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The New Congressional Effort To Undermine The Affordable Care Act

For the 61st time since 2011, Congressional Republicans are moving legislation to undermine and dismantle key elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This time, though, will be different. First, this will be the first time Republicans will use the...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2015 10:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Planned Parenthood, ACA repeal, Republicans, Ways and Means, reconcilliation, Paul Ryan
Time To Implement IOM Health IT Recommendations For Improving Diagnosis

One year ago, we highlighted missed opportunities in diagnosis of a patient who presented with Ebola in Dallas, Texas; a harmful misdiagnosis with substantial public health implications. Acknowledging human errors were also made, we emphasized specific...

Published Fri, Oct 09 2015 9:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Health IT, Quality, Hospitals, Featured, Ebola, ONC, Institute of Medicine, diagnostic error, diagnosis, EHR user experience
Legislative Efforts To Repeal Key Provisions Of The Affordable Care Act

Implementing Health Reform. On October 9, 2015 the House of Representatives Budget Committee approved budget reconciliation legislation intended to repeal key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As is well known, budget reconciliation is an expedited...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2015 8:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, ACA, Affordable Care Act, health care law, House, Senate
Spanish-Language Mobile App Helps To Extend Health Coverage Safety Net

Sweeping reforms to the US health care system now require consumers to understand complex health plans, become more aware of the costs of their care, and make related decisions independently. This presents a challenge for all health care consumers; the...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2015 4:24 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Access, Disparities, Technology, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, Hispanics, Spanish language, Latino, New York City
Narrative Matters: Poems On The Cancer Experience

Editor’s note: This spring, Health Affairs held its first ever poetry contest. Three winning poems were published in the journal . We’re also featuring some of our other favorites on the Blog throughout the month of October. Medicine Sundays after church...

Published Thu, Oct 15 2015 1:18 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, narrative medicine, Cancer, Narrative Matters poetry, patient experience
Instructions For Reconciling Tax Credits, Basic Health Plan Funding Methodology Released

Implementing Health Reform. Tax Form 8962 Draft Instructions On October 20, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released draft instructions for the 2015 form 8962. Form 8962 is the form that taxpayers use to reconcile the advance premium tax credits (APTC...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2015 10:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, IRS, Basic Health Program, advanced premium tax credits
The State Of Medicaid In New York: Progress And The Road To Value-Based Payments

As states throughout the nation work to change how health care is delivered and paid for, New York is undertaking its largest effort yet to transform the state’s Medicaid health care delivery and payment system through the Delivery System Reform Incentive...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2015 7:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program, New York State
Hospital Community Benefit: How Partnerships Can Support Healthy Communities

With the increased focus on broader determinants of health, health foundations are asked to think and act more expansively and creatively about how to support health. In many ways, public health is getting back to its roots in doing so: the idea that...

Published Thu, Oct 22 2015 1:43 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Hospitals, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Community Development, Healthy Communities, Hospital community benefit
Healthcare.gov Improvements And New Investigative Reports

Implementing Health Reform. On October 23, the House of Representatives passed with a nearly party-line vote of 240 to 189 a budget reconciliation act intended to repeal key provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The terms and import of this bill were...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2015 3:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, open enrollment, ACA Marketplace, social security, budget reconciliation, insurance fraud
Moral Failure And Health Costs: Two Simplistic Spending Narratives

What to do about the seemingly inexorable rise in health spending has been the central health policy challenge for two generations of health economists and policymakers. In 1965, before Medicare and Medicaid, health spending was about 5.8 percent of GDP...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2015 10:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Medicare, Hospitals, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, Long-term Services and Supports, Affordable Care Act, physician payment, conservative, progressive
New ASPE Report Highlights Benefits Of Returning To The Marketplace

Implementing Health Reform. On October 28, 2015, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) for the Department of Health and Human Services released a report on Decisions Regarding Health Plan Choices in the 2014 and 2015 Marketplaces...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2015 2:29 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, open enrollment, cost-sharing reduction payments, Federally Facilitated Marketplace, Assistant Secretary for Evaluation and Planning
Genetic Information Safeguards And Wellness Programs; 2016 Marketplace Coverage

Implementing Health Reform (October 29 update). On October 30, 2015, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a proposed rule concerning the application of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) to employer wellness programs...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2015 8:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities
Implementing Health Reform: Risk Corridor Claims By Insurers Far Exceed Contributions

On October 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the total of collections and payouts under the risk corridor premium stabilization program for 2014. CMS announced that insurers have submitted $2.87 billion in risk corridor...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2015 5:46 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Implementing Health Reform, reinsurance program, risk corridor program, risk adjustment program
Measuring What Matters In Primary Care

Editor’s Note: This is one of several posts Health Affairs Blog is publishing stemming from sessions at the June 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Minneapolis. What Do We Mean By ‘Primary Care’ Numerous studies have confirmed the central...

Published Tue, Oct 06 2015 11:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Medicare, Access, Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, fee-for-service, chronic conditions, Whole-Person Accountability, quality performance measures, primary care research, coordinated care, clinician productivity, comprehensive care, continuous care, AcademyHealth 2015 ARM
Narrative Matters: Poetry Meets Health Care

This month you might notice something a little different about the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs . For October, instead of the personal stories about health care that readers typically find in the section, we’re featuring three thought-provoking...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2015 7:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Narrative Matters, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, Health Professionals, poetry, narrative medicine, patients, Narrative Matters poetry

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The New Congressional Effort To Undermine The Affordable Care Act

Time To Implement IOM Health IT Recommendations For Improving Diagnosis

Legislative Efforts To Repeal Key Provisions Of The Affordable Care Act

Spanish-Language Mobile App Helps To Extend Health Coverage Safety Net

Narrative Matters: Poems On The Cancer Experience

Instructions For Reconciling Tax Credits, Basic Health Plan Funding Methodology Released

The State Of Medicaid In New York: Progress And The Road To Value-Based Payments

Hospital Community Benefit: How Partnerships Can Support Healthy Communities

Healthcare.gov Improvements And New Investigative Reports

Moral Failure And Health Costs: Two Simplistic Spending Narratives

New ASPE Report Highlights Benefits Of Returning To The Marketplace

Genetic Information Safeguards And Wellness Programs; 2016 Marketplace Coverage

Implementing Health Reform: Risk Corridor Claims By Insurers Far Exceed Contributions

Measuring What Matters In Primary Care

Narrative Matters: Poetry Meets Health Care