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Building Sustainable Partnerships To Improve Access To *** Cancer Treatment For Uninsured Women

*** cancer is a terrifying disease for most women. In the United States, it is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women ages twenty to fifty-nine years . More than 5,100 women are diagnosed with—and at least 1,100 women die from—*** cancer in New...

Published Tue, Jun 20 2017 10:34 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Access, Hospitals, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, Uninsured, breast cancer, New York City, payment model, imaging and radiology centers
Unpacking The Senate’s Take On ACA Repeal And Replace

On June 22, 2017, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the Senate GOP’s version of Affordable Care Act repeal, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 . The Senate bill is in many respects quite different from the House’s American...

Published Thu, Jun 22 2017 7:05 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP
ACA Round-Up: QHP Application Deadline Passes, House v. Price, Special Enrollment Periods

June 21, 2017, was the last day for insurers to file qualified health plan applications in the 39 states that use HealthCare.gov, including federally facilitated marketplace (FFM), plan management, and state-based marketplace-federal platform states....

Published Sat, Jun 24 2017 6:11 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, special enrollment periods, house v. price
Amended Senate Bill Includes Waiting Period for Those Who Let Coverage Lapse

On June 26, 2017, the Republican Leadership released an amended version of the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act. It is very similar to the version they released on June 22, but includes two changes. First, it amends a couple of provisions of the...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2017 12:22 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, coverage gap, ACA repeal and replace, waiting period
A Health Care War On The Poor

Many criticisms have been leveled against the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the Better Care Reconciliation Act- the new Senate health bill offered by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The unmistakable hallmark of these bills, however...

Published Tue, Jun 27 2017 7:25 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Trumpcare, AHCA
Making Investments In Rural Health: What Are The New And Old Challenges?

Fairly early in the day of November 9, 2016, the frenzy began. It was the day after Election Day 2016. Enormous swaths of rural Americans had helped to deliver a presidential candidate over the finish line who promoted ideas and plans that were antithetical...

Published Wed, Jun 28 2017 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Politics, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, health equity, rural health, 2016 election, equity, Office of Rural Health Policy
How Health Care And Community-Based Human Services Organizations Are Partnering for Better Health Outcomes

While the headlines focus on the latest twists and turns of health care politics and policies, a tectonic shift is happening in America’s approach to health, with innovations that show promise in terms of better outcomes, better quality of care, and lower...

Published Thu, Jun 29 2017 10:44 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, community-based organizations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, human services organizations, Center for Health Care Strategies
ACA Round-Up: Litigation Over Cost-Sharing Reductions And Reinsurance Fees, Tax Filings, And More

On May 30 the House of Representatives filed its response to the motion of attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia asking that the stay in House v. Price be lifted and that they be allowed to intervene in the appeal. The federal...

Published Thu, Jun 01 2017 2:09 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, risk corridor payments, house v. price
On Objections To Contraceptive Coverage, Trump Administration Appears Set To Reverse Obama Approach

On May 30, 2017, a draft of an interim final rule promulgated by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury, addressing conscience-based objections to the coverage of contraceptives under the preventive services requirement of the...

Published Fri, Jun 02 2017 10:11 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Women's Health, contraceptive coverage, Preventive Services Mandate, HRSA, ERISA
The CBO’s Updated Estimate Of The AHCA

On May 24, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its assessment of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) . The estimate reflects the impact of two amendments that were key to the US House of Representatives’ passage of the bill three weeks earlier...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2017 4:47 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Congressional Budget Office, American Health Care Act
Replicating Effective Models Of Complex Care Management For Older Adults

Improving our system of care for older adults with complex, chronic illnesses requires wrestling with a vexing dilemma. Models of care that are readily scalable have limited effectiveness, and effective models are difficult to scale. As an example of...

Published Wed, Jun 07 2017 6:44 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Costs and Spending, Diffusion of Innovation, Health Quality Partners, chronically ill older adults, complex care management, health and aging
The Private Sector Can Lead In Delivery System And Payment Reform

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a five-part Health Affairs Blog series, produced in conjunction with the Bipartisan Policy Center, examining current issues and care models in the delivery system reform effort. Each post will be jointly authored by...

Published Thu, Jun 08 2017 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, reference pricing, CalPERS, shoppable services, bipartisan delivery system reform
Nursing Home Certificate-Of-Need Laws Should Be Repealed

Imagine if your state had a regulation explicitly limiting the number of hotels in a local area. Rather than letting the market dictate the supply of hotel beds, the number of beds would be set by a regulatory body. One does not need a degree in economics...

Published Fri, Jun 09 2017 7:34 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Featured, Medicaid and CHIP, nursing homes, roemer's law, certificate-of-need laws
Two Things Health Researchers And Allies Can Do Right Now To Advance LGBT Research

Editor’s note : In a related piece, former US Assistant Secretary for Aging and administrator of the Administration for Community Living Kathy Greenlee also reflects on the elimination of the sexual orientation and gender identity measure from the National...

Published Mon, Jun 12 2017 8:50 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Population Health, Featured, health equity, LGBT issues, Census data, sexual orientation and gender identity, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
What To Expect When You Are Managing A Population Health Coalition

Collaboration among a litany of health care and community-based organizations (CBOs) has become a popular approach to pursuing health improvements in cities and towns across the United States. Examples of cross-sector coalitions can be found in the work...

Published Tue, Jun 13 2017 9:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Politics, Hospitals, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Population Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, community-based organizations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Research & Educational Trust

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Building Sustainable Partnerships To Improve Access To *** Cancer Treatment For Uninsured Women

Unpacking The Senate’s Take On ACA Repeal And Replace

ACA Round-Up: QHP Application Deadline Passes, House v. Price, Special Enrollment Periods

Amended Senate Bill Includes Waiting Period for Those Who Let Coverage Lapse

A Health Care War On The Poor

Making Investments In Rural Health: What Are The New And Old Challenges?

How Health Care And Community-Based Human Services Organizations Are Partnering for Better Health Outcomes

ACA Round-Up: Litigation Over Cost-Sharing Reductions And Reinsurance Fees, Tax Filings, And More

On Objections To Contraceptive Coverage, Trump Administration Appears Set To Reverse Obama Approach

The CBO’s Updated Estimate Of The AHCA

Replicating Effective Models Of Complex Care Management For Older Adults

The Private Sector Can Lead In Delivery System And Payment Reform

Nursing Home Certificate-Of-Need Laws Should Be Repealed

Two Things Health Researchers And Allies Can Do Right Now To Advance LGBT Research

What To Expect When You Are Managing A Population Health Coalition