April 2017 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Unusual Community Partnerships Offer New Mental Health Interventions

The landscape of health care innovation is complex and vast, and often leads to a global web of conversations that, very often, run parallel without ever intersecting to collaborate. That space where innovators are working at the fringe toward a similar...

Published Thu, Apr 06 2017 10:47 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Care Costs, Access, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Mental Health, Health Care Delivery, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Police, youth mental health, Emergency departments, Prisons, Jails

ACA Round-Up: New Unified Rate Review Instructions, Redesigned QHP Website, And More

On April 6, 2017, Congress headed home for its spring recess having not achieved the Republican leadership’s goal of repealing, replacing, or repairing the Affordable Care Act. But even as these efforts go on, so does the life of the ACA. On April 7,...

Published Mon, Apr 10 2017 8:25 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, CMS, CMS Innovation Center

Value Frameworks For Rare Diseases: Should They Be Different?

The US health care system is increasingly focusing on value as a basis for reimbursement of pharmacotherapies and devices, and as a result the use of “value frameworks” for measuring and comparing treatment value has grown in recent years. However, the...

Published Wed, Apr 12 2017 7:12 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Costs and Spending, Precision Medicine, Drugs and Medical Innovation, Orphan Drug Act, treatment value, rare disease treatment, value frameworks

Discrimination Against Patients With Substance Use Disorders Remains Prevalent And Harmful: The Case For 42 CFR Part 2

The authors of a recent Health Affairs Blog post argue that 42 CFR Part 2 , the law designed to protect confidentiality of patients with substance use disorders, is outdated and unnecessary. We could not disagree more. 42 CFR Part 2 provides bedrock protections...

Published Thu, Apr 13 2017 7:05 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Population Health, Featured, HIPAA, opioid epidemic, substance use treatment, patient privacy, patient discrimination, 24 CFR Part 2

Balancing The Use Of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Across All Types Of Health Care Innovations

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is an important tool for assessing and pointing the way toward better health care efficiency. The number of published CEAs on health care interventions has blossomed, averaging 34 per year in the 1990 to 1999 time frame...

Published Fri, Apr 14 2017 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Costs and Spending, health equity, cost-effectiveness, cost effectiveness analysis, Drugs and Medical Innovation, Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

What Standing Rock Teaches Us About Environmental Racism And Justice

Access to clean, safe, and affordable drinking water is not just a concern of developing countries but of communities in our own backyard. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North and South Dakota, for instance, relies on Lake Oahe, a 231-mile reservoir...

Published Mon, Apr 17 2017 7:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Environmental Health, Population Health, Featured, health equity, Native Americans, environmental equity, water insecurity, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Dakota Access Pipeline, enironmental racism, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Water Rule, DAPL

ACA Round-Up: Risk Corridor Suit Dismissed As Premature; Supreme Court Ends Challenge To ‘Administrative Fix’

On April 18, 2017, federal court of claims judge Lydia Griggsby dismissed a risk corridor lawsuit brought by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC). The case was one of approximately two dozen lawsuits now pending in the federal court of...

Published Wed, Apr 19 2017 11:40 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, risk corridors, West Virginia v. the Department of Health and Human Services

A New Attempt Emerges To Bridge GOP Divisions On AHCA

On April 20, 2017, a one-page summary of amendments to the American Health Care Act proposed by Congressman Tom MacArthur (R.N.J.) surfaced. It is dated April 13, 2017 and has been presumably been under discussion for a week. It is reportedly a compromise...

Published Thu, Apr 20 2017 12:57 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending

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