January 2014 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Nursing Homes Are The Solution On Readmissions

A recent report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) argues that skilled nursing care centers, or “nursing homes,” should be better monitored by the federal government when it comes to...

Published Fri, Jan 17 2014 10:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid, Patient Safety, Long-Term Care, Research

Health Affairs Web First: First-Ever Quantitative Data About The Toll Of BPA Exposure

The risks of exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) have been well known for some time. While exposure to BPA in the United States affects an estimated 92.6 percent of Americans over the age of five, there are gaps in the knowledge of the health consequences of...

Published Wed, Jan 22 2014 1:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Policy, Health Care Costs, Children, Obesity, Environmental Health

Implementing Health Reform: An October Through December Exchange Enrollment Report

On January 13, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report on the Health Insurance Marketplace covering the first three months of open enrollment, October 1 through December 28, 2013. The data are reported cumulatively over the...

Published Mon, Jan 13 2014 1:24 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Workplace Wellness Programs: Continuing The Discussion

Editor's note: One of the most-read Health Affairs articles last year was " Wellness Incentives In The Workplace: Cost Savings Through Cost Shifting To Unhealthy Workers ," by Jill R. Horwitz,.Brenna D. Kelly, and John E. DiNardo . The article...

Published Mon, Jan 27 2014 9:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Maryland’s Triple Aim Roadmap

In January, the State of Maryland and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) signed a historic agreement that, for the first time on a statewide level, provides the framework of a system that can deliver on the elusive Triple Aim of health...

Published Tue, Jan 28 2014 7:49 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid

The Hidden Curriculum: Changing the Water in Which We Swim

Editor's Note: This post is a response to Joshua Liao, Eric Thomas, and Sigall Bell's essay , " Speaking Up About The Dangers Of The Hidden Curriculum ," published under Narrative Matters in the January issue of Health Affairs. As the...

Published Fri, Jan 31 2014 7:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Workforce, Quality, Patient Safety

The Seeds of a Solution to the Problems of Emergency Medicine

As one of the principal authors of the original Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), I want to make clear that our efforts as the advisors to Senator Kennedy’s Committee in 1985 were squarely focused on the responsibility of hospital...

Published Fri, Jan 03 2014 7:18 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Primary Care, Access, Health Law, Emergency Medicine

National Health Spending Growth Remains Low For Fourth Consecutive Year

A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), released today in the January 2014 issue of Health Affairs , estimates that health care spending in the United States grew at a rate of 3.7 percent...

Published Mon, Jan 06 2014 1:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Cost

Views From the Hospital Executive Suite Leads Health Affairs Blog December Top Ten

Since the majority of Americans believe the Affordable Care Act will have a negative impact on the health care system, it's no surprise Andrew Steinmetz, Ralph Muller, Steven Altschuler, and Ezekiel Emanuel 's post about hospital executives'...

Published Thu, Jan 09 2014 9:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Pharma, Hospitals, Health Law, End-of-Life Care, Long-Term Care, Business of Health Care

Value-Based Pay for Performance: Rewarding Affordability Alongside Quality

In Since 2001, the Integrated Healthcare Association has served as the convener and lead organization for California’s statewide Pay for Performance (P4P) program. Eight health plans and approximately 200 physician organizations (POs) participate in the...

Published Tue, Jan 14 2014 9:42 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Quality

2014 National Health Policy Conference: Still Time To Register

Health Affairs is a media sponsor of AcademyHealth’s 2014.National Health Policy Conference , which will take place February 3 and 4 in Washington DC. Featuring cutting-edge content and more perspectives than ever, the conference will tackle Affordable...

Published Thu, Jan 16 2014 9:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Health Affairs Issue Briefing: The Rise of Connected Health

An explosion of knowledge that is increasingly available through mobile devices and an array of telehealth and telemedicine technologies are linking the marvels of medicine to more patients and providers separated by geography. The February 2014 thematic...

Published Fri, Jan 17 2014 11:44 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Access, Innovation, Technology, Connected Health

Implementing Health Reform: December Data On Medicaid And CHIP Applications And Eligibility Determinations

On January 22, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the December (2013) Monthly Applications and Eligibility Determinations Report for the Medicaid and CHIP programs . The top line of this report is that 1,918,484 applications...

Published Wed, Jan 22 2014 8:47 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, States, Medicare, Coverage, Medicaid, Children, Disabilities

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