs without adversely affecting quality or access to medically necessary care. Learn more.

The American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, as amended by the Energy and Commerce Committee, will require all Americans to have health insurance if passed. Our study estimates the impact this act would have on coverage and spending for the federal, state and local governments, private employers and consumers. Read the report to learn how it might impact you.

We recently released a study of the July 15th draft of The American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (also known as the tri-committee bill), which includes a public plan that would compete with private insurance for enrollment. We estimated that enrollment in the public plan under the July 15th draft would reach 103.4 million people compared with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate of 11 to 12 million people. In this article we explain why the CBO and Lewin estimates are so dramatically different. See how.