September 2013 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Implementing Health Reform: The Basic Health Plan Proposed Rule

Late in the afternoon of September 20, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services released a notice of proposed rulemaking to establish the Basic Health Program (BHP). Congress created the BHP to give the states flexibility to offer an alternative...

Published Sat, Sep 21 2013 12:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Health Policy Brief: The ‘Cadillac’ Tax

The most recent Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explains one of the most controversial provisions of the Affordable Care Act: the so-called Cadillac tax on generous employer-sponsored health insurance plans...

Published Fri, Sep 20 2013 1:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: Political And Legal Battles, Data Security, And More

The week of September 16, 2013, has been quiet on the Affordable Care Act regulatory front. Most of the noise has emanated from Capital Hill, where the House of Representatives seems poised to enact legislation that would “defund Obamacare” as part of...

Published Fri, Sep 20 2013 5:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Politics, Malpractice Liability Reform, Health Law

Food Marketing To Children: A Commentary On William Dietz’s Health Affairs Article

Editor's note: This post comments on " New Strategies To Improve Food Marketing To Children ," by William Dietz, the former director of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in...

Published Thu, Sep 19 2013 9:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Consumers, Prevention, Chronic Care, Children, Obesity

US Health Spending Growth Projected To Average 5.8 Percent Annually Through 2022

New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) project that aggregate health care spending in the United States will grow at an average annual rate of 5.8 percent for 2012–22, or 1.0...

Published Wed, Sep 18 2013 1:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

Patient Experience Will Drive A Renewal Of Professionalism

The conventional wisdom among many of my closest physician colleagues is that the current surge in interest in measuring “patient experience” is a bit of a fad, and that the measures are not always central to the real work of improving patient care. My...

Published Wed, Sep 18 2013 9:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Quality, Hospitals, Technology

Reform The Doctor Recertification Process To Create A Better Health Care System

Editor's note: Peter Orszag coauthored this post with Alan Muney. There’s a lot of talk about creating a better health care delivery system based on value, not volume. Much of the focus is on insurers rewarding doctors financially for improving patients...

Published Tue, Sep 17 2013 12:41 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Health IT, Workforce, Quality, Effectiveness

Meaningful Consent In Electronic Health Information Exchange: A Technology-Centric Approach

Editor's note: This post is coauthored by Kathryn Marchesini and Joy Pritts. Patients’ trust in how their health information is managed is essential to the success of emerging models for electronically sharing patient health information. Patients...

Published Tue, Sep 17 2013 7:49 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Health IT, Technology

Verifying Eligibility For Affordable Care Act Subsidies: Access To Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Editor's note: Matthew Buettgens coauthored this post with Stan Dorn. Considerable attention has focused on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) one-year suspension of employer penalties and reporting requirements under the Patient...

Published Mon, Sep 16 2013 8:23 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: Tax-Favored Health Savings Arrangements, Medicaid DSH Payments, And Multiemployer Plans

On September 13, 2013, the Departments of Treasury and Labor released a guidance on the Application of the Market Reform and other Provisions of the Affordable Care Act to HRAs, Health FSAs, and Certain other Employer Healthcare Arrangements. The Department...

Published Sat, Sep 14 2013 9:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

ACA Implementation Advice: Encourage Timely Reports Of Income Changes

In a recent Health Affairs article , we, along with coauthor Dave Graham-Square, examine a potential pitfall in the design and implementation of the tax subsidies individuals and families may receive through the new health insurance marketplaces beginning...

Published Fri, Sep 13 2013 10:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: Data Hub Security And Other Issues

As the summer of 2013 draws to a close, the agencies implementing the Affordable Care Act are working diligently at the tasks that must be completed before the exchanges open their doors on (or about) October 1, while opponents of the Affordable Care...

Published Fri, Sep 13 2013 8:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Payment Reform: Progress And Lessons Learned

When Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) released its first-ever National Scorecard on Payment Reform last March, we faced some tough questions. The Scorecard revealed that just about 11 percent of payments to doctors and hospitals in this country are value...

Published Thu, Sep 12 2013 10:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality

The Privacy Conundrum And Genomic Research: Re-Identification And Other Concerns

No matter what the arena -- finance, health care, or national security -- questions surrounding the provision of personal data are always the same: how much benefit vs. how much risk? Who handles these data, and can those individuals be trusted? How do...

Published Wed, Sep 11 2013 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Bioethics, Health Law, Innovation, Technology, Science and Health, Research

System Transformation Intensifies Demand for Evidence: The Trust Conundrum

Although we have witnessed historic lows in the rate of growth of healthcare spending, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and secular trends have created fundamentally new dynamics in how providers, clinicians, and patients are exposed to the...

Published Tue, Sep 10 2013 10:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Pharma, Health Law, Technology, Effectiveness, Biotech, Research

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