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(Only) Evidence-Based After-Hospital Care: Where Should the Savings Go?
Advanced Care Model Honors Dignity, Integrates Health System For Seriously Ill People And Loved Ones
New Health Affairs: Issues Facing The Health Care Workforce
October Health Affairs Issue: Economic Trends And Quality Trade-Offs
Reminder: Health Affairs October Issue Briefing
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(Only) Evidence-Based After-Hospital Care: Where Should the Savings Go?
Medicare 2014 has achieved the main goal of Medicare 1965: Access to medical treatment for older Americans. That, and advances in medicine, public health, and technology, have led to long lives and better health. Nevertheless, the system designed for...
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Advanced Care Model Honors Dignity, Integrates Health System For Seriously Ill People And Loved Ones
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in 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 the Needs of Older Adults with Serious...
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New Health Affairs: Issues Facing The Health Care Workforce
The November issue of Health Affairs , released today, discusses how the US health care workforce can respond to the Affordable Care Act’s expanded coverage and new models of care, as well as to an aging population. Some notable studies in the issue are...
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October Health Affairs Issue: Economic Trends And Quality Trade-Offs
Health Affairs’ October issue , released today, evaluates the successes, the costs, and the quality trade-offs of improving physical and mental health in the United States. As Founding Editor John Iglehart says in his October letter , “Medical advances...
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Reminder: Health Affairs October Issue Briefing
Please join Health Affairs Founding Editor John Iglehart on Tuesday, October 8, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for a Health Affairs briefing at which we will unveil the October 2013 issue, “Economic Trends And Quality Trade-offs.” Panels...
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Health Affairs Briefing: Economic Trends And Quality Trade-Offs
Please join Health Affairs Founding Editor John Iglehart on Tuesday, October 8, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for a Health Affairs briefing at which we will unveil the October 2013 thematic, "Economic Trends And Quality Trade-offs...
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Creating Realistic Long-Term Care Solutions As Part Of The Entitlement Reform Debate
Great struggles sometimes result in unexpected opportunities. In the waning moments of 2012, Congress remained in session to bridge partisan divides to solve the fiscal cliff impasse with the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA). Signing...
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Health Wonk Review: The Inauguration Edition
For the previous Health Wonk Review, Brad Wright chose a Baby New Year theme. However, there were some problems with the new beginning represented by the turnover from 2012 to 2103. For example, with the New Years fiscal cliff deal, one might have hoped...
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Who Stands To Benefit From The Duals Demonstration?
One of the most vexing problems that has plagued the Medicaid and Medicare programs for decades is the siloed and inefficient system that Medicare-Medicaid eligible individuals must navigate to receive health care services and supports. Or perhaps it...
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Mon, Jul 07 2012 10:28 AM
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Health Policy Brief: Coordination Of Care For Dual Eligibles
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines efforts to better manage and coordinate care of more than nine million Americans covered by both Medicare and Medicaid, also known as dual eligibles. This heterogeneous...
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Thu, Jun 06 2012 9:41 AM
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New Health Affairs Focuses On Americans Covered By Both Medicare And Medicaid
Research and analysis in the newly released June 2012 issue of Health Affairs, supported by a grant from The SCAN Foundation, emphasizes the need to develop new ways of paying for and providing care for the roughly 9 million Americans who are eligible...
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Health Affairs Briefing: The Care Span For The Elderly And Disabled
On Tuesday, June 5, Health Affairs will hold a briefing to discuss its June 2012 issue, “Focus On The Care Span For The Elderly And Disabled.” The volume explores a wide range of topics — from avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions...
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Adding Seats: The RUC’s Sleight Of Hand
On February 1, the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), Medicare’s primary advisor on physician payment, announced the addition of two seats: a permanent one for geriatrics and a rotating one for primary...
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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...
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HA Blog Top 10 for January: Reform and Beyond
Here in DC we’re bracing for the storm of the century — snow storm, that is. What better time to catch up on some health policy reading? We list here the top 10 most-read posts from January on Health Affairs Blog. Topics cover health reform...
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