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King v. Burwell: A Brief Respite For Obamacare
Health Affairs Web First: Assessing Efforts To ‘Solve The Sustainable Growth Rate Formula Conundrum’
Primum Non Nocere: Congress’s Inadequate Medicare Physician Payment Fix
Price Transparency Tools: The Good News, The Challenges, And The Way Forward
The BPC Health Care Reform Plan: A Response To Coulam, Feldman, and Dowd
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King v. Burwell: A Brief Respite For Obamacare
Most health foundations in states with federally facilitated health insurance marketplaces breathed a collective sigh of relief after the King v. Burwell Supreme Court ruling, which retained the availability of federal subsidies for health insurance coverage...
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Health Affairs Web First: Assessing Efforts To ‘Solve The Sustainable Growth Rate Formula Conundrum’
On April 1, unless Congress acts to prevent it, the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) fee cut will take effect, dictating a 21.2 percent reduction in Medicare physician fees. A new commentary , released today by Health Affairs as a Web First, assesses...
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Primum Non Nocere: Congress’s Inadequate Medicare Physician Payment Fix
Editor's note: You can read other perspectives on the Medicare physician payment reform pending in Congress in Health Affairs and Health Affairs Blog ( here , here and here ). Partisan gridlock in Washington regarding health policy has been so pervasive...
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Price Transparency Tools: The Good News, The Challenges, And The Way Forward
With health care costs continuing to rise and employees taking on an ever-growing share of costs, it’s no wonder the market for price transparency and consumer-oriented tools and solutions continued to grow in 2013. Well over a dozen independent vendors...
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The BPC Health Care Reform Plan: A Response To Coulam, Feldman, and Dowd
We commend Robert Coulam, Roger Feldman, and Bryan Dowd for bringing attention to competitive bidding in Medicare, a meaningful strategy to constrain health care costs through reducing inefficiencies in the health care system. The authors have made valuable...
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Indexed Health Care: An Evolving Health Policy Proposal
Does the United States have at its disposal a method for predictably controlling the cost and improving the quality of our health care? Can we begin by budgeting or Indexing Health Care expenditures in the Medicare HMO program now called Medicare Advantage...
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Election Post Leads HA Blog Top Ten For November
Tim Jost's look at the 2012 election and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in its aftermath tops the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for November. Jost's piece is joined on the list by election-related posts by Chas Roades...
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Tue, Dec 12 2012 11:33 AM
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The Impact Of The 2012 Election On Health Systems And Providers
Editor's note: For more on what yesterday's election means for health policy, see Tim Jost's post published earlier today on Health Affairs Blog. With the election season now (blessedly) behind us, and the endless barrage of campaign ads now...
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What The Supreme Court’s ACA Ruling Will Mean For Providers
The constitutional waiting game is finally over. Nearly three months to the day after the historic hearings on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court has upheld the vast majority of the law’s provisions...
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Thu, Jun 06 2012 2:16 PM
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The Shifting Health Care Landscape: Lessons From The Clinton Era
The U.S. health care landscape is changing in a way that’s reminiscent of shifts that occurred during the Clinton Administration. As a former hospital CEO who experienced first-hand that earlier land rush, I’m struck by the similar dynamics that are at...
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Fri, May 05 2011 8:51 AM
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An Interview With AHA President Rich Umbdenstock
Editor’s note: Health Affairs Founding Editor John Iglehart recently interviewed American Hospital Association CEO Rich Umbdenstock. The wide-ranging conversation, transcribed below, touched on the ongoing health reform debate, the evolving role...
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