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Changes Needed To Fulfill The Potential Of Medicare’s ACO Program
What Kind Of Advance Care Planning Should CMS Pay For?
Reconciling Prevention And Value In The Health Care System
The Payment Reform Landscape: Everyone Has A Goal
Health Affairs’ March Issue: The Benefits And Limitations Of Information
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“Out Of The Blocks”: Meeting The Challenge Of Transforming Health Care
No other presidential election in American history has been freighted with such significance for health care as was last month’s vote. Uncertainty over the future of health policy dominated the discourse, and we all waited with bated breath for clarity...
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A Call For Clarity In Health Care: The FAIR Health NPIC Database
By all accounts, health care in America has been ailing for several decades. Americans have struggled with acquiring and maintaining adequate health insurance as costs have steadily increased. While the increased insurance coverage provided under the...
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Skeptical Look At P4P Leads HA Blog’s October Top Ten
Will pay-for-performance backfire? That's the question addressed in the most-read Health Affairs Blog post for October. Steffie Woolhandler, Dan Ariely, and David Himmelstein look to behavioral economics to explain the lack of evidence that P4P is...
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Creating Outcome-Driven Health Care Markets
America’s health care market does not work well. It is inefficient, asymmetric, and in most cases not particularly competitive. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) legislated a myriad of changes to reform and improve insurance markets with exchanges as a centerpiece...
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Tue, Oct 10 2012 11:56 AM
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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...
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Cost And Quality Concerns, Policy Changes Lead To Innovation, Collaboration — And Accountable Care
Health care in the United States is changing at a pace not seen since the launch of Medicare. The changes are largely a response to runaway medical costs in our health care delivery system. Our nation spends nearly twice as much per person on health care...
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Medicare Beneficiaries Less Likely To Experience Cost And Access Problems Than Adults With Private Coverage
New analysis of a national survey on consumer experiences with health coverage compared the responses of Medicare beneficiaries to nonelderly adults covered by private coverage. The analysis by Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis and coauthors, published...
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Thu, Jul 07 2012 11:26 AM
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Health Affairs Conference: After The Supreme Court
A small number of seats may still be available for Health Affairs’ Tuesday, July 17 conference, “After the Supreme Court: Moving Ahead to Implement the Affordable Care Act, Improve Health and Health Care and Lower Costs.” The conference will be...
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Implementing Health Reform: Essential Health Benefits And Plan Accreditation
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues to put in place the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that is health reform. On June 1, 2012 HHS released a notice of proposed rulemaking addressing two issues: collection of data to support the essential...
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Sat, Jun 06 2012 3:01 PM
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Implementing Health Reform: State-Based, Partnership, And Federally Facilitated Exchanges
On May 16, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services moved three steps closer to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, which will happen on January 1, 2014. First, HHS announced the award of 5 new level 1...
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Early Lessons From A Shared Risk, Integrated Care Organization Serving A Commercial Population
Background: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ designation of 32 accountable care organizations (ACOs) across the U.S. to enroll Medicare fee-for-service patients beginning in 2012 makes ACOs an important feature of the national healthcare...
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William Sage On The Supreme Court ACA Arguments Day Two: Where No Law Has Gone Before?
The much-anticipated argument over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance centerpiece, the minimum coverage requirement or “individual mandate,” took place Tuesday morning. It was an entertaining but messy affair, with several individuals...
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Media Partnership: AHIP Summit On Payment And Delivery Reform
AHIP’s Summit on Payment Reform and Delivery Transformation, March 5 in Washington, D.C., spotlights efforts across the country to transform the payment system and care delivery. The Summit showcases initiatives where providers and health plans...
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Reform Litigation Post Leads HA Blog January Top 10
The most-read Health Affairs Blog post for January was Tim Jost’s examination of the first set of briefs filed before the Supreme Court in the litigation over the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The full top-ten list for the month...
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Pioneer ACOs: Promise And Potential Pitfalls
The December 19 announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of 32 Medicare Pioneer ACOs underscores the transition of “shared savings” and “accountable care” from policy concepts to implementation. Perhaps more than any other...
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