August 2011 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Patients Getting Antidepressants More Often From Nonpsychiatrists Without Psychiatric Diagnoses

More doctors who aren’t psychiatrists are offering antidepressants to patients, making these drugs the third most commonly prescribed group of medications in the United States, according to a study in the August issue of Health Affairs. A look at...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2011 11:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Primary Care, Pharma, Mental Health

Health Affairs Briefing: Confronting Costs

On September 8, Health Affairs will release its September 2011 issue, “Confronting Costs.” The issue explores the third element of the famed Three-Part Aim for health care: namely, the objective of lowering costs. Topics to be discussed include chronic...

Published Wed, Aug 10 2011 8:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Competition, Quality

Implementing Health Reform: Medicaid And Exchange Eligibility Determinations

On August 12, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services issued two notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRMs) in its ongoing efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The first addresses eligibility for Medicaid and the Children’s...

Published Sat, Aug 13 2011 4:44 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Spending, Medicaid

Where To For Hospice?

A column by New York Times columnist David Brooks titled “Death and Budgets,” read in combination with a recent report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Medicare Hospices that Focus on...

Published Tue, Aug 30 2011 11:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Chronic Care, End-of-Life Care, Aging

New Health Affairs: U.S. Docs Spend Four Times More On Payer Interactions Than Canadians

U.S. physician practices spend nearly four times as much per physician as doctors in Ontario dealing with health insurers and payers, says a new study in the August issue of Health Affairs, released yesterday. Most of the difference stems from the fact...

Published Fri, Aug 05 2011 7:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Payment, Physicians

Implementing Health Reform: Informing Consumers

One of the most important innovations of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that it dramatically increases and improves the information that consumers have available about health insurance and health care. HHS has already implemented provisions of the ACA...

Published Thu, Aug 18 2011 7:49 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Coverage

A Legal Challenge To CMS’ Reliance On The RUC

This week in a Maryland federal court, six physicians based at the Center for Primary Care in Augusta, GA filed suit against HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and CMS Administrator Donald Berwick. The complaint, spearheaded by Paul Fischer MD with DC-based...

Published Tue, Aug 09 2011 11:28 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Physicians, Medicare, Health Law

Implementing Health Reform: Premium Tax Credits

On August 12, the Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury (Internal Revenue Service) issued three notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) as part of their continuing effort to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposed rules will...

Published Sat, Aug 13 2011 10:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Medicaid

ACO 101: The Basics Of Accountable Care

Regarding the subject of “health care reform” during the past year, it is certain that more has been written about, more conferences have been devoted to, and more consultants have been engaged for the topic of “accountable care organizations” (ACOs)...

Published Mon, Aug 29 2011 11:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health IT, Primary Care, Spending, Medicare, Quality

Risk-Shifting In Health Care And Its Implications: Part Two

Yesterday, in the first installment of a two-part Health Affairs Blog post, Troyen Brennan and Thomas Lee discussed the shifting of risk they see taking place in the health care system, from insurers and employers to provider and patients. In part two...

Published Thu, Aug 25 2011 11:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Physicians, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid

Deficit And Debt Politics: A Wake-Up Call For The Health Care Industry?

Editor’s Note: Below, Jonathan Oberlander analyzes the implications of the recently enacted agreement to increase the nation’s debt ceiling. See also Joe Antos’ analysis of the same topic on Health Affairs Blog. The 2010 Affordable Care...

Published Thu, Aug 04 2011 5:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals

Narrative Matters: Eleanor Clift On Her Husband’s Death And End-Of-Life Issues

In the newest Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, prominent journalist Eleanor Clift writes about her husband Tom Brazaitis and his death from metastatic cancer at age 64. Clift describes the multiple ways in which she and her husband benefited from...

Published Wed, Aug 17 2011 11:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics, Physicians, Medicare, Personal Experience, End-of-Life Care

Risk-Shifting In Health Care And Its Implications: Part One

Editor’s Note: Below, in the first installment of a two-part Health Affairs Blog post, Troyen Brennan and Thomas Lee discuss the shifting of risk they see taking place in the health care system, from insurers and employers to provider and patients...

Published Wed, Aug 24 2011 8:50 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals

July’s Most-Read HA Blog Posts

Timothy Jost’s series of posts on proposed new federal rules for state health insurance exchanges leads July’s list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts. Jon Kingsdale’s article on Massachusetts’ efforts to control health care...

Published Tue, Aug 09 2011 6:44 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Medicaid, Obesity, Effectiveness

Health Spending Projection Spin Cycle: Rinse And Repeat, Or Reset?

One of the annual rituals of Washington’s health policy calendar involves the release of projections for the next ten years of national health spending by actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It then is followed immediately...

Published Thu, Aug 11 2011 9:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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