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Behind The Numbers: Slight Rise In Health Care Spending Growth Projected
PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) released its ninth annual Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers report today. This forward-looking report is based on interviews with industry executives, health policy experts, and health plan actuaries whose companies...
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Acknowledging The Elephant: Moving Market Power And Prices To The Center Of Health Policy
Editor's note: See Stuart Guterman's post on consolidation and market power in health care, also published today, and watch for more on these subjects in Health Affairs Blog. Health Affairs recently published a set of papers addressing the problem...
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Implementing Health Reform: The Supreme Court Rules on Contraception Coverage
The Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision may have a major impact on American religious liberty, employment, and corporation law. It does not in any way undermine the Affordable Care Act. The cases never challenged the Affordable Care Act as such. Rather...
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The Payment Reform Landscape: Capitation With Quality
When I began this blog series in February, I explained how Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) views different payment reform models along a continuum of financial risk. Thus far, we have used this series to explore the evidence behind “upside only” models...
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Implementing Health Reform: Premiums And Choice In The 2014 Health Insurance Marketplace
In the fall of 2013 the headlines were full of stories of individuals facing steep premium increases as the Affordable Care Act’s market reforms went into effect. The question was raised repeatedly whether Affordable Care Act premiums were really affordable...
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Making Markets Work In Health Care: What Does That Mean?
Editor's note: See Robert Berenson's post on consolidation and market power in health care, also published today, and watch for more on these subjects in Health Affairs Blog. Health Affairs last week posted a set of papers that represent several...
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Thoughts On The VA Scandal And The Future
For eight years, until May 2013, I directed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical research program from its Central Office and became familiar with the operations of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). It was my only VA job and I felt...
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How Much Market Power Do Hospitals Systems Have?
Sometimes big game hunters find frustration when their prey moves by the time they’ve lined up to blast it. That certainly appears to be the case with the health policy target de jour: whether providers, hospital systems in particular, exert too much...
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Thu, Jun 12 2014 12:13 PM
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New Health Policy Brief: Risk Corridors
The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) describes the Affordable Care Act’s premium stabilization programs that encourage insurers to participate in the exchanges by eliminating some unpredictability...
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Thu, Jun 26 2014 10:52 AM
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The Cost Of A Cure: Medicare’s Role In Treating Hepatitis C
Editor's note: In addition to Tricia Neuman, Jack Hoadley and Juliette Cubanski also coauthored this post. For a patient with hepatitis C, a potentially deadly disease, the prospect of finding a cure with minimal side effects is a really big deal...
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Thu, Jun 05 2014 8:23 AM
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Request For Abstracts: Health Affairs Health Care And Medical Innovation Theme Issue
Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on health care and medical innovation in early-2015. The issue will span the fields of medical technology and also cover public policy and private sector innovations that promote improvements in the delivery of...
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Thu, Jun 05 2014 10:26 AM
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Repeal, And Replace, The Employer Mandate
As it enters its fifth year, the Affordable Care Act has chalked up an impressive list of accomplishments. More than 8 million Americans have chosen a health plan through the ACA exchanges. At least another five million have likely enrolled in Medicaid...
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Health Affairs June Issue: Where Can We Find Savings In Health Care?
The June issue of Health Affairs , released today, features various approaches to cost-savings in the U.S. health care system. A variety of articles analyze the effects of potential policy solutions on the Medicare and Medicaid programs and their impact...
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Changing Provider Networks In Marketplace Health Plans: Balancing Affordability And Access To Quality Care
Editor's note: In addition to Sabrina Corlette, JoAnn Volk, Robert Berenson, and Judy Feder coauthored this post. Twelve percent of the complaints to California’s Department of Managed Health Care this year relate to access to care problems. In New...
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Wed, Jun 11 2014 9:20 AM
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Do Insurance Marketplace Consumers Need More Doctor Choices In-Network, Or Just Better Information?
Media outlets have focused extensively on consumer complaints about “limited networks” and not being able to find a doctor under qualified health plans (QHPs) offered through the Health Insurance Marketplaces (HIMs). In response, the Obama administration...
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