February 2015 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

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

Implementing Health Reform: Open Enrollment Closes, But Doors Remain Ajar

The 2015 open enrollment period is now closed, but the marketplace doors are still cracked open. On February 15 and 16 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offered additional assistance for those not enrolled before February 16. CMS has first...

Published Mon, Feb 16 2015 7:44 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: President Obama’s FY 2016 Budget And The ACA

On February 2, 2015, President Obama released his FY 2016 budget , which includes funding for the Affordable Care Act. The President’s budget, of course, is only on opening bid in negotiations that will proceed over the coming months until the government...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2015 5:54 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Request For Abstracts: Health Affairs Food And Health Theme Issue

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on food and health in November 2015. The issue will present work that explores the relationship between the food we consume and our wellbeing on the individual, societal, and global levels. Articles will address...

Published Wed, Feb 04 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Policy, Access, Global Health, Environmental Health, Science and Health, Research

The Payment Reform Landscape: Price Transparency Tools Better But Not Good Enough

Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) will spend significant time in 2015 looking at the features payment reform programs must have to be workable for purchasers and sustainable for providers. We look forward to sharing in this space what we learn, as we...

Published Fri, Feb 06 2015 8:28 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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

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....

Published Fri, Feb 20 2015 7:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Pharma, Comparative Effectiveness, Innovation, Research, Business of Health Care

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...

Published Sun, Feb 22 2015 6:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Access, Pharma, Disparities

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

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...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2015 12:27 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Pharma, Quality, Innovation, Big Data

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

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

Oregon Bridges The Gap Between Health Care And Community-Based Health

It is now commonly accepted that to achieve health, the U.S. health system must address the social determinants of health. While the integration of health care with social services and public health is happening relatively infrequently across the country...

Published Thu, Feb 12 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Prevention, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, States, Quality, Medicaid, Innovation, Effectiveness, Health Care Delivery

In The Debate About Cost And Efficacy, PCSK9 Inhibitors May Be The Biggest Challenge Yet

The American health care system is far and away the most costly in the world. Health care reform is intended to lower costs, but they are still rising, albeit less steeply than in the past. Moderation is not however the case in the area of specialty pharmacy...

Published Tue, Feb 17 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Spending, Pharma, Cost, Health Care Delivery

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...

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

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Pharma, Long-Term Care, Business of Health Care

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