January 2015 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Last Year Was A Wild One For Health Law — What’s On The Docket For 2015?

Everywhere we look, we see the tremendous impact of new legal developments---whether regulatory or statutory, federal or state---on health and health care. These topics range from insurance to intellectual property to religion to professionalism to civil...

Published Thu, Jan 22 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Policy, Politics, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Access, Health Law, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Delivery, Business of Health Care, Veterans

Academic Medical Centers Should Lead The Charge On Price Transparency

A bipartisan campaign to increase price transparency in the medical world has been reverberating through the press, government, and hospitals. Recent examples include CMS’ release of datasets for inpatient and outpatient charges and North Carolina’s House...

Published Wed, Jan 21 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Quality, Hospitals

Health Affairs Briefing: Biomedical Innovation

Biomedical innovation lengthens and enriches our lives through breakthroughs in medications and care, but it is has also been the leading source of health care cost growth over the past few decades. The upcoming February 2015 thematic issue of Health...

Published Tue, Jan 20 2015 1:15 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Pharma, Innovation, Technology, Biotech, Science and Health, Research

Moving From Mandate To Reality: A Roadmap For Patient And Family Engagement

The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) moved patient and family engagement to center stage in health care reform. The law mentions “patient-centered care” at least 40 times, with explicit references to patient engagement, patient experience, health literacy...

Published Tue, Jan 20 2015 11:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Quality, Patient Safety, Health Care Delivery

How Community Health Workers Can Reinvent Health Care Delivery In The US

As health policy, research and practice are becoming increasingly focused on improving the health of populations and addressing social determinants of health, Community Health Workers (CHWs) may be just what the doctor ordered. As part of the public health...

Published Fri, Jan 16 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Primary Care, Workforce, Access, Health Care Delivery

The Payment Reform Landscape: Drilling Down

Catalyst for Payment Reform’s 2014 National Scorecard on Payment Reform revealed a dramatic jump in the percent of commercial health care payments that is value-oriented, meaning the payments are tied to the quality of care in some way. In last year’s...

Published Thu, Jan 15 2015 9:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality

How Policy Makers In Emerging Health Systems Can Advance Innovative Care For The Chronically Ill

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts related to the 4 th European Forum on Health Policy and Management: Innovation & Implementation , to be held in Berlin, Germany on January 29 and 30, 2015. For more information or to request...

Published Thu, Jan 15 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Innovation, Long-Term Care

Health Affairs Web First: New Medicare Per Capita Spending Shows A Rise With Age, Then A Decline After 96

New analysis of Medicare spending from 2000–11 found that in 2011 per capita spending increased with age, from $7,566 for beneficiaries age seventy to $16,145 at age ninety-six, and then declining for even older beneficiaries. The study authors Patricia...

Published Wed, Jan 14 2015 1:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Aging, Long-Term Care, Research

Graduate Medical Education: The Need For New Leadership In Governance And Financing

With the creation of the Medicare program in 1965, a funding stream was established to support the training of medical residents who provided care for Medicare beneficiaries. In subsequent years, Medicare has maintained these payments to teaching hospitals...

Published Wed, Jan 14 2015 9:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Primary Care, Medicare, Workforce, Hospitals, Disparities, Medicaid

Implementing Health Reform: FAQs On Taxes And The ACA

In the next few days, consumers who enrolled in qualified health plans through the marketplaces in 2014 will begin receiving IRS form 1095-As from the marketplaces, be they the federally facilitated marketplaces (FFMs) or state-operated marketplaces....

Published Tue, Jan 13 2015 12:29 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Coverage, Children

CMS Spending Report Leads Health Affairs 2014 Top-Ten List

A report on 2012 health spending by analysts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of the Actuary was the most-read Health Affairs article in 2014. To celebrate the New Year, Health Affairs is making this piece and all the articles...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2015 10:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Prevention, Physicians, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Competition, Hospitals, Personal Experience, End-of-Life Care, Narrative Matters, Palliative Care

Reconsidering Pauly And Coauthors’ ‘Economic Framework For Preventive Care Advice’

In the November issue of Health Affairs, Mark Pauly and coauthors criticize the lack of cost-effectiveness considerations in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which mandates that health plans include preventive care free at the point of use. The bodies critiqued...

Published Mon, Jan 12 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Health Care Costs, Spending, Research

The Importance Of Zip Code In Determining One’s Health Tops 2014 GrantWatch Blog Most-Read List

Happy New Year! We have compiled a list of the ten most-read posts on GrantWatch Blog during 2014, in case you missed any of them. “Zip Code Overrides DNA Code When It Comes to a Healthy Community” (January 30, 2014). This post by Anne Warhover, former...

Published Fri, Jan 09 2015 12:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

New Narrative Matters: A Mother’s Hope For A Natural Birth In A Cesarean Culture

Health Affairs ' January Narrative Matters essay features a physician and mother on giving birth in a culture that increasingly pushes women toward cesarean sections. Carla Keirns' article is freely available to all readers, or you can listen...

Published Fri, Jan 09 2015 6:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Personal Experience, Narrative Matters

Medicaid Expansion Post Leads Health Affairs Blog 2014 Top-Fifteen List

As we begin 2015, we present the fifteen most-read Health Affairs Blog posts from 2014. Topping the list is " Opting Out Of Medicaid Expansion: The Health And Financial Impacts ," by Sam Dickman, David Himmelstein, Danny McCormick, and Steffie...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2015 10:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Policy, Chronic Care, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid, Most-Read

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