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Health Policy Brief: Pay For Performance
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzes pay-for-performance initiatives, including provisions in the Affordable Care Act, that provide financial incentives to doctors and hospitals for meeting or exceeding...
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Creating Outcome-Driven Health Care Markets
America’s health care market does not work well. It is inefficient, asymmetric, and in most cases not particularly competitive. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) legislated a myriad of changes to reform and improve insurance markets with exchanges as a centerpiece...
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Examining The Newly Covered Under The Affordable Care Act
In a little more than a year, physicians and insurers will begin serving a large new patient population that looks, and in many ways behaves, distinctly different from today’s insured population. The Affordable Care Act's coverage provisions -- representing...
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Tue, Oct 30 2012 11:38 AM
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New Health Affairs: Promise & Pitfalls Of Comparative Effectiveness Research
The October 2012 issue of Health Affairs provides an in-depth look at challenges in comparative effectiveness research. To surface issues around communication of research results, the issue includes a hypothetical comparative effectiveness case study...
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An Alternative Approach To Health Reform: Vouchers For All
While the Supreme Court’s decision in NFIB v. Sibelius largely lifted the constitutional cloud over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a darker cloud looms—it is not clear at all that the ACA will serve its purposes effectively. Indeed, the real threat to...
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Assuring Post-Acute Care Treatment for Medicare Beneficiaries
A federal judge in Vermont may soon act to approve a proposed settlement in a national class action suit, Jimmo v. Sebelius . In the case, the plaintiffs argue that Medicare contractors and administrative officials have been denying nursing and therapy...
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Do Medicare And Medicaid Payment Rates Really Threaten Physicians with Bankruptcy?
Physicians for years now have claimed that their practices lose money when treating Medicare or Medicaid patients. Doctors use these assertions to portray themselves as yearning to offer treatment to the elderly or indigent but unable to do so due to...
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Tue, Oct 02 2012 8:23 AM
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The Top Ten Health Affairs Blog Posts For September
A post on improving care transitions leads the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for September. Second on the list is Martin Makary's post on excessive executive compensation at children's hospitals, followed by Jeff Goldsmith's...
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Thu, Oct 04 2012 10:34 AM
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Time To Get Serious About Hospital Readmissions
Monday, October 1, marked a date hospitals knew was coming since March 2010: the beginning of federal fiscal year (FY) 2013, and the initiation of the CMS Readmission Reduction Program . The Readmission Reduction Program, referred to more commonly as...
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Wed, Oct 10 2012 11:06 AM
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Early Evidence Suggests Medicare Advantage Pay For Performance May Be Getting Results
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) established a Medicare Advantage (MA) pay-for-performance program that, early evidence suggests, may be yielding results. Data from plans shows significant improvement from 2010 to 2011 on measures...
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Mon, Oct 29 2012 8:04 AM
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GDP+0: Prospects And Challenges Of Bending The Health Care Cost Curve
Editor's note: In addition to Kenneth Kaufman and Charles Roehrig (photos and linked bios above), this post is coauthored by Paul Hughes-Cromwick, a health economist and Senior Analyst at Altarum Institute and Charles Kim, a Senior Vice President...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 12:32 PM
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Health Affairs Comparative Effectiveness Research Briefing Available For Viewing
Video and speaker materials from the Health Affairs briefing on the journal's October issue, " Current Challenges In Comparative Effectiveness Research ," are available on the Health Affairs website . The event is broken out by panel and...
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Thu, Oct 25 2012 11:52 AM
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Young Leader Award Winners Announced As RWJF Celebrates Fortieth Anniversary
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on GrantWatch Blog , Health Affairs Blog's sister blog. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) , based in Princeton, New Jersey, announced the ten winners of an award for young people with “strong...
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Health Policy Brief: Nurse Practitioners And Primary Care
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines policy proposals that would allow nurse practitioners to practice to their full potential—and the extent to which the medical profession, policy makers, and...
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Thu, Oct 25 2012 10:42 AM
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Turning Consumers Into Shoppers: Using High-Deductible Plans Wisely
As insurance exchanges emerge next year, and as states grapple with exactly what options health plans will provide, high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) are likely to be on the menu. But do such plans have the secret sauce to move participants from being...
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Thu, Oct 18 2012 9:05 AM
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