April 2011 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Will Price Competition Lead To Quality Competition?

Editor’s Note: In addition to John Goodman (photo and bio above), this post was coauthored by Gerald Musgrave and Devon Herrick. In our third-party-payer health insurance system the price for care is typically set by entities external to the doctor-patient...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 6:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Competition, Quality, Hospitals

The Year Of The Family Caregiver — In What Country?

President Obama has begun his campaign for re-election in 2012. Several Republicans have declared their intention to consider the possibility of running. Meanwhile, implementation of health care reform proceeds slowly, with threats of defunding and legal...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 12:34 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Payment, Chronic Care, Aging

The Proposed Accountable Care Organization Antitrust Guidance: A First Look

Editor’s note: This post, by Joe Miller, is part of a series of Health Affairs Blog posts examining the proposed rules and guidelines implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program, issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2011 12:11 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Competition, Hospitals, Health Law

ACOs: Improved Care Or Roadblocks To Innovation?

Some debates about health care policy represent black and white choices. But others are a more nuanced shade of grey: the new proposals could turn out well, or not so well, depending on how they are implemented. One such reform getting broad-based attention...

Published Mon, Apr 25 2011 11:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Chronic Care, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Innovation, Technology

Look Carefully: Medicare’s Provenge National Coverage Decision

Editor’s Note: The authors of the post below, Dan Mendelson and Tanisha Carino, also wrote an earlier post on the initial decision of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to undertake a national coverage review of the cancer drug Provenge...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2011 9:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Pharma, Technology, Effectiveness

Vouchers Or Premium Support: What’s In A Name?

In the mid-1990s, a number of health care analysts and some elected officials, worried about projected growth of Medicare spending, suggested replacing Medicare with flat dollar payments to Medicare beneficiaries. These payments could be used to buy private...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2011 1:56 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Where’s The Patient In The Patient-Centered Medical Home?

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has grabbed the limelight as a new model of health care that offers an alternative to fragmented, impersonal and wasteful care that has become the norm throughout much of the U.S. The PCMH model promises each patient...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 10:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Physicians, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality, Nurses

Health Policy Brief: Unreasonable Rate Increases

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes a new requirement for reviewing “unreasonable” health insurance rate increases. A provision of the Affordable Care Act requires such reviews for individual...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2011 1:28 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Conference To Focus On States And Health IT

Health information technology can be a catalyst for the transformation of American health care, and the states have a major role to play when it comes to health IT, and indeed all aspects of health reform. That state role is the focus of the 2011 State...

Published Fri, Apr 29 2011 1:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health IT, States

Comparative Effectiveness Research: How Can It Change Practice?

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is designed to increase the number of U. S. citizens with access to health insurance. Along with augmented access to health insurance and hopefully health care for millions of the currently uninsured...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2011 6:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Comparative Effectiveness

Health Policy Brief: Improving Quality

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the ongoing need to improve the quality and safety of health care provided in the United States. Despite some progress toward goals set a decade ago following...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 1:24 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Quality, Disparities, Patient Safety

New Narrative Matters Recording On iTunes U

Health Affairs today adds a new Medical Education recording to its free collection of Narrative Matters essays on iTunes U. The account was written by Fitzhugh Mullan, a physician and clinical professor of pediatrics and public health at the George Washington...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 10:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Workforce, Personal Experience, Children, Technology, Patient Safety, Aging

Accountable Care Organizations: An Opportunity To Transform Care

The latest study, out last week, shows one in three patients in the hospital may experience a medical error—an incidence almost ten times higher than previously assumed. Health care costs still make up approximately 17 percent of GDP—about $2.5 trillion...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2011 3:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Spending, Competition, Quality, Patient Safety

Request For Abstracts: Health Care Disparities

Health Affairs plans a cluster of papers on the continuing disparities in health care access and outcomes for minority and vulnerable populations in the United States for October, 2011. We hope to include papers that both illuminate past developments...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 12:49 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Disparities

Leighton Ku On Medicaid In Health Wonk Review

Over at the Incidental Economist, Don Taylor, Aaron Carroll, and Austin Frakt present the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Among the posts highlighted by this trio is Leighton Ku’s Health Affairs Blog post on Medicaid. As the Wonk Review...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2011 2:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog, Medicaid

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