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Projected Slow Growth In 2013 Health Spending Ahead Of Future Increases

Insurance Coverage, Population Aging, and Economic Growth Are Main Drivers of Projected Future Health Spending Increases New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project a slow 3.6 percent...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2014 1:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

ACAView: New Findings On The Effect Of Coverage Expansion Since January 2014

Together, athenahealth and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) have undertaken a new joint venture called ACAView, as part of the foundation’s Reform by the Numbers project, a source for timely and unique data on the impact of health reform. The...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2014 9:45 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health IT, Coverage, Workforce, Hospitals, Disparities, Medicaid, Technology, Research

Where Have All The Inpatients Gone? A Regional Study With National Implications

As a result of unsustainable costs and an inordinate share of gross domestic product, the U.S. health care system has a new business model—one that is transforming the delivery system from hospital-centric sick care to a super outpatient model that will...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2014 10:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Business of Health Care

A December Health Reform Implementation Update: A Health Affairs Conversation With Gail Wilensky And Tim Jost

What should we make of the latest enrollment numbers in the health insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act? What sort of problems should we expect when coverage begins through the exchanges in January? Should we be worried that some...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2013 11:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Physicians, Hospitals, Medicaid, Podcast

Why Has ACO Growth Slowed?

Both public and private organizations have been aggressively pursuing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as a way to improve health care outcomes, lower health care costs and improve patient satisfaction with care. With substantive industry interest...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2013 11:45 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid, Innovation, Business of Health Care

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

Winners And Losers From The Zaltrap Price Discount: Unintended Consequences?

Soon after Sanofi Pharmaceuticals’ Inc. August 2012 launch of the biologic drug ziv-aflibercept (brand name Zaltrap) into the U.S. market, its price triggered an unusual act of defiance on the part of oncolAogists. Physicians from Memorial Sloan-Kettering...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2013 10:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

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

New Health Affairs: Health Spending Growth Remained Low In 2011

A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), released today in the January 2013 issue of Health Affairs , estimates that health care spending in the United States grew at a rate of 3.9 percent...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2013 1:02 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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

Yesterday, in the first installment of a two-part Health Affairs Blog post, Troyen Brennan and Thomas Lee discussed the shifting of risk they see taking place in the health care system, from insurers and employers to provider and patients. In part two...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2011 11:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Physicians, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid

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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