May 2016 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Twenty-First Century Medicaid: The Final Managed Care Rule

With enrollment reaching 74 percent of all beneficiaries , it is clear that managed care has become the standard organizing mechanism for a Medicaid program whose welfare roots are behind it and that now functions as a principal source of public insurance...

Published Thu, May 05 2016 12:00 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, medical loss ratio, MACRA, MACRA final rule, managed care organizations, federal regulations

Knowledge Is Power: Improving Health Care Information For The Most Vulnerable

In health care, being an informed consumer is essential to promoting positive outcomes. Whether the issue is finding affordable care where prices vary widely , minimizing harm from medical errors, or just finding a provider, knowledge is power. Navigating...

Published Wed, May 25 2016 3:26 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Consumers, Global Health, Quality, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Featured, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, caregivers, pharmacists, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, health information, Spanis-speakers

Integrating Health Care And Housing To Promote Healthy Aging

One of the most important public health findings over the last several decades has been that there are a number of factors, beyond medical care, which influence health status and contribute to premature mortality. Of these factors, social circumstances...

Published Mon, May 23 2016 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Medicare, Quality, Aging, Population Health, Costs and Spending, Long-term Services and Supports, New York, MACRA, Housing, seniors, falls prevention, money follows the person

CMMI’s New Comprehensive Primary Care Plus: Its Promise And Missed Opportunities

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI, or “the Innovation Center”) recently announced an initiative called Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+). It evolved from the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, which began in 2012 and...

Published Tue, May 31 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Quality, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, CMMI, ACOs, Alternative Payment Models, PCMHs, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

High-Quality Health Care For Resettled Refugees: A Sustainable Model

Like Sisyphus pushing the boulder to the top of the hill, efforts to end the Syrian civil war have been equally futile. According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, the violence in Syria has forced 4.8 million refugees to flee their...

Published Wed, May 04 2016 3:23 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Primary Care, States, Coverage, Access, Global Health, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, New York State

We’re Failing Adolescents And Families Coping With Behavioral Health Issues

During my twenty-five years as president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) , I have learned how to help people navigate the health care system. But I have struck out miserably when it comes to helping people facing behavioral health issues...

Published Tue, May 31 2016 5:53 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Access, Quality, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Effectiveness, Mental Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Behavioral Health, behavioral service needs, adolescents

Preventing A Thousand Flints: Getting Reform Of Chemical Regulation Right

The contamination of water with lead in Flint, Michigan has rightly refocused national attention on the ongoing tragedy of childhood lead exposure in the United States. As John Oliver has rightly and wittily noted , water is but one source of exposure;...

Published Mon, May 23 2016 12:01 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Environmental Health, Featured, Drugs and Medical Technology, Michigan, Flint, Lead poisoning, EPA, Toxic Substances Control Act

Place Matters: Making The United States The Healthiest Nation, Community By Community

Our health is affected by more than what happens in the doctor’s office. The factors that can make or break our health include the many societal conditions we face on a daily basis—determinants such as access to fresh foods, neighborhood walkability,...

Published Thu, May 19 2016 12:39 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Counties, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Equity and Disparities, cities, Smoking Prevention, Native Americans, food deserts, tribes

Addressing “Triggers Of Decline” In Older Adults’ Physical, Cognitive, Or Mental Health

By 2030, 70 million Americans —that’s one in five—will be over the age of sixty-five. As more and more people hit that magical number every day, we likely have a picture in our minds of what a “healthy” older adult looks like—maybe going for walks, socializing...

Published Tue, May 10 2016 12:23 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Consumers, Chronic Care, Medicare, Quality, Medicaid, Aging, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care for the Elderly, Medicaid and CHIP, New York State, American Community Survey, Census data, older adults, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, dual eligibles

A Creative Plan That Could Help Providers Ineligible For Meaningful Use Not Get Left Behind In The Paper World

The Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs—commonly known as meaningful use—have been credited with increasing adoption of EHRs among hospitals and ambulatory care providers . Long-term care, public health...

Published Wed, May 25 2016 8:06 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Medicare, Hospitals, Featured, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, ONC, EHRs, State Innovation Model, MACRA, health information exchange, meaningful use

The Tangled Hospital-Physician Relationship

Together, hospital and physician services account for more than half of national health spending. In its 2014 National Health Expenditures estimates, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ actuaries make the hospital (nearly $1 trillion) and...

Published Mon, May 09 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, ACOs, EMTALA, MACRA, Medicare Part B, Bundled Payments

EEOC Rules Allow Significant Rewards, Penalties In Connection With Wellness Program Participation

Implementing Health Reform. Workplace wellness programs are controversial. Employers believe that they improve employee health, reduce absenteeism, and cut the cost of employee health benefit programs. Employers are encouraged in this belief by wellness...

Published Tue, May 17 2016 11:06 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, EEOC, HIPPA, GINA, ADA

Patients Are The New Partners In Reproductive Health Research

I was 14 when I assisted my mother in giving birth to my brother, Benjamin. My step father worked the swing shift seven days a week, which meant my mother and I were each other’s primary support systems. After learning she had gone into labor, I arrived...

Published Wed, May 18 2016 9:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Women's Health, California, Patient Engagement, contraceptives, Reproductive Health, safety-net providers, patient use of evidence

Patient-Driven Research Will Lead To Better Health

The role of patients in health research is changing dramatically. Once considered simply study “subjects,” today patients play a meaningful and critical role in research. Such involvement ensures study results are more useful to them as well as others...

Published Thu, May 19 2016 11:15 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Health Professionals, FDA, 21st Century Cures Act, PCORI, patient use of evidence, patient-centered outcomes research

It’s Time To Restore A Sense Of Mission To Mental Health

In 1940, when the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health was born, the set of questions and challenges facing the foundation and its allies were catastrophic in scale. The world was going to war. The nation was only just beginning to recover from an economic...

Published Tue, May 03 2016 12:05 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Mental Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, violence, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, wellness

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