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Health Affairs Web Firsts: Two Studies Find Mixed Results On EHR Adoption

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

Published Mon, Aug 08 2014 10:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

A Policy Dialogue On Connected Health

Editor's note: In addition to Janet Marchibroda (photo and linked bio above), this post was coauthored by Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog Editor. What is telehealth or “connected health”? What is driving the use of connected health and what are...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2013 6:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, States, Medicare, Workforce, Access, Quality, Hospitals, Technology, Nurses, Research, Connected Health

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

How Ideas From Private Industry Help Combat Medicare Fraud, Waste, And Abuse

It is increasingly well-known that improper payments cost taxpayers as much as $50 billion each year. These include reimbursements for billing for non-existent patients, falsified diagnoses, non-covered procedures, services not rendered or simply upcoded...

Published Thu, May 05 2013 6:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Competition, Technology

Guidance 2.0 For Coverage With Evidence Development: Striking The Right Chord

On November 8, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) solicited the public for feedback on Medicare’s controversial coverage with evidence development (CED) policy. Although CMS did not finalize the CED policy until 2006, the agency...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2012 11:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Medicare, Coverage, Comparative Effectiveness, Technology, Effectiveness

Medicare’s Embedded Ethics: The Challenge Of Cost Control In An Aging Society

The challenge of reining in the rising costs of the Medicare Program is particularly thorny because it confronts a recalcitrant societal tension between the necessity for cost control and the value of open-ended technology use for life extension in the...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2011 1:02 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Spending, Medicare, Access, Bioethics, Comparative Effectiveness, Technology, End-of-Life Care, Aging

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...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2010 6:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Coverage, Pharma, Comparative Effectiveness, Innovation, Technology

July Health Affairs: The Impact Of Health Reform

The new health reform law charges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with testing new payment and delivery models intended to improve health outcomes and restrain costs. But as the July issue of Health Affairs, published yesterday...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2010 8:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Payment, Health IT, Chronic Care, Medicare, Coverage, Medicaid, Children, Technology

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