March 2011 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Transplant Proposal Provides Model For Reform Debate

For the past two years, debate as to whether health reform would result in rationing has underscored the contradiction between the health care Americans would like to have and what we’re actually willing to pay for it. One may note that the terms budgeting...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2011 12:18 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Bioethics

Medicare Advantage: Facts, Fallacies, And The Future

Medicare Advantage (MA) has been at the center of partisan debate on the tradeoff between preserving Medicare solvency and protecting consumer choice. CMS’s recent release of preliminary payment policies for Medicare health plans — that is, plans...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 12:28 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Competition

Pioneering Health Reform: Bringing Knowledge And Innovation To The Field

National health care reform passed in 2010 turns health care markets into laboratories for innovation—with calls to implement key changes to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and affordability of health care and increase value for the health care...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 11:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Spending, Quality, Innovation

Accountable Care Organizations: Our Field Of Dreams?

Every year, we look forward to Spring Training. The return of ballplayers to Florida and Arizona provides a sense of optimism that anything is possible in the coming year. However, in releasing the regulations for the shared savings program, is the Centers...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 7:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Physicians, States, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid

Why Is There A Problem With Health Care Quality?

Editor’s Note: In addition to John Goodman (photo and bio above), this post was coauthored by Gerald Musgrave and Devon Herrick. Go to the web site of the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) and you will learn that DMC facilities rank among the “nation’s...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 10:08 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Competition, Quality, Hospitals

Camden’s Roadmap To Reform

In the eyes of some, health reform threatens to burn down the old house of the American health system before it has built the country a new one. There are many who will not mourn the passing of the old, but it is fair to say that most health care leaders...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 11:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Health IT, Primary Care, Chronic Care

The Three Most-Read GrantWatch Blog Posts during February 2011

Below, we list the three most-read posts of the month. Take a look in case you missed one of these when the original tweet or e-alert was sent out. 1. “Update on What Foundations Have Been Doing in Oral Health Care” (Jan. 27, 2011). Read about the efforts...

Published Mon, Mar 07 2011 12:35 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Primary Care, Children, Nurses, Obesity, GrantWatch, Health Professions, Health Disparities, Oral Health, Social Media

Pre-Tax Purchase Of OTC Drugs: A Prescription For Compromise

One of the most contentious issues in drafting health reform legislation was the tax treatment of health care expenses. From modifying the tax exclusion for employer-provided health coverage to imposing new fees on medical treatments and products, resistance...

Published Mon, Mar 21 2011 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Physicians, Health IT, Chronic Care, Spending, Pharma, Patient Safety

Accountable Care Organizations: A Framework For Evaluating Proposed Rules

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Office of the Inspector General, the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Internal Revenue Service have released proposed regulations for...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 6:21 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Spending, Medicare, Quality

World Health Care Congress Convenes April 4-6

The 8th Annual World Health Care Congress (WHCC) will convene April 4-6, 2011 in Washington D.C. with more than 1,800 health care leaders to address the challenges of health care cost, quality and delivery. Health Affairs is a supporting publication for...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 11:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Physicians, Health IT, Pharma, Hospitals, Innovation, Technology

What Employers Don’t Spend For Health Will Cost Them

Recently it was reported that the federal government has issued more than a thousand waivers concerning various provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Some of the earliest and most high-profile waiver requests involved the McDonald’s restaurant chain...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 10:04 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Workforce

A Challenge to Congress: A Critical Care Blueprint

While Congress’ recent efforts to repeal the healthcare reform legislation signed by President Obama last year may have been ‘dead on arrival,’ efforts to dismantle the bill continue, and likely will for months to come. Rather than simply repeat the same...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Workforce, Hospitals, End-of-Life Care

ACOs, Medical Homes, And Reform: A Crucial Consensus

With the federal government poised to propose rules governing accountable care organizations, a broad array of public and private health care stakeholders has laid out a consensus on how to use ACOs and patient-centered medical homes to move toward the...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 5:50 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Health IT, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Access

Health Reform And Federalism: Henry Aaron’s View

Seven years ago, Stuart Butler and I joined together, a conservative/liberal “odd couple,” to endorse the idea that states should be empowered to take the lead on health reform. As with many positions endorsed by strange bedfellows, our reasons...

Published Fri, Mar 11 2011 7:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States

The Road Ahead For The New Health IT Coordinator

Editor’s Note” As David Blumenthal prepares to step down as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, where does the United States stand in the continuing effort to promote widespread adoption of electronic health records...

Published Fri, Mar 25 2011 8:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Health IT, Spending, Workforce, Quality, Innovation

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