July 2012 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Study Finds Sharp Slowdown In Imaging Use After 2005

Demand for new radiologists, one of the most sought-after specialists, began declining in 2007 because of a lessening increase in demand for imaging studies. According to a Web First study in Health Affairs published yesterday, the growth in the use of...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2012 12:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Insurance, Payment, Spending, Technology, Patient Safety

Health Affairs PEPFAR Briefing Tomorrow: Reminder And Webcast Information

Tomorrow, Tuesday July 10, Health Affairs will release its July 2012 issue, “Assessing The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief.” The volume contains a thorough examination of PEPFAR, the program of bilateral U.S. assistance begun in 2003 to support...

Published Mon, Jul 09 2012 9:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Chronic Care, Pharma, Global Health, AIDS

A Sizzling Health Wonk Review

A belated shout-out to Julie Ferguson’s summertime edition of the Health Wonk Review over at Workers’ Comp Insider. Julie offers a great collection of health policy blog posts for reading at your desk or at the beach. Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 1:42 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

Decision Time For States On The Affordable Care Act

With the constitutionality of the individual mandate—and with it, almost the entire Affordable Care Act—now established, the implementation ball has been returned squarely to the states’ court. The highly variable state responses to the law—ranging from...

Published Mon, Jul 02 2012 8:37 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Choice Architecture: Design Decisions That Affect Consumers’ Health Plan Choices

The Affordable Care Act is intended to bring new health insurance choices to American consumers but — unless we pay attention to the concept of choice architecture — consumers may not be able to identify the best choice for them. Health insurance...

Published Fri, Jul 13 2012 10:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Tax Credits In Federally Facilitated Exchanges Are Consistent With The Affordable Care Act’s Language And History

Those who oppose making affordable health insurance available to lower- and middle-income Americans are not giving up easily. Having lost their two-year long battle to have the Affordable Care Act nullified in its entirety by the federal courts, opponents...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 5:27 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

CMS Spending Report Leads Health Affairs Top-Ten List For First Half Of 2012

An examination of national health expenditures in 2010 was the most-read Health Affairs article from January through June of 2012. This article, published in January, represents the latest installment of the annual retrospective health spending reports...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2012 10:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health IT, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Technology, End-of-Life Care

Full Steam Ahead: In Wake of Supreme Court Decision, HHS Issues Funding Opportunities, Implementation Guidance

While all of the attention of the public and of the media has been focused on the Supreme Court’s June 28 decision upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and on examining the nuances and consequences of that decision, the federal...

Published Thu, Jul 05 2012 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

New Health Affairs: Assesing The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief

Articles published yesterday in the July 2012 issue of July 2012 issue of Health Affairs focus on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the US program to address global HIV and AIDS, and the largest investment to date of any country...

Published Tue, Jul 10 2012 3:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Chronic Care, Pharma, Global Health, AIDS, Science and Health

The New ACA Score And The Perils Of Letting Cost Estimates Drive Policymaking

If you were expecting the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recalculation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to rival the drama of the Supreme Court decision, you will have been disappointed. But the new CBO re-estimate underscores the dangers of basing...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 2:52 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Coverage, Medicaid

After The Supreme Court, Higher Cost and Unrealistic Timeline Will Force Major Changes

The Supreme Court has spoken, but problems built into the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have not been resolved by the decision and may have worsened. Even accepting the law’s assumptions about how the health system should be reformed, actually putting all...

Published Mon, Jul 02 2012 12:23 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicaid

Health Affairs Conference: After The Supreme Court

A small number of seats may still be available for Health Affairs’ Tuesday, July 17 conference, “After the Supreme Court: Moving Ahead to Implement the Affordable Care Act, Improve Health and Health Care and Lower Costs.” The conference will be...

Published Fri, Jul 13 2012 2:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law

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