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Engaging Health Care Consumers: The Lowe’s Experience
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Section 1332 Waivers And The Future Of State Health Reform
Medicare, Medicaid, And Pharmaceuticals: The Price Of Innovation
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Engaging Health Care Consumers: The Lowe’s Experience
Time will tell, but it appears that employers are not giving up on providing health insurance to their employees -- even with the availability of health care exchanges. That’s at least what the results of a new study sponsored by the National Business...
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How To Restore The Innovation Ecosystem For Medical Technology
The recent February issue of Health Affairs , which features a series of articles on innovation, provides us with an opportunity to examine the state of America’s innovation ecosystem for medical technology. This ecosystem has produced a myriad of medical...
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Section 1332 Waivers And The Future Of State Health Reform
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts stemming from presentations given at “ The Law of Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty ,” a conference held at Yale Law School on November 6 and 7. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) turbocharges state...
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Medicare, Medicaid, And Pharmaceuticals: The Price Of Innovation
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts stemming from presentations given at “ The Law of Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty ,” a conference held at Yale Law School on November 6 and 7. Through much of the last half century, Medicare...
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Health Reform Implementation Dominates HA Blog July Top Ten
As the October 1 start of open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act's exchanges draws near, ACA implementation is on people's minds. That's reflected in the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for July, which features several posts...
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Narrative Matters: Navigating The Coverage Maze In Pennsylvania
In the May Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay , two graduate students describe their fight with the bureaucracy to gain coverage for their son under the Children's Health Insurance Program, and they express the hope that provisions of the Affordable...
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CMS’s Innovation Center Evaluates New Care and Payment Models
A Health Affairs Web First article released today describes the new rapid-cycle approach to program evaluation at the recently established Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The Affordable Care Act created the Innovation Center within the Centers...
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leader Awards: Call For Nominations
As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s commemorative activities to honor its 40 years of grant-making, the foundation has established the Young Leader Awards: Recognizing Leadership for a Healthier America. This program will recognize up to 10...
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Wed, Jun 06 2012 4:49 AM
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Census Numbers: The Trend Toward Government Coverage Continues
In its yearly survey of health insurance coverage, the U.S. Census Bureau published figures that underscore the trend toward greater dependence on government for coverage. The percentage of Americans on government health programs continues to grow, while...
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Wed, Sep 09 2011 9:15 AM
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Health Affairs Briefing: New Directions In Systems Innovation
On July 7, 2011, Health Affairs will unveil its July 2011 issue, “New Directions In Systems Innovations.” The issue explores ongoing innovations in health care organization, delivery and financing across a broad front – from Vermont’s...
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Health Care And The State Of The Union
Below, Kavita Patel, former director of policy for the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, discusses President Obama’s State of the Union address and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) Republican response...
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Thoughtful Purchasing At CMS
Recent press reports on Medicare’s decision to evaluate coverage policy for the new cancer therapy Provenge were highly critical of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and its role in examining the evidence behind FDA-approved products...
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What Is An ‘Essential Benefit’?
A central feature of health reform is the state exchanges, through which a variety of plans will be offered. Each of those plans will be required to offer a package of “essential benefits” as defined in the Affordable Care Act. When most people think...
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Do ‘Cadillac’ Plans Equal Cadillac Benefits?
Editor’s Note: For more on the controversy over taxing high-cost health plans, see a “Cadillacs Or Ambulances? The Senate Tax On ‘Excessive Benefits, a Health Affairs Blog post by Joseph White and Timothy Jost published today. The Senate...
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