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National Health Spending: A Return To The ‘Old Normal?’
The year 2015 may be the year that we said goodbye to what some have called the “new normal” of health care spending. It’s becoming ever more clear that the unexpected and remarkably consistent slowdown in health care spending that began in the early...
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Wed, Dec 14 2016 7:00 AM
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CMS Acts On Premium Payments By Dialysis Facilities, Special Enrollment Period Eligibility
Insurers that participate in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces have complained that that enrollment eligibility rules are being abused in ways that have increased the cost of marketplace coverage and destabilized the marketplace risk pools. On December...
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Tue, Dec 13 2016 11:39 AM
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open enrollment
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dialysis
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special enrollment periods
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end-stage renal disease
The Costs And Benefits Of Health Spending In 2015
On December 2, Anne Martin and the actuarial team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their estimates of national health spending for 2015 . The headline news was that health expenditure growth has increased relative to prior...
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Tue, Dec 13 2016 9:00 AM
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A Vote To Reimagine Residency
I can’t say I knew much about medicine when I decided to become a physician. There were no physicians in my family. I had yet to learn about cells, anatomy, or antibiotics. I didn’t watch ER . I had no concept of health insurance, deductibles, or co-pays...
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Tue, Dec 13 2016 7:30 AM
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Building A System That Works: The Future Of Health Care
Nearly a century after Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party first called for health insurance reform, the United States has made major advances in access, quality, and affordability. In the six years since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act...
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Sun, Dec 11 2016 9:10 PM
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Health Professionals
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MACRA
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Bundled Payments
Cures Act Offers Tax-Favored Vehicle For Small Employers To Pay Premiums, And More
On December 7, Congress passed the 824-page 21st Century Cures Act and sent it on to the president for his promised signature. The Cures Act will undoubtedly bring about major changes in our health care system. But, other than raiding the Affordable Care...
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Fri, Dec 09 2016 12:07 PM
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health reimbursement arrangement
What’s The Story With Obamacare?
States, patients, and voters are wrestling with the pros and cons of dramatic changes in public health insurance coverage, including extending, maintaining, or rolling back Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) — an often...
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Fri, Dec 09 2016 7:00 AM
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Accelerating Health System Transformation By Disrupting The Status Quo
However the nation’s policies evolve in the months ahead, one thing is clear—how policy makers meet our health and health care challenges remains among the core questions we face as a country. Going back to the time of former President Teddy Roosevelt...
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Thu, Dec 08 2016 11:26 AM
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GrantWatch
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Trump Plan To Increase Health Savings Accounts Should Ensure That They Do Not Only Benefit The Wealthy And Healthy
One of the reforms proposed as part of the Trump health platform is to “allow individuals to use Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).” This increased emphasis on HSAs is a clarion call for more understanding about how to make HSAs work so that they are equitable...
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Thu, Dec 08 2016 7:30 AM
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health savings accounts
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Five Reasons The ACA Won’t Be Repealed
Since November 8, a chill has descended among individuals nationwide who are involved with or otherwise care about health care. Like sheep herded to their fate, there has been a resignation that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be repealed, taking with...
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Wed, Dec 07 2016 9:00 AM
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Trumpcare
Taking Stock Of Health Reform: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going
Almost from the moment of its inauguration in 2009, the Obama administration has struggled, often against adamant resistance, to enact and implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The 2016 election has brought to power opponents of the ACA who will control...
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Tue, Dec 06 2016 9:15 AM
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Following the ACA
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Insurance and Coverage
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Medicaid and CHIP
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Congress
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ACA replacement
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Republicans
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Obamacare
Rewarding Provider Performance: Ten Years In
Editor’s note: When we read Sharon Long and colleagues’ retrospective on Massachusetts health reform at 10 years in the September issue of Health Affairs we were reminded just what a busy year 2006 was for health policy writ large (in addition to wondering...
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Tue, Dec 06 2016 7:30 AM
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Physicians
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Health Professionals
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MACRA
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Alternative Payment Models
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value-based payment
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2006
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Physician Quality Reporting System
Health Affairs Issue: Oral Health And More
The December issue of Health Affairs explores the state of oral health . Editor-in-chief Alan Weil writes that “the divide between dental care and medical care is vast, has significant consequences for patients, and is entirely of our own making.” More...
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Mon, Dec 05 2016 1:00 PM
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Oral Health
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Dental Care
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Elsewhere@ Health Affairs
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Court Stays Cost-Sharing Reduction Payment Case, Giving Control To New Administration And Congress
On December 5, 2016, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia acceded to the request of the House of Representatives and stayed further proceedings in House v. Burwell pending further motions by the parties, due by February 21, 2017....
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Mon, Dec 05 2016 11:42 AM
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House v. Burwell
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How NashvilleHealth Is Maximizing Community Population Health
How can Main Street, America, move the needle in a city’s population health and wellbeing? It begins with a solid, organizational structure built for the long term. I fondly call my hometown, Nashville, the “Silicon Valley of Health Services.” With...
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Mon, Dec 05 2016 9:00 AM
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Tennessee
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Community Health
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Nashville
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