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The Transformation Of Medical Education From Choosing More To Choosing Wisely
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Exhibit of the Month: Improving Pharmaceutical Innovation
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing “ 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 exhibits, published...
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Health Affairs Web First: Assessing Health And Health Care Perceptions In sub-Saharan Africa
A large share of Western aid to developing countries goes to sub-Saharan Africa, a region where spending on health care is around $100 per person in 2005 price-adjusted terms. This region, which experienced large gains in life expectancy in the years...
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Fri, Feb 27 2015 7:26 AM
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Building A Framework To Assess The Impact Of Change
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 , held in Berlin, Germany on January 29 and 30, 2015. For updates on the Forum’s results...
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Fri, Feb 27 2015 6:00 AM
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The Patient Access Imperative: A Potential Triple Win For Payors, Providers, And Patients
Long patient wait times, frustratingly high no-show rates, lack-luster call center performance, and under-utilized physicians. Does any of this sound familiar? Although a small set of health systems have boldly declared that their physicians guarantee...
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Thu, Feb 26 2015 9:14 AM
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New Health Policy Brief: Risk Corridors (Updated)
The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provides an update to an earlier brief on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s risk corridor program, which allows the Department of Health and Human Services...
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Thu, Feb 26 2015 9:00 AM
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What Happens When A Retail Pharmacy Decides To Stop Selling Cigarettes?
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...
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Top 5 Health Care Trends to Watch in 2015
With a new Congress, health care is once again an issue of tremendous scrutiny and debate. Many of the federal policy debates in 2015 will be largely symbolic, resulting in little more than tweaks to existing law. However, health care policy is not just...
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Wed, Feb 25 2015 12:27 PM
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State Expectations: Setting The Record Straight In King v. Burwell
On Wednesday, March 4 th , the Supreme Court will hear the latest attack on the Affordable Care Act (ACA): the case King v. Burwell . The King petitioners allege that the Internal Revenue Service overstepped its authority by issuing regulations authorizing...
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Wed, Feb 25 2015 6:00 AM
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Implementing Health Reform: Beginning The Cadillac Tax Regulatory Conversation And Other ACA News
The Cadillac high-cost health plan excise tax, which goes into effect in 2018, is one of the last-to-be-implemented provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It was one of the most controversial provisions of the ACA, which contributed to its delayed...
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Tue, Feb 24 2015 9:10 AM
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How Menu Labeling Could Spark Change Beyond The Menu Board
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about catalyzing changes that prevent illness in the first place, it’s that passage of a single policy can be like lighting a match -- illuminating the way towards strategies with greater impact and igniting the energy...
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Tue, Feb 24 2015 9:00 AM
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Indirect Effects From Menu Labeling Can Improve The Public’s Health
Just this past November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released sweeping final rules requiring that calorie information be posted on menus, menu boards, and vending machines. The regulations expand the proposed rule to include a wide variety...
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Tue, Feb 24 2015 6:00 AM
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Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again: Consolidating Regulatory Authority Over Food Safety
The fragmented nature of regulatory authority over food in the United States is well known. More than a dozen federal agencies are responsible for the safety of the nation’s food supply. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Agriculture...
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Mon, Feb 23 2015 6:00 AM
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Implementing Health Reform: Final 2016 Letter To Federal Exchange Issuers
Each year the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases a letter to issuers (insurers) in the federally facilitated marketplace (FFM) setting out the ground rules for coverage through the FFM for the coming year. A draft letter is published...
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Sun, Feb 22 2015 6:18 PM
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Implementing Health Reform: 2016 Benefit And Payment Final Rule, Insurance Provisions
On November 21, 2014, the Centers on Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services released its final 2016 Benefit and Payment Parameter (BPP) Rule . (Fact sheet here .) My first post examined the provisions of this rule...
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Sun, Feb 22 2015 2:26 PM
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Implementing Health Reform: 2016 Benefit And Payment Final Rule, Consumer Provisions
On February 20, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the Department of Health and Human Services published its massive Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (BPP rule) for 2016 Final Rule , accompanied by a fact sheet . This...
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