November 2012 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Implementing Health Reform: Wellness Programs And Medicaid FAQ

On November 20, 2012, the federal government released a number of important and long-awaited proposed rules implementing the Affordable Care Act. Earlier posts examined proposed rules on market reform and rate review and essential health benefits, actuarial...

Published Wed, Nov 21 2012 1:45 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Insurance, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Medicaid

A Call For Clarity In Health Care: The FAIR Health NPIC Database

By all accounts, health care in America has been ailing for several decades. Americans have struggled with acquiring and maintaining adequate health insurance as costs have steadily increased. While the increased insurance coverage provided under the...

Published Wed, Nov 28 2012 11:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Quality, Research

A Post-Election Health Wonk Review

At his blog Managed Care Matters, Joe Paduda hosts a post-election edition of the Health Wonk Review . Joe offers a great collection of posts about the election results and other topics, including Tim Jost's Health Affairs Blog piece describing the...

Published Tue, Nov 13 2012 10:23 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Policy, Politics

After The Fall (Off The Fiscal Cliff)

Republicans were handed a convincing defeat at the polls, not only losing the race for the presidency but also losing ground in the Senate. The good news for the country is that Republican leadership is not in denial. The day after the election, Speaker...

Published Thu, Nov 15 2012 8:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

New Health Affairs Looks At Delivery Reform, Spending Sources

The November 2012 issue of Health Affairs , released today, contains articles on a wide variety of health policy topics, including: . Early insights from emerging care delivery models, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and patient-centered...

Published Mon, Nov 05 2012 1:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Quality

Trust But Verify: Why CMS Got It Right On EHR Oversight

Yesterday’s New York Times headline read that “ Medicare Is Faulted on Shift to Electronic Records .” The story describes an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report , released November 29, 2012, that faults the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Published Fri, Nov 30 2012 8:33 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Health IT, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid

Safety Net Challenges In Delivering Accountable Care

Editor's note: In addition to Stephen Shortell (photo and linked bio above), this post is coauthored by Sarah Weinberger, a graduate student at UC Berkeley; Matt Chayt, an associate at Nossaman LLP; and Ann Marie Marciarille, a visiting assistant...

Published Thu, Nov 01 2012 7:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, States, Workforce, Quality, Hospitals, Disparities, Medicaid, Mental Health

Implementing Health Reform: Essential Health Benefits, Actuarial Value, And Accreditation

On November 20, 2012, the Departments of Health and Human Service, Labor and Treasury released a flood of proposed Affordable Care Act proposed rules and guidances. My first post examined the market reform proposed rules. This post discusses the essential...

Published Wed, Nov 21 2012 10:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Narrative Matters: A Nurse Navigates Her Husband’s Care Transitions

Following her husband’s stroke, it fell to Beth Ann Swan, a registered nurse and nursing school dean, to coordinate her recovering husband's care and manage his transitions among several hospitals and home. Swan writes about her experience in the...

Published Tue, Nov 27 2012 10:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Hospitals, Personal Experience, Nurses

Health Policy After The Election

In the short time that has passed since the election, there have been numerous pronouncements that the struggle over the future of American health care is now more or less settled. And it is certainly true that, over the next four years, full-scale repeal...

Published Fri, Nov 09 2012 8:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

World Diabetes Day: Health Affairs Resources

To mark World Diabetes Day, I wanted to call readers' attention to the thematic issue on diabetes published by Health Affairs in January 2012. Much of the issue dealt with the diabetes crisis in the United States, but several articles dealt with the...

Published Wed, Nov 14 2012 12:31 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Global Health, Comparative Effectiveness, Europe

PCORI’s Problem: Reasons Are Not Causes

Editor's note: In another Health Affairs Blog post also published today, Joe Selby, the executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, responds to David Introcaso's post below. For more on the concept of patient centeredness...

Published Mon, Nov 05 2012 11:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Physicians, Comparative Effectiveness, Science and Health, Research

The Impact Of The 2012 Election On Health Systems And Providers

Editor's note: For more on what yesterday's election means for health policy, see Tim Jost's post published earlier today on Health Affairs Blog. With the election season now (blessedly) behind us, and the endless barrage of campaign ads now...

Published Wed, Nov 07 2012 1:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Quality, Medicaid

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