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To Spur Medical Innovation, Make Corporate Cheaters Pay
The Cost Of A Cure: Medicare’s Role In Treating Hepatitis C
Health Affairs June Issue: Where Can We Find Savings In Health Care?
For High-Risk Medicare Beneficiaries: Targeting CMMI Demonstrations On Promising Delivery Models
National Health Spending Growth Remains Low For Fourth Consecutive Year
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To Spur Medical Innovation, Make Corporate Cheaters Pay
The past decade has seen a relatively constant rate of newly approved drugs every year. The number has even jumped in the past few years. Yet, despite such encouraging trends, we are actually facing a crisis in drug innovation today. That is because many...
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The Cost Of A Cure: Medicare’s Role In Treating Hepatitis C
Editor's note: In addition to Tricia Neuman, Jack Hoadley and Juliette Cubanski also coauthored this post. For a patient with hepatitis C, a potentially deadly disease, the prospect of finding a cure with minimal side effects is a really big deal...
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Health Affairs June Issue: Where Can We Find Savings In Health Care?
The June issue of Health Affairs , released today, features various approaches to cost-savings in the U.S. health care system. A variety of articles analyze the effects of potential policy solutions on the Medicare and Medicaid programs and their impact...
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For High-Risk Medicare Beneficiaries: Targeting CMMI Demonstrations On Promising Delivery Models
Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions, certain types of serious conditions (e.g. heart disease, pulmonary disorders, mental disorders, cancer), and functional limitations have higher health and long-term care costs and more adverse outcomes...
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National Health Spending Growth Remains Low For Fourth Consecutive Year
A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), released today in the January 2014 issue of Health Affairs , estimates that health care spending in the United States grew at a rate of 3.7 percent...
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Recent Health Policy Briefs: Specialty Pharmaceuticals And Medicare Hospital Readmissions
The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explains many of the current debates surrounding the use of specialty pharmaceuticals. Specialty pharmaceuticals—drugs and biologics used to treat chronic, serious...
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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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To IPAB or Not to IPAB? Is that the question?
The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) has been touted as an important tool to control Medicare costs. The President supports it. But many members of Congress and provider groups do not. Can the IPAB survive in this political environment? Should...
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Medicare Part D drug pricing
Reducing Medicare Part D drug prices requires careful tools, not simply the power to negotiate Read More...
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