11/9/2011 - This cross-country survey finds adults with complex medical conditions, including those with serious or chronic illness, injury, or disability, benefit from receiving their care from a medical home.
8/8/2011 - In the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey, nearly all of the experts surveyed believed traditional safety-net health care providers will continue to play crucial roles even after the Affordable Care Act is implemented.
5/23/2011 - In the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey, more than 80 percent of opinion leaders said states should be allowed to implement key provisions of the Affordable Care Act early—like expanding Medicaid eligibility to cover more low-income families and creating insurance exchanges with premium subsidies.
4/6/2011 - Seven of 10 U.S. adults think the country's health care system needs to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt, according to this new survey.
3/16/2011 - The survey of 3,033 adults, conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from July 2010 to November 2010, finds that in the last two years a majority of men and women who lost a job that had health benefits became uninsured.
2/22/2011 - In the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey, more than nine of 10 leaders in health care and health care policy said they believed the general direction set by the Affordable Care Act is appropriate, with nearly seven of 10 favoring implementing the law with little or no change.
11/18/2010 - This survey finds that adults in the United States are far more likely than those in 10 other industrialized nations to go without health care because of costs, have trouble paying medical bills, encounter high medical bills even when insured, and have disputes with their insurers or discover insurance wouldn't pay as they expected.
11/8/2010 - In this Commonwealth Fund–supported study, researchers asked physicians and nurses to identify what they considered to be the most frequent and most severe patient harms occurring in intensive care units and in general surgery.
In the Literature
10/25/2010 - In the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey, experts voice support for moving away from the current method of negotiating health care payments and toward all-payer rate setting, in which a government authority sets the rates, or an all-payer system of jointly negotiating rates for all payers.
9/13/2010 - A Commonwealth Fund-supported study found many of the criteria available to patients when selecting a physician—including years of experience, paid malpractice claims, and medical school rankings—are not associated with higher quality care.
In the Literature
8/19/2010 - The authors of this issue brief find that quality improvement initiatives are rarely reviewed by an institutional review board or another independent body charged specifically with ethical oversight.
Issue Brief
8/11/2010 - This Commonwealth Fund-supported study found that large physician organizations have been slow to adopt practices that improve quality and reduce the cost of care for the chronically ill, and will likely require external incentives and internal reforms to spur their adoption.
In the Literature
8/5/2010 - In a special supplement to the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, The Commonwealth Fund's Karen Davis, Ph.D., and Kristof Stremikis, M.P.P., make the case for reforming U.S. health care financing and delivery to improve the accessibility of primary care and ensure accountability for that care throughout the health system.
Literature Abstract
7/26/2010 - Nearly nine of 10 leaders in health care and health care policy believe current financial interests and lack of incentives for integration are barriers to the growth of accountable care systems, according to the latest Health Care Opinion leaders survey. Also see blog posts by HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius and former U.S. Senator David Durenberger.
Data Brief
7/26/2010 - Nearly nine of 10 leaders in health care and health care policy believe current financial interests and lack of incentives for integration are significant barriers to the growth of accountable care systems.