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Implementing Health Reform: Preliminary 2015 Enrollment Numbers; Guidances
As probably every reader of this blog knows by now, the Department of Health and Human Services released preliminary totals for plan selection for the 2015 open enrollment period on February 18, 2015. Over 1 million individuals enrolled through the federally...
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The Need For Publicly Funded Trials To Get Unbiased Comparative Effectiveness Data
Comparative effectiveness research was one of the hotly debated components of the Affordable Care Act. The pharmaceutical industry is marketing driven, with pharmaceutical companies spending more on marketing than they do on research and development....
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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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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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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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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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How Hepatitis C Is Shining A Light On Critical Gaps In Payment Reform
Since December 2013, regulatory approval of new treatments for hepatitis C have brought long simmering debates on drug pricing and value to full boil. The drugs---Gilead’s Sovaldi and successor combination treatment Harvoni , AbbVie’s Viekira Pak ---represent...
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Tue, Feb 03 2015 6:00 AM
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How The Ebola Crisis Could Help Save 75,000 Patients
It has taken an epidemic in West Africa to expose a troubling issue for U.S. hospitals and health policy: the short shrift given infection prevention. In a thoughtful December Health Affairs Blog post , Dr. Leonard Mermel, an epidemiologist and infection...
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Wed, Feb 04 2015 8:00 AM
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How To Restore The Innovation Ecosystem For Medical Technology
The recent February issue of Health Affairs , which features a series of articles on innovation, provides us with an opportunity to examine the state of America’s innovation ecosystem for medical technology. This ecosystem has produced a myriad of medical...
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Tue, Feb 10 2015 6:00 AM
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Implementing Health Reform: Enrollment Figures, Tax Forms, And More
We are rapidly reaching the end of the 2015 open enrollment period, and the pace of enrollment seems to be picking up a bit. On February 11, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their enrollment snapshot for week twelve...
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Thu, Feb 12 2015 9:08 PM
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Vaccinating Against Iron-Deficiency Anemia: A New Technology For Maternal And Child Health
When we think of killer diseases of global health importance, iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is not something that immediately comes to mind. Yet the December 2014 publication of leading causes of death by the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 reveals...
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Thu, Feb 19 2015 6:00 AM
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In Regulating E-Cigarettes, No Easy Fix For The FDA
Sometime in the next few months, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to issue the so-called deeming regulations, which will open the door to the federal regulation of e-cigarettes. In considering whether to issue the regulations, which...
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Fri, Feb 20 2015 9:00 AM
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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: 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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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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