March 2011 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

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

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

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

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

Proposed Rules For Accountable Care Organizations Unveiled

The Department of Health and Human Services today unveiled proposed regulations on the establishment of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in Medicare. The regulations, which would implement the Medicare Shared Savings program included in the Affordable...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 9:50 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Medicare

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

The Care Span: A New Health Affairs Feature On Long-Term Services And Supports

Major changes lie ahead in the structure and delivery of long-term health care services and supports, accelerated by the Affordable Care Act. Among these are expanded options for people to receive services in their homes and communities; care coordination...

Published Wed, Mar 09 2011 10:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Spending, Quality, Hospitals, End-of-Life Care, Long-Term Care

Health Affairs Briefing: Innovation And Health Care Delivery (Updated)

On Tuesday morning, March 8, please join Health Affairs at the W Hotel Washington for a briefing tied to the release of the March 2011 issue of the journal, “Profiles of Innovation in Health Care Delivery.” You can also follow the briefing on Twitter...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2011 5:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health IT, Innovation, Long-Term Care

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

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

The Real Issue: Controlling All Health Care Costs

The current cry to reduce Federal deficits and debt growth by reducing Medicare and Medicaid entitlements is totally missing the key issue: the need to moderate all health care inflation. This should be the time for a national debate on how to best tackle...

Published Fri, Mar 04 2011 9:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid

March Health Affairs Issue: Innovations In Health Care Delivery

Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government was handed an unprecedented set of tools to forge innovation in health care delivery through the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Now, as the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation begins its...

Published Tue, Mar 08 2011 5:04 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health IT, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Spending, Quality, Innovation

Health Affairs Receives Award From Employers’ Health Group

John Iglehart and Susan Dentzer, Health Affairs’ founding and current editors-in-chief, received the Health Policy Innovation Leadership Award from the National Business Group on Health, a non-profit group of more than 300 large employers. The award was...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 7:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

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

Health Reform And Federalism: Stuart Butler’s View

Back in 2004, Henry Aaron and I authored an article in Health Affairs arguing that granting states sweeping powers to experiment with health reform – within federal guidelines – would be the best way of achieving a bipartisan breakthrough at a time when...

Published Fri, Mar 11 2011 7:23 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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