June 2011 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

An ACO Is Born In Camden, But Can It Flourish In Medicaid?

Across the country, policy experts are heralding accountable care organizations (ACOs) as the way to rethink the delivery of higher quality and more efficient care. Yet Medicaid, which cares for many of the nation’s sickest and highest-cost patients,...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2011 8:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Health IT, Primary Care, States, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Disparities, Medicaid

The Beacon Communities At One Year: The Tulsa Experience

Editor’s note: The federal government’s Beacon Program provides funding to 17 communities that have already made inroads in the development of secure, private, and accurate systems of electronic health record (EHR) adoption and health information exchange...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2011 12:19 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Quality

Post On Health Reform And Medicare Tops May’s HA Blog Most-Read List

Thomas Saving’s and John Goodman’s post on the implications of the Affordable Care Act for Medicare leads the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for May. On the list as well are posts on the hazards of ignoring the lessons of the...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2011 8:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Medicare, Coverage, Comparative Effectiveness, Environmental Health

Saving The Shared Savings Program (ACOs) Part Three: Quality, Payment, And Data Issues

Editor’s Note: This is the third and last installment of a series of blog posts by Ron Klar offering suggestions on how to make the Medicare Shared Savings Program a more viable vehicle for the creation of accountable care organizations. You can...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 9:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Spending, Medicare, Quality

In New Health Affairs: Measuring The Benefits Of Boosting Childhood Vaccines

Two new studies published today in the June issue of Health Affairs project huge benefits from a major ramp-up of vaccine development and delivery over the next 10 years in 72 countries. The studies, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 4:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Primary Care, Global Health

Health Affairs Briefing: New Directions In Systems Innovation

On July 7, 2011, Health Affairs will unveil its July 2011 issue, “New Directions In Systems Innovations.” The issue explores ongoing innovations in health care organization, delivery and financing across a broad front – from Vermont’s...

Published Mon, Jun 27 2011 7:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, States, Coverage, Hospitals, Innovation, Aging

Back From The Brink, But Still Waiting For PTSD Benefits

On Monday, the federal government and the nation marked Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day. In a statement noting the occasion, Health And Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said: “We have a responsibility to help Americans who...

Published Wed, Jun 29 2011 9:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Personal Experience, Mental Health

States And Health IT: Upcoming Conference

As mentioned before on this blog, Health Affairs is the official media sponsor for the upcoming 2011 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit, June 21-23 in Dulles, Virginia. If you are interested in the conference but can’t attend in person, you can...

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 1:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Setting The Record Straight On Drug Shortages

John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) says in a June 8 Health Affairs Blog entry that the Public Health Service 340B drug discount program is part of a “web of [federal] regulations that are preventing life saving drugs...

Published Tue, Jun 21 2011 10:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Payment, Competition, Pharma, Hospitals

Implementing Health Reform: The Appeals Process Amended Rule

Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a series of posts by Timothy Jost on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Earlier posts have analyzed some important guidances, as well as provisions governing state waiver requests, student health plans...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2011 7:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Sen. Menendez: No Way To Make Medicare Premium Support Acceptable

Here’s a brief Q&A between Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Health Affairs Blog. It took place earlier this afternoon during a press call by Senator Menendez, which was coordinated by the office of Senate Majority Leader...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2011 1:31 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics, Spending, Medicare

Briefing: Patient Perspectives On California’s Safety Net

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will change the health care landscape for all safety net providers and those they serve. Blue Shield of California Foundation and Health Affairs are pleased to present results from a new poll by Langer...

Published Mon, Jun 20 2011 6:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, States, Quality, Medicaid

Health Affairs Briefing Reminder: Strategies For The Global ‘Decade Of Vaccines’

Immunizing the world’s children against infectious diseases has dramatically cut childhood death and suffering in recent decades. In 2010, philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates called for a new “Decade of Vaccines” to vault the progress dramatically...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 8:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Global Health, Children, Innovation

Analyzing A Crucial Battle In The Legal War Over Health Reform

For a lawyer, the argument of Florida v. the Department of Health and Human Services before a three judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals on Wednesday, June 8, was a beauty to behold. (For a non-lawyer it was probably tedious, repetitive...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 6:44 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health Care Costs, States, Medicaid, Health Law

New Cardiac Surgery Programs: Improving Access Or Duplicating Services?

With cardiac services contributing 25 to 40 percent of a hospital’s net revenues, do new cardiac surgery programs improve access or exacerbate the duplication of services? To answer this question, the authors of a new Health Affairs Web First article...

Published Mon, Jun 27 2011 12:35 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Spending, Competition, Access, Hospitals

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