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Health Policy Brief: Medicare Advantage
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes the provision in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 that will gradually reduce federal payments to the Medicare Advantage program. Roughly one in four of the nation...
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Thu, Jun 16 2011 9:00 AM
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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...
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Tue, Jun 14 2011 1:55 PM
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The ‘Decade Of Vaccines’: Promise And Challenge
Vaccinating children around the world against infectious diseases has saved the lives of millions over the past several decades. Now new opportunities exist to overcome remaining challenges, according to articles in the June 2011 issue of Health Affairs...
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Tue, Jun 14 2011 12:31 PM
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Remembering Barbara Starfield: A Primary Care Champion
Barbara Starfield, a seminal figure in the health services research community who made landmark contributions in primary care and other areas, died suddenly on Friday, June 10, of an apparent heart attack. Health Affairs extends its deepest sympathies...
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Mon, Jun 13 2011 1:02 PM
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Health Affairs Requests Abstracts For Diabetes Issue
Health Affairs plans a thematic issue on the U.S. and global imperative to stem the growing burden of diabetes, which is among the top contributors to the international epidemic of noncommunicable disease. As part of our development process for this issue...
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Fri, Jun 10 2011 1:43 PM
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Most Kids Vaccinated, But Some Parents Still Worry
Most children in the United States are getting regularly scheduled immunizations for infant and childhood diseases. But a new survey shows that some parents remain unpersuaded that all vaccines are safe or even necessary. The survey was published yesterday...
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Fri, Jun 10 2011 5:14 AM
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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...
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Thu, Jun 09 2011 6:44 AM
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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...
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Thu, Jun 09 2011 4:12 AM
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Rx Drug Shortages: Regulation Can Be Deadly
Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s regulatory czar, announced last week that the administration intends to repeal cost-increasing, unnecessary regulations from 30 different agencies. If the administration is serious in this effort, a good place to start...
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Wed, Jun 08 2011 10:35 AM
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HA Vaccine Briefing Tomorrow Available Live On Web
Tomorrow, Thursday June 9, at 8:30 AM at the W Hotel in Washington DC, Health Affairs will hold a briefing in conjunction with the release of its June 2011 issue, “Strategies For The ’Decade of Vaccines.’” A complete line-up of...
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Wed, Jun 08 2011 8:17 AM
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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...
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Tue, Jun 07 2011 8:00 AM
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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...
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Mon, Jun 06 2011 9:03 AM
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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...
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Fri, Jun 03 2011 8:40 AM
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Success Factors For Creating Accountable Care Organizations
Healthcare organizations across the country are learning how to adapt to the concept of an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Having been closely involved in Intermountain Healthcare’s evolution as a prototype ACO, we offer our experience in making...
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Fri, Jun 03 2011 5:15 AM
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Creating Value-Based Incentives For Primary Care
In a remarkable recent interview, Donald Berwick MD, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), eloquently described his vision of value-based health care. Paying for value is an incentive…The underlying idea of improvement...
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Thu, Jun 02 2011 10:25 AM
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