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Health Policy Leader Alan Weil To Become New Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief
Health Affairs and its publisher Project HOPE are pleased to announce that Alan Weil will become the journal’s new editor-in-chief on June 2, 2014. Weil, a highly respected expert in health policy and current member of Health Affairs’ editorial board...
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Exhibit Of The Month: More HIV Testing With Medicaid Expansion
Editor’s note: This is the second post in the new “Exhibit of the Month” series. Readers who’d like to highlight other noteworthy exhibits from the same issue are encouraged to make their pitch in the comments section below. This month’s exhibit examines...
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Fri, Mar 28 2014 8:01 AM
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Should Provider Performance Measures Be Risk-Adjusted For Sociodemographic Factors?
The National Quality Forum released draft recommendations on March 18 to change the way we assess the care that doctors and hospitals provide, and they are sure to cause a buzz in and beyond the health care community. That’s a good thing, because reflection...
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Thu, Mar 27 2014 10:45 AM
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A March Madness Health Wonk Review
Welcome to the “March Madness” edition of the Health Wonk Review. The NCAA college basketball tournament seemed like a natural theme for a health care policy blog post: huge amounts of money floating around in ways that only sometimes correlate with performance...
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Thu, Mar 27 2014 7:32 AM
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Implementing Health Reform: Additional Enrollment Opportunities And ACA Litigation
On March 26, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services drew the 2014 open enrollment period toward a close with a flourish, releasing a series of guidance documents regarding opportunities that remain to enroll in coverage after the open enrollment...
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Wed, Mar 26 2014 8:50 PM
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Health Affairs Briefing: Long Reach Of Alzheimer’s Disease
Despite decades of effort, finding breakthrough treatments or a cure for Alzheimer's has eluded researchers. In the April 2014 issue of Health Affairs , The Long Reach Of Alzheimer's Disease , we explore the many subjects raised by the disease...
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Wed, Mar 26 2014 1:59 PM
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HA Web First: New Medicaid Recipients Healthier Than Pre-ACA Enrollees
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) gives states the option of expanding Medicaid coverage to individuals and families with incomes of up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. A new study, being released today as a Web First by Health Affairs , used...
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Wed, Mar 26 2014 1:45 PM
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Health Insurance Coverage Is Just The First Step: Findings From Massachusetts
As the rollout of coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues across the country, more Americans are gaining insurance coverage , with all the benefits that that implies in terms of health care access and financial protections. However...
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Wed, Mar 26 2014 7:24 AM
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PCORI’s Research Will Answer Patients’ Real-World Questions
As a physician, I know the challenge of helping patients determine which health care options might work best for them given their personal situation and preferences. Too often they -- and their clinicians -- must make choices about preventing, diagnosing...
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Tue, Mar 25 2014 10:03 AM
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March Madness: Medicare Part D’s Persistent Challenge And Opportunity
March Madness came early for CMS, with more than 7,600 public comments received on their Medicare Part D proposed rules and technical changes for 2015 . Less than 72 hours after that docket closed, CMS unfurled their white flag via a March 10 letter to...
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Mon, Mar 24 2014 12:03 PM
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The Health Workforce: A Critical Component Of The Health Care Infrastructure
Editor’s note: This is the first in a periodic series of Health Affairs Blog posts on health workforce issues by Edward Salsberg. Mr. Salsberg has spent over 30 years studying the health workforce, including nearly 20 years establishing and directing...
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Mon, Mar 24 2014 11:22 AM
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Countering Cancer: The New Foreign Policy Issue
For years internationalists have being trying to make the argument to ordinary Americans that foreign policy matters -- that we must contend with complex issues overseas like countering terrorism while also focusing resources and energies on economic...
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Fri, Mar 21 2014 10:51 AM
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Three Better Bipartisan Health Policies To Pay For Repealing Medicare’s SGR
After months of House and Senate negotiations on legislation to replace the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for updating Medicare physician payment, members of Congress are relieved to finally have an agreement. It is perfectly understandable...
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Fri, Mar 21 2014 9:13 AM
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New Health Policy Brief: Transitioning To ICD-10
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looks at an important change expected in the American health system later this year: the transition to the ICD-10 coding system by all health providers for diagnoses...
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Thu, Mar 20 2014 2:40 PM
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Health Information Exchange In NYC Jails: Early Policy Challenges
Editor's note: This post is published in conjunction with the March issue of Health Affairs , which features a cluster of articles on jails and health. For more on jails and health information technology in particular, see here , here , and here Read...
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Thu, Mar 20 2014 11:17 AM
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