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Unpacking The Burr-Hatch-Upton Plan

Anticipating the upcoming Supreme Court decision on King v. Burwell , which could halt health insurance subsidies available through the federal exchange, Republican Senators Richard Burr and Orrin Hatch joined with Representative Fred Upton to propose...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2015 11:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Public Opinion, Health Care Costs, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Workforce, Hospitals, Medicaid, Health Law, Health Care Delivery

Early Evidence On Medicare ACOs And Next Steps For The Medicare ACO Program

Note: Pratyusha Katikaneni and Carmen Diaz also contributed to this post. They are both research assistants at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institution. On December 1, CMS released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2015 10:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals

Unpacking The Medicare Shared Savings Proposed Rule: Geography And Policy

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The rulemaking contains several proposals that if enacted...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2015 10:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals

Health Affairs Web First: National Health Spending In 2013 Continued Pattern Of Low Growth

A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that in 2013 health care spending in the United States grew at a rate of 3.6 percent in 2013 to $2.9 trillion, or $9,255 per person. The increase...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2014 1:10 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals

US Health Spending Growth Projected To Average 5.8 Percent Annually Through 2022

New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) project that aggregate health care spending in the United States will grow at an average annual rate of 5.8 percent for 2012–22, or 1.0...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2013 1:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

Making Sense Of Geographic Variations In Health Care: The New IOM Report

Since 1973, when Jack Wennberg published his first paper describing geographic variations in health care, researchers have argued about both the magnitude and the causes of variation. The argument gained greater policy relevance as U.S. health care spending...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2013 9:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals

Hospital Charges And The Need For A Maximum Price Obligation Rule For Emergency Department & Out-Of-Network Care

The release of average charges for common procedures in more than 3,000 U. S. hospitals last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) elicited divergent reactions – not surprisingly. On one hand, it was front-page news for most of...

Published Thu, May 05 2013 12:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Hospitals

Where Is Health Spending Headed? Some Reactions To The CMS Report

For the third year in a row, national health spending in 2011 grew less than 4 percent, according to the CMS Office of the Actuary. However, the report said modest rebounds in pharmaceutical spending and physician visits pointed toward an acceleration...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 9:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Access, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

P4P Concerns, Medicare Vs. Private Insurance Lead HA Blog’s 2012 Most-Read List

Will pay for performance in health care backfire? That was the question addressed through the lens of behavioral economics by Steffie Woolhandler, Dan Ariely, and David Himmelstein in the most-read Health Affairs Blog post for 2012 . Next on the most...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 11:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Payment, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals, Health Law, Comparative Effectiveness

Risk-Shifting In Health Care And Its Implications: Part One

Editor’s Note: Below, in the first installment of a two-part Health Affairs Blog post, Troyen Brennan and Thomas Lee discuss the shifting of risk they see taking place in the health care system, from insurers and employers to provider and patients...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2011 8:50 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals

U.S. Health Spending Projected To Grow 5.8 Percent Annually

All health care spending in the United States is projected to grow at an annual average rate of 5.8 percent for the period 2010 through 2020, 1.1 percentage points faster than expected growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By 2020, health care spending...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2011 6:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Hospitals, Medicaid

Recession Slowed Health Spending Growth, CMS Analysts Say In Health Affairs

Amid one of the worst economic recessions in recent history, U.S. health spending grew 4.4 percent in 2008, its slowest rate in nearly 50 years. However, overall health spending, which reached $2.3 trillion in 2008 — $7,681 per person — still...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2010 9:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid

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