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New Health Affairs: Navigating The Thorns Of ACA Implementation
With only weeks to go before health insurance exchanges across the United States open their web portals for business, Health Affairs’ September issue focuses on who stands to gain, or lose. Will employers stop providing health insurance, forcing their...
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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...
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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...
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Fri, Sep 13 2013 10:00 AM
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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...
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Implementing Health Reform: Reporting Requirements For Employer And Minimum Essential Coverage
On September 5, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service issued two notices of proposed rules intended to implement key reporting requirements of the Affordable Care Act. One rule would require large employers to report to the IRS and to their employees information...
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Fri, Sep 06 2013 4:38 AM
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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...
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Fri, Sep 20 2013 5:14 AM
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As Open Enrollment Nears, A Health Affairs Conversation With Alan Weil
In a new Health Affairs Conversations podcast , Alan Weil, the executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, discusses the impending opening of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces. In a wide-ranging discussion...
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Low-Income Consumers’ Lack Of Financial Literacy Could Impede Use Of ACA Coverage, Subsidies
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many low income consumers will become eligible for government support to buy health insurance. Whether these consumers are able to take advantage of the support and make sound decisions about purchasing health insurance...
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Thu, Sep 26 2013 8:43 AM
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Health Affairs Briefing: Economic Trends And Quality Trade-Offs
Please join Health Affairs Founding Editor John Iglehart on Tuesday, October 8, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for a Health Affairs briefing at which we will unveil the October 2013 thematic, "Economic Trends And Quality Trade-offs...
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Fri, Sep 27 2013 10:22 AM
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Implementing Health Reform: Reporting Requirements For Employer And Minimum Essential Coverage (Full Analysis)
Editor's note: This post provides a full analysis of two Affordable Care Act IRS reporting regulations that were discussed in abbreviated fashion in an earlier post . On September 5, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed rules intended...
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Sat, Sep 07 2013 10:50 AM
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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...
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Thu, Sep 12 2013 10:05 AM
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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...
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Sat, Sep 14 2013 9:58 AM
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Where To Compete In A Post-Reform World
Editor’s note: In addition to Shubham Singhal (photo and linked bio above) this post, the first in a periodic series of posts on the business of health care by McKinsey analysts, is authored by Rohit Kumar, Susan Nolen Foushee, and Jeris Stueland. Rohit...
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Mon, Sep 30 2013 11:16 AM
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HA Blog August Top-Ten List Headed By Discussion Of Exchange Premium Variation
A look at the eye-opening variation in premiums in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces tops the Health Affairs Blog most-read list for August. Joel Ario, Adam Block, and Ian Spatz examine the possible factors behind this variation...
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Wed, Sep 04 2013 12:29 PM
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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...
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Wed, Sep 18 2013 1:06 PM
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