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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

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

Payment Innovation Profiles Featured in Health Affairs September 2012 Issue

The newly released September 2012 issue of Health Affairs focuses on changing the way US health care is paid for to shift incentives away from fee-for-service medicine and produce better health and health care at lower cost. The issue, which was supported...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2012 1:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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

Engineering Science And Episode-Based Hospital Payment

Editor’s Note. This post is authored by Eugene Litvak PhD, Arnold Milstein MD, MPH and Mark Smith MD, MBA. Photos and bios for Milstein and Smith are above. Litvak is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Optimization and also an Adjunct...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 6:45 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Nurses

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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