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CBO Updates The Estimated Costs Of The Budget Reconciliation Act
Implementing Health Reform. On January 4, 2016, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated estimate of the cost of the Budget Reconciliation Act as passed by the Senate. The CBO now estimates that the legislation would reduce federal outlays...
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Tue, Jan 05 2016 10:13 AM
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Section 1557 Of The ACA Should Not Allow Some Physicians To Discriminate
Section 1557 is the primary nondiscrimination provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). It prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability by applying existing civil rights laws...
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Wed, Jan 06 2016 11:00 AM
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Medicare Part B
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ASPE Releases Enrollment Data From Healthcare.gov And State-Based Marketplaces
Implementing Health Reform. On January 7, 2016 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Evaluation and Planning (ASPE) released data on marketplace enrollment for both the states that used the Healthcare.gov enrollment...
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Fri, Jan 08 2016 8:29 AM
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Study On Highest-Markup Hospitals Leads The Pack OfHealth Affairs 2015 Top-Ten List
As 2016 begins, Health Affairs has tallied its ten most-read articles for 2015, an annual tradition. The most-read article, by Ge Bai of Washington and Lee University and Gerard Anderson of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, contains...
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Tue, Jan 12 2016 8:00 AM
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Health Affairs journal
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most read articles
The Battle Plan To Fight Diabetes And Obesity
From time to time, most strategic grant-making organizations review their programmatic priorities, assessing the needs and opportunities in a given area and figuring out what role a foundation could play in it. When the New York State Health Foundation...
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Wed, Jan 13 2016 3:45 PM
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Prevention
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States
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Health Philanthropy
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GrantWatch
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Population Health
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Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW
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Featured
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Diabetes
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Food and Health
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New York State
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Healthy Communities
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vulnerable populations
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Making Sense Out Of Differences In Per-Capita Medicare And Private Insurance Costs Within Geographic Settings
For over 40 years, researchers at Dartmouth have conducted small area variation analyses of older fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries ’ use of health care services to explore geographic variation in health care in the United States. Such studies have...
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Fri, Jan 15 2016 9:51 AM
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Dartmouth
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health care variation
Integrating Specialty Care Into Accountable Care Organizations: Perspectives From The Field
Integrating specialty care can be key for high performance and financial success for ACOs, as the most complicated and costly patient care usually is managed by specialists. A large portion of the cost in our health care system is driven by specialists...
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Tue, Jan 19 2016 6:14 AM
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Primary Care
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Innovations in Care Delivery
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Organization and Delivery
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Costs and Spending
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Accountable Care Organizations
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Health Professionals
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ACOs
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healthcare leaders
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specialty care
Health Affairs Web First: Wide Differences In Rural Health Information Technology Adoption
Over the past few years, health providers in the United States have been adopting health information technology. While prior national research has shown that rural providers have introduced health IT at the same, or greater, rates than their urban counterparts...
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Wed, Jan 20 2016 1:07 PM
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Health IT
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Elsewhere@ Health Affairs
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EHRs
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electronic health records
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Web First
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Mega Health Insurance Mergers: Is Bigger Really Better?
The health insurance industry has been rocked with the announcement of three large mergers: Aetna/Humana, Anthem/Cigna, and Centene/HealthNet. But many benefits of megamergers put forward by these companies will not materialize, and there will be few...
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Fri, Jan 22 2016 7:45 AM
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Featured
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insurers
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mergers
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concentrated markets
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insurer consolidation
Health Affairs In 2015: Editor’s Picks
As Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief, I have the pleasure of reading hundreds of articles — more, I’m sure, than most of our readers have time to read. I have selected my own “top ten” for 2015. The papers I chose go beyond our “most-read” articles...
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Tue, Jan 26 2016 9:15 AM
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Health Affairs Blog
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Once In A Weil
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Health Affairs journal
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most read articles
In The Marketplaces Some People May Not Be Able To Purchase The Second Lowest Cost Silver Plan
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) Marketplaces allow individuals and families to select and purchase health insurance, with premium subsidies available to qualified individuals to make coverage more affordable. Health insurance premiums vary considerably...
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Thu, Jan 28 2016 6:17 AM
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Hospice Payment Reforms Are A Modest Step Forward, But More Changes Are Needed
On August 6, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule to update the Medicare hospice payment rates and wage index. This change was made in response to Section 3132(a) of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which called...
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Mon, Jan 04 2016 8:19 AM
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End-of-Life Care
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Aging
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Payment Policy
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Insurance and Coverage
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Costs and Spending
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Long-term Services and Supports
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Home Health
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CMS
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MedPAC
Health Affairs January Issue: High-Cost Populations, Medicaid Spending, And More
The January issue of Health Affairs explores the diverse needs of the small share of the population that accounts for the largest share of health spending in the United States. The issue also contains two studies examining how the Affordable Care Act...
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Tue, Jan 05 2016 1:09 PM
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Global Health
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Hospitals
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Elsewhere@ Health Affairs
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ACA
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Health Professionals
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Medicaid expansion
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Health Affairs journal
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Substance Use Disorders
HHS And CVS Health Partner To Promote Consumer-Centered Preventive Services
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) and CVS Health recently formed a public-private partnership. This partnership aims to increase awareness of the availability of convenient...
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Thu, Jan 07 2016 10:09 AM
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Primary Care
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Population Health
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Organization and Delivery
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Health Professionals
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HHS
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preventative care
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ODPHP
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Minute Clinic
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retail clinics
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Healthfinder.gov
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CVS Health
Obama Vetoes ACA Repeal, And Other Health Reform Developments
Implementing Health Reform. On January 8, 2016, President Obama to the surprise of no one vetoed HR 3762, the budget reconciliation act that sought to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In his veto message , the President laid out the potential consequences...
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Sat, Jan 09 2016 2:55 PM
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