August 2014 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Implementing Health Reform: King Plaintiffs Ask For Supreme Court Review

On July 31, 2014, Michael Carvin, attorney for the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell , one of two parallel cases challenging an IRS rule allowing premium tax credits to be issued by federally facilitated exchange, filed a petition for a writ of certioriari...

Published Fri, Aug 01 2014 12:57 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Bundled Payment: Learning From Our Failures

Note: In addition to Tom Williams, Jill Yegian also coauthored this post. Seeing “IHA” and “Fails” together in the title of an article in the nation’s premier health policy journal was not an outcome that we anticipated when the bundled payment initiative...

Published Tue, Aug 05 2014 8:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Medicaid, Business of Health Care

Health Policy Brief: The Relative Contribution Of Multiple Determinants To Health Outcomes

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) examines factors that can contribute to health status. In the United States, less than 9 percent of health expenditures go to disease prevention, and there is...

Published Fri, Aug 22 2014 12:22 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Environmental Health

The 125 Percent Solution: Fixing Variations In Health Care Prices

Summer vacation’s finally here. You’re strolling along the beach, not a care in the world when – ouch – you step on a piece of broken glass and need a few stitches at the local hospital. Such routine procedures are painless enough, but depending on where...

Published Tue, Aug 26 2014 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Competition, Quality, Hospitals, Innovation

Collaboration, Consistency, and Community Spirit: How Durham Advances Health

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series written for Health Affairs Blog by local leaders from communities honored with the annual Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize . In 2014, six winning communities were selected by...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2014 11:18 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, States

Posts On ACA Legal Challenges Lead Health Affairs Blog July Top Ten

Two posts regarding legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act were the most-read Health Affairs Blog posts in August. In the top spot: Tim Jost's discussion of Supreme Court actions that were arguably at odds with the Court's Hobby Lobby decision...

Published Thu, Aug 07 2014 9:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Payment, Health Law, Health Care Delivery, Most-Read

Health Affairs Web Firsts: Two Studies Find Mixed Results On EHR Adoption

Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was enacted in 2009, Health Affairs has published many articles about the promise of health information technology and the challenges of promoting broad adoption and...

Published Mon, Aug 11 2014 10:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Evolution Of A Two-Tier Health Insurance Exchange System

Note: In addition to Rosemarie Day, this post is also coauthored by Pamela Nadash and Angelique Hrycko. Health reform has been a catalyst for change. It has fostered the creation of public health insurance exchanges and accelerated existing trends in...

Published Wed, Aug 13 2014 8:01 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Coverage, Business of Health Care

Hospital Readmission Reduction Program Reignites Debate Over Risk Adjusting Quality Measures

Note: In addition to Eva DuGoff, Shawn Bishop and Purva Rawal also coauthored this post. Do safety net hospitals categorically under perform the national average in terms of managing readmissions? Or is something else triggering higher rates of readmissions...

Published Thu, Aug 14 2014 10:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid

It’s Hard To Be Neutral About Network Neutrality For Health

Network Neutrality (NN) has been in the news because the FCC is considering two options related to a neutral Internet: Either regulation forcing NN, or an approach that creates a “fast lane” on the Internet for those content providers that are willing...

Published Mon, Aug 18 2014 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health IT, Access, Technology, Connected Health

An Ounce Of Prevention For The ACA’s Second Open Enrollment

Note: In addition to Jon Kingsdale, this post is coauthored by Julia Lerche. Since recovering from its flawed rollout, the ACA has enjoyed a string of successes. By April, some eight million Americans managed to enroll; for 2015, some reluctant insurers...

Published Mon, Aug 04 2014 9:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Payment Reform Landscape: Accountable Care Organizations

Note: In addition to Suzanne Delbanco, t his post is also coauthored by David Lansky. “The accountable care organization is like a unicorn, a fantastic creature that is vested with mythical powers. But no one has actually seen one,” said former California...

Published Tue, Aug 05 2014 10:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality, Effectiveness, Health Care Delivery, Business of Health Care

Key Success Factors For the Medicare Shared Savings Program

In January 2012 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officially launched the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) for the formation of national Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Early participants were charged with bringing the...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2014 7:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Medicare, Quality, Medicaid

Implementing Health Reform: New Accommodations For Employers On Contraceptive Coverage

On August 22, 2014, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury released an interim fina l and a proposed rule providing for the accommodation of religious objections on the part of an employer or institution of higher learning to...

Published Fri, Aug 22 2014 4:18 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Rescue Me: The Challenge Of Compassionate Use In The Social Media Era

The Development of Brincidofovir and its Possible Use to Treat Josh Hardy Last March 4, seven-year old Josh Hardy lay critically ill in the intensive care unit at St Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee with a life-threatening adenovirus infection...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2014 9:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Access, Bioethics, Pharma, Technology, Biotech, Research

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