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Closing The Rural Health Connectivity Gap: How Broadband Funding Can Better Improve Care
Broadband access is not usually highlighted in policy prescriptions for improving outcomes and lowering costs of health care. But it is a prerequisite for a range of technologies that can provide more cost-effective and higher-quality care, such as video...
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Good And Bad News For Diabetes Prevention In The Community
The findings from a recent synthesis of the literature about the effectiveness of prevention initiatives focused on reducing the risk of Type 2 diabetes among high-risk populations (people already obese or inactive or diagnosed as having prediabetes)...
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The Patient Access Imperative: A Potential Triple Win For Payors, Providers, And Patients
Long patient wait times, frustratingly high no-show rates, lack-luster call center performance, and under-utilized physicians. Does any of this sound familiar? Although a small set of health systems have boldly declared that their physicians guarantee...
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Investing In The Health And Well-Being Of Young Adults
Young adulthood -- ages approximately 18 to 26 -- is a critical time in life. What happens during these years has profound and long-lasting implications for young adults, and -- because many are parents -- for the next generation. Healthy, productive...
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Implementing Health Reform: 2016 Benefit And Payment Parameters Proposed Rule, Consumer Provisions; Hardship Exemptions
On November 15, 2014, the marketplaces reopened for 2015. Anecdotal reports indicate that in most places enrollment and reenrollment are running smoothly. But the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the Department of Health and Human Services...
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The Payment Reform Landscape: Benefit And Network Design Strategies To Complement Payment Reform
For the past ten months on Health Affairs Blog, we've been discussing the evidence for different models of payment reform , examining everything from pay for performance to nonpayment. But no discussion of payment reform is complete without addressing...
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Grand-Aides And Health Policy: Reducing Readmissions Cost-Effectively
Hospital readmissions for the same condition within 30 days likely should not occur, and most often indicate system failure. Readmitted patients are either discharged too early, should be placed into palliative care or hospice, or most often are victims...
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Vets Deserve The Right To Shop For Care
Editor's note: For more on this topic, see the Health Affairs Blog post from Theodore Stefos and James Burgess , and stay tuned for an upcoming blog post from Joel Kupersmith. As former Procter & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald steps in to lead the...
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Transcending Obamacare? Analyzing Avik Roy’s ACA Replacement Plan
Avik Roy’s proposal, “ Transcending Obamacare ,” is the latest and most thoroughly developed conservative alternative for reforming the American health care system in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. It is a serious proposal, and it deserves to be...
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Disparities In Access To Palliative Care
Editor’s note: Otis Brawley also coauthored this post. This post is part of a periodic Health Affairs Blog series on palliative care, health policy, and health reform. The series features essays adapted from and drawing on an upcoming volume, Meeting...
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Washington Wakes Up To Socioeconomic Status
John Mathewson, executive vice president of Health Care Services for Children with Special Needs (HSC) – a Medicaid managed care plan in D.C. for children on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) – recently spoke at the Association for Community Affiliated...
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A Health Reform Framework: Breaking Out Of The Medicaid Model
Editor's note: This post is coauthored by Joseph Antos and James Capretta. A primary aim of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to expand insurance coverage, especially among households with lower incomes. The Congressional Budget...
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Thoughts On The VA Scandal And The Future
For eight years, until May 2013, I directed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical research program from its Central Office and became familiar with the operations of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). It was my only VA job and I felt...
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Beyond Access: High Quality Care For All
In medical school, I had an epiphany about my role as a doctor during my obstetrics-gynecology rotation at the county safety-net hospital in Fresno, California. I loved the thrill and satisfaction of delivering babies, but after about 10 births, it hit...
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The Health Workforce: A Critical Component Of The Health Care Infrastructure
Editor’s note: This is the first in a periodic series of Health Affairs Blog posts on health workforce issues by Edward Salsberg. Mr. Salsberg has spent over 30 years studying the health workforce, including nearly 20 years establishing and directing...
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