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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

Doctors Should Be Rewarded For Quality Care — Not For Cutting Corners

The current Medicare fee-for-service system has been criticized for rewarding practitioners in the health system for doing more -- more tests, more procedures, more expensive care -- that may not be beneficial. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) sets up new...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2013 8:33 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Hospitals, Health Law, Technology, Effectiveness

From Health Affairs: Trends In The Adoption Of Health Information Technology

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was enacted in 2009. Since then, Health Affairs has published many articles about the promise of health information technology (IT) and the challenges of broad adoption. Today...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2013 3:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Hospitals

Health Affairs Briefing Reminder: Health Information Technology Adoption And Use

On Tuesday, July 9 , Health Affairs will host a briefing to report latest trends in health information technology adoption among US health care providers and hospitals. The event will feature remarks from Farzad Mostashari, the National Coordinator for...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2013 8:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Quality, Hospitals

Narrative Matters, The Next Chapter: ‘As She Lay Dying’

Editor's note: With this post Health Affairs Blog launches a new series: “Narrative Matters, The Next Chapter.” Narrative Matters essays often capture part of a larger, ongoing story; in this periodic series of HA Blog posts, Narrative Matters authors...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2013 9:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Physicians, Quality, Hospitals, Personal Experience, Patient Safety

Health Affairs Briefing: Health Information Technology Adoption And Use

On Tuesday, July 9 , Health Affairs will host a briefing to report latest trends in health information technology adoption among US health care providers and hospitals. The event will feature remarks from Farzad Mostashari, the National Coordinator for...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2013 12:49 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Quality, Hospitals

Saving Grady: Reflections On Kate Neuhausen’s Narrative Matters Essay

In the past 12 years, several of our nation’s most storied public hospitals have closed, including DC General (2001), New Orleans’s Charity Hospital (2005), and Martin Luther King, Jr. hospital in Los Angeles (2007). When Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2013 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Politics, Physicians, Hospitals, Disparities, Medicaid, Personal Experience, Nurses

Where Was The Leadership? The Questions Raised By Jonathan Welch’s Narrative Matters Essay

Dr. Jonathan Welch's Narrative Matters essay in the December, 2012 edition of Health Affairs , regarding the cascade of errors and omissions he witnessed in connection with the care provided to his mother, should raise profound questions about how...

Published Tue, May 05 2013 12:38 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Physicians, Quality, Hospitals, Personal Experience, Patient Safety, Nurses

Creating A Workforce For The New Health Care World

Recently, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council reported that Americans die earlier and live in poorer health than people in other industrialized countries. This is the latest evidence of the urgent need for health reform, as embodied...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2013 12:37 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Workforce, Quality, Hospitals, Nurses

Not In My Name: Real Patient-Centeredness Means Sharing Power

It is as natural for doctors, hospitals, health plans and others to aggressively affirm their “patient-centeredness” as it is for politicians to loudly proclaim their fealty to the hard-working American middle class. Like the politicians, the health care...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2013 9:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Competition, Hospitals, Patient Safety

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

Continued Growth Of Public And Private Accountable Care Organizations

On January 10, 2013 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 106 Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will join the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). CMS reports that this brings the total number of MSSP ACOs to “more...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2013 9:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Physicians, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, States, Medicare, Quality, 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

January Health Affairs Examines Rocky Road Of Delivery System Transformation

As US health care continues down the path of delivery system transformation, January’s Health Affairs explores areas of opportunities and challenges to achieving better health and better care at lower costs. Other articles focus on a range of topics of...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2013 11:33 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Malpractice Liability Reform, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, States, Workforce, Quality, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Nurses

Trust But Verify: Why CMS Got It Right On EHR Oversight

Yesterday’s New York Times headline read that “ Medicare Is Faulted on Shift to Electronic Records .” The story describes an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report , released November 29, 2012, that faults the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2012 8:33 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Health IT, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid

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