February 2015 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

How Open Data Can Reveal—And Correct—The Faults In Our Health System

In April 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released millions of lines of Medicare Part B physician payment data , that led many researchers, analysts, journalists, and the general public to use the data to answer a number of pressing health...

Published Wed, Feb 18 2015 12:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Research, Big Data

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...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Health Care Costs, Business of Health Care

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...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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...

Published Wed, Feb 18 2015 9:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Coverage

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...

Published Thu, Feb 12 2015 9:08 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Spending, Coverage, Medicaid, Health Law, Health Care Delivery

Implementing Health Reform: New Enrollment Opportunity For Those Subject To 2014 Penalty

In our Health Affairs Blog post of November 7, 2014, Brian Haile and I recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) create a special enrollment period to allow individuals who had to pay the individual responsibility penalty for...

Published Fri, Feb 20 2015 11:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

What Ebola Teaches Us About Public Health In America

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...

Published Mon, Feb 09 2015 12:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Health Affairs Event Reminder: 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 February 2015 thematic issue of Health Affairs examines...

Published Tue, Feb 03 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health IT, Innovation, Technology, Biotech, Science and Health, Research, HA_BiomedInnovation

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...

Published Fri, Feb 20 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Health Law, Science and Health, Research

The Puzzle Of Antibiotic Innovation

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...

Published Tue, Feb 03 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Access, Pharma, Global Health, Innovation, Science and Health, Research

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...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Law

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...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2015 7:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Global Health, Quality, AIDS

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...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2015 9:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Primary Care, Access, Quality, Health Care Delivery

Health Affairs Web First: Recent US Hospital Productivity Growth

Between 2002 and 2011, US hospitals increased their productivity in treating Medicare patients for several serious illnesses, refuting fears about a “cost disease” in health care and potentially mitigating concerns about provider payment under the Affordable...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2015 1:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Research, Business of Health Care

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...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Innovation

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