May 2015 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

As Employers Try To Avoid The Cadillac Tax, Treasury And The IRS Need To Act

When Congress passed the ACA, the law’s so-called Cadillac tax was touted as targeting lavish health plans, supposedly rare but costly. However, the economic reality today is that the excise tax will hurt everyday workers and the health benefits they...

Published Tue, May 12 2015 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA, health care, IRS, Excise tax, Cadillac tax

Putting Data To Work To Improve Health

Editor’s note: Chris Boone will be answering questions during a live Health Affairs Twitter Q&A, Friday, May 15, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. ET using #healthdatanow . The health data movement started with a call for open health data. In 2010, the Institute...

Published Thu, May 14 2015 1:39 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Health IT, Big Data, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Patient Engagement, Health Data, Chris Boone, Health Data Consortium, Health Datapalooza, open data

New Health Policy Brief: Medicaid Primary Care Parity

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) examines how states have dealt with the expiration of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid primary care fee bump. This provision required states to raise Medicaid...

Published Wed, May 13 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Medicaid, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Payment Policy, Medicaid and CHIP, RWJF, Health Policy Briefs, fee-for-service

Successful Acute Care Payment Reform Requires Working With The Emergency Department

Note : The work reflected in this post and o ur May 6 th MEDTalk , “ Reimagining Emergency Medicine: Moving to Integrated Care for the Ill and Injured ," is made possible through the Merkin Initiative on Physician Payment Reform and Clinical Leadership...

Published Tue, May 05 2015 5:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Emergency Medicine, Innovations in Care Delivery, Featured, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Alternative Payment Methodology, ER For Emergencies, Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Threat To Global Health?

Lost in the political discussions over the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a trade agreement currently being negotiated in secret between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific-Rim nations—is the very real negative impact it would have...

Published Fri, May 08 2015 10:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, TPP, obama trade deal, Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership, fair trade, generic drugs, Doctors Without Borders

*** Cancer Screening: Let Evidence Trump Fear

Once again, the United States Preventive Services Task Force’s latest draft report on the potential benefits and harms of mammography screening was met by outcries from radiologists and others that thousands of women would die if the recommendations were...

Published Fri, May 15 2015 8:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, mammography, over treatment, false positives, early diagnosis, breast cancer, United States Preventive Services Task Force

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