February 2013 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

The RUC, Health Care Finance’s Star Chamber, Remains Untouchable

On January 7, a federal appeals court rejected six Georgia primary care physicians’ (PCPs) challenge to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 20-year, sole-source relationship with the secretive, specialist-dominated federal advisory committee...

Published Fri, Feb 01 2013 9:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Medicare, Workforce, Health Law

Transforming The Way We Train Future Physicians

Rapid changes in health care require a transformation in the way future physicians are trained. They will need to be able to navigate new and increasingly complicated health information technologies, understand, and use advances in personalized medicine...

Published Tue, Feb 05 2013 9:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Workforce

Health Policy Brief: The CO-OP Health Insurance Program

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation discusses the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program, a provision of the Affordable Care Act. Starting in October, many Americans will be able to enroll...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2013 12:09 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Insurance, Coverage

Winners And Losers From The Zaltrap Price Discount: Unintended Consequences?

Soon after Sanofi Pharmaceuticals’ Inc. August 2012 launch of the biologic drug ziv-aflibercept (brand name Zaltrap) into the U.S. market, its price triggered an unusual act of defiance on the part of oncolAogists. Physicians from Memorial Sloan-Kettering...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2013 10:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

Health Policy Brief: Federally Facilitated Exchanges

The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explores the issues facing the federal government and the states in the establishment and operation of federally facilitated health insurance exchanges. These are...

Published Fri, Feb 08 2013 11:06 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Will The Readmission Rate Penalties Drive Hospital Behavior Changes?

Since the development of the metric in 1984 by Anderson and Steinberg , inpatient hospital readmission rates have been used as a marker for hospital quality. A good deal of attention is now being paid to the new readmission rate penalties in the Affordable...

Published Thu, Feb 14 2013 9:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Disparities

Health Policy Brief: Patient Engagement

A new Health Policy Brief summarizes the key findings in the field of patient engagement and draws on the February 2013 issue of Health Affairs , entitled “ New Era Of Patient Engagement .” A growing body of evidence demonstrates that patients who are...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2013 11:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Medicaid Expansion: Benefits For Women of Childbearing Age And Their Children

States are in the midst of deciding whether and how to expand their Medicaid programs to nonelderly individuals with income below 133 percent of Federal Poverty Level (FPL), as permitted under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The group that perhaps stands...

Published Fri, Feb 22 2013 8:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Access, Disparities, Medicaid, Children

Not In My Name: Real Patient-Centeredness Means Sharing Power

It is as natural for doctors, hospitals, health plans and others to aggressively affirm their “patient-centeredness” as it is for politicians to loudly proclaim their fealty to the hard-working American middle class. Like the politicians, the health care...

Published Tue, Feb 26 2013 9:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Competition, Hospitals, Patient Safety

Lessons In Quality Improvement: Learning From Hospital Closures In Lancashire

TweetIn health care quality improvement circles, the story of England’s East Lancashire has taken on almost mythical status: working with county and borough councils, local hospital organizations, and medical leaders in primary and secondary care, an...

Published Fri, Feb 01 2013 8:07 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Politics, Physicians, Primary Care, Access, Quality, Hospitals, Nurses, Europe

February Health Affairs Issue: New Era Of Patient Engagement

The February issue of Health Affairs , released today, explores a burgeoning field: activating and engaging patients in their health and health care. Research shows that more informed and empowered patients, who participate with their providers in making...

Published Mon, Feb 04 2013 1:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Quality

Howard Koh On Health Literacy: Proposing A New Model Of Care

Health literacy is the essential backbone of informed patient engagement, said Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, at a February 6 Health Affairs briefing . The event was held to unveil the journal...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2013 11:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Quality, Patient Safety

Continued Growth Of Public And Private Accountable Care Organizations

On January 10, 2013 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 106 Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will join the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). CMS reports that this brings the total number of MSSP ACOs to “more...

Published Tue, Feb 19 2013 9:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Physicians, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, States, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals

Implementing Health Reform: The Basic Health Program And Federal Medicaid Matching Rates

Although we seem to be in a relatively quiet period between the issuance of a host of proposed 2014 reform regulations and their reappearance in final form, HHS continues to issue subregulatory guidance on a regular basis. (The quiet may not last long...

Published Thu, Feb 07 2013 11:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, States, Medicaid

The Effects Of Health Costs On Family Incomes Leads HA Blog January Top Ten

Art Kellermann and David Auerbach's look at the effects of health care costs on middle class incomes leads the Health Affairs Blog most-read list for January. Next on the list are three posts by Tim Jost looking at the implementation of the Affordable...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2013 12:30 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Public Opinion, Health Care Costs, States, Medicare, Pharma, Health Law

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