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PEPFAR’s Declining Investment In HIV/AIDS Treatment
Since its inception in 2003, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has saved millions of lives through providing anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR has been essential in moving overall coverage levels...
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Tue, Nov 29 2011 11:49 AM
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A ‘SuperHero’ Edition Of The Health Wonk Review
Joe Paduda offers a “SuperHero” edition of the Health Wonk Review on his blog Managed Care Matters. Joe presents a nice collection of health policy blogging, including a series of posts on the Medicare Shared Savings Program final rule and...
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Tue, Nov 01 2011 9:28 AM
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The Importance Of The Individual Mandate: A Response To Sheils And Haught
When the Lewin Group speaks, people listen. In 2009 Lewin projected that a public plan option could reduce private insurance coverage by two-thirds, a finding that was used to strip the public option from the reform law. Knowing this impact, it sent shivers...
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Fri, Nov 04 2011 9:26 AM
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Physician Advice Through RUC On Valuing Services Helps Medicare, Primary Care
Editor’s Note: There are ongoing legal and policy debates regarding the role of the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) in advising the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on relative Medicare payment rates for different types of...
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Tue, Nov 15 2011 8:25 AM
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After CLASS: A Proposed Long-Term Care Insurance System
Editor’s note: A newly updated Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides more information on the CLASS Act and where we stand now regarding the need to provide affordable coverage for long-term services...
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Thu, Nov 17 2011 11:39 AM
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Media Partnership: AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference
Attend AcademyHealth’s National Health Policy Conference (NHPC) to hear directly from state policymakers, analysts, and practitioners about how they are facing those challenges and seizing new opportunities in a post-ACA environment. The 2012 meeting...
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Mon, Nov 21 2011 10:27 AM
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Variations In Medicare Inpatient Surgery Payments Strengthen Case For Bundling
Medicare payments for four common types of inpatient surgery—hip replacement, coronary artery bypass grafting, back surgery, and colon removal— and their follow-up care can vary among hospitals by 49 percent to 130 percent. The result is that payments...
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Mon, Nov 07 2011 2:14 PM
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Health Affairs Blog Most-Read List For October
October’s list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts is led by Maribeth Shannon’s piece on the challenges of getting consumers involved in directing their health care. Several posts on the Medicare Shared Savings Program (ACOs) final rule...
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Thu, Nov 10 2011 12:36 PM
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Innovations Engage Private Providers In Low- And Middle-Income Countries
In a rural town in western Uganda, Nagasha struggled to find the money to pay for her baby’s delivery at a faith-based hospital. She was forced to sell part of her harvest and her husband had to work overtime to come up with the 20,000 Ugandan Shillings...
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Mon, Nov 28 2011 9:21 AM
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Uwe Reinhardt Confirmed For Health Affairs November Issue Release
Uwe Reinhardt will speak at the release event for the November issue of Health Affairs. Reinhardt, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and the author of an article in the issue, will offer a presentation titled “An...
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Fri, Nov 04 2011 10:16 AM
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High Court To Review ACA’s Minimum Coverage Requirement, Medicaid Expansion
Today, November 14, 2011, the Supreme Court decided to review a decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals striking down the minimum coverage requirement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as unconstitutional. The case will probably be argued before...
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Mon, Nov 14 2011 1:16 PM
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MedPAC’s SGR Solution: Bad Medicine For A Chronic Problem
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is the closest thing Congress has to adult supervision on important health policy questions. The Commission commands bipartisan respect both for its record of sound policy advice and for its leadership...
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Wed, Nov 16 2011 12:05 PM
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The Super Committee: Less Important Than Meets The Eye
The effort to cut federal budget deficits resembles nothing so much as the old movie serials in which each week the hero ran a gantlet of perils the last of which threatened imminent death or dismemberment. Seven days later, the intrepid adventurer would...
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Sat, Nov 19 2011 8:48 AM
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Accountable Care Organization Antitrust Guidance: Will Consumers Be Protected?
The final rule for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) changed the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) outlined in the proposed regulations in several respects: fewer quality and performance measures, reduced financial risk, and greater potential...
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Mon, Nov 07 2011 12:07 PM
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Reducing Health Care Costs While Improving Care
“It is well established now that one can in fact improve the quality of health care and reduce the costs at the same time.” That statement by Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Susan Dentzer summarized the message of a recent event sponsored by the journal...
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Wed, Nov 09 2011 11:31 AM
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