Health Affairs

CMMI’s New Comprehensive Primary Care Plus: Its Promise And Missed Opportunities

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI, or “the Innovation Center”) recently announced an initiative called Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+). It evolved from the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, which began in 2012 and...

Published Tue, May 31 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Quality, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, CMMI, ACOs, Alternative Payment Models, PCMHs, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

‘Value Creation’ And ‘Value Shifting’ In Health Care

Corporate executives, the management consultants who advise them, and the financial industry executives who help corporations finance their capital investments tend to believe that whenever their joint work enhances the wealth of a firm’s shareholders...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Population Health, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, Sovaldi, Big Pharma, economics, Turing Pharmaceuticals, drug pricing, Valeant Pharmaceuticals

Making The Business Case For Investing In Community Health

In recent years, many businesses have put a premium on improving employee health—often through investments in workplace wellness programs, onsite clinics , or the availability of fruit and vegetables on the premises. Ostensibly, these programs are intended...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2016 1:48 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Population Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, health equity, Community Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, culture of health, AcademyHealth, Businesses

Health Affairs’ June Issue: Behavioral Health

The June issue of Health Affairs explores the topic of behavioral health, including racial and ethnic disparities in treatment, trends in financing of behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment, the portrayal of mental health issues in the...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2016 1:17 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Behavioral Health, Health Affairs journal

Yes, Providing Cancer Drugs In Multiple Vial Sizes Could Save Patients and Payers Money

On March 1, 2016, we published an article in the BMJ showing how in the US nearly $3 billion will be spent on discarded cancer drugs this year because companies package drugs in vials that contain too much of the drug for most doses, creating expensive...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2016 11:01 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Cancer

Obama Administration Acts To Stabilize Marketplaces, Implement Expatriate Coverage Legislation

On June 8, the federal departments tasked with implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) released a barrage of regulatory issuances, including fact sheets, guidances, a blog post, and a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). These issuances serve two...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2016 9:19 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, Essential Health Benefits, risk pools, minimum essential coverage, special enrollment periods, ACA Marketplaces, expatriate coverage

How Patient Groups Have Begun To Influence The Value And Coverage Debate

In 2015, two issues related to medicine could be relied on to generate headlines: drug pricing and the proliferation of new value frameworks that claimed to define the value and even the price of drugs in seemingly easy-to-understand ways. In none of...

Published Fri, Jun 10 2016 11:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, clinical research, patient use of evidence, venture philanthropy

Request For Abstracts: Delivery System Innovation

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue in March 2017 that will provide a broad look at delivery system innovation . We plan to publish about 20 peer-reviewed articles including research, systematic reviews, well-designed case studies, analyses, and...

Published Mon, Jun 13 2016 1:00 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, request for abstracts, delivery system innovation

Are Priority Review Vouchers The Answer To Incentivize Drug Development? Not So Fast.

In the May issue of Health Affairs , two papers examine the potential for voucher systems to incentivize drug development in areas of unmet medical need. Co-authors Kevin Outterson and Anthony McDonnell take a look at potential exclusivity voucher programs...

Published Wed, Jun 15 2016 11:15 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, Quality, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, FDA, FDAAA, priority review, rare diseases

Alaska Reinsurance Plan Could Be Model For ACA Reform, Plus Other ACA Developments

Although Alaska is our biggest state, its population is small. Only 23,000 Alaskans enrolled in its nongroup market for 2016. Alaska also has very high health care costs. For these reasons, marketplace insurance coverage costs far more in Alaska than...

Published Thu, Jun 16 2016 10:15 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Women's Health, House v. Burwell, cost-sharing reduction payments, 1095-A forms

Fighting Child Obesity: The Limits Of Current Policies

In a Web First paper published April 1 by Health Affairs, Jason Fletcher of Yale University and coauthors assess the effect of policies, such as vending machine restrictions and taxes on soft drinks, aimed at reducing sugared beverage consumption by students...

Published Fri, Apr 02 2010 12:59 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Children, Obesity

Implementing Health Reform: Reporting Requirements For Employer And Minimum Essential Coverage (Full Analysis)

Editor's note: This post provides a full analysis of two Affordable Care Act IRS reporting regulations that were discussed in abbreviated fashion in an earlier post . On September 5, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed rules intended...

Published Sat, Sep 07 2013 10:50 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Health Law

Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up

Today is of course tax day, but over at the HealthBlawg, David Harlow marks the day in happier fashion, offering the best in health policy blogging in the latest Health Wonk Review. In an entertaining edition titled “Block That Metaphor,”...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 2:11 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Blog

Implementing Health Reform: Congressional Coverage, Multi-State Plan Program, And ACA Litigation With A Twist

On September 30, 2012, as the federal government reached the end of its fiscal year and teetered on the brink of a shutdown, implementation of the Affordable Care Act moved forward on several fronts. First, the Office of Personnel Management issued a...

Published Tue, Oct 01 2013 4:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, States, Medicaid

Part Of The Solution: Next Steps In Medication Adherence Policy

We’ve heard a lot of encouraging words lately about how the improved use of medications is an essential but overlooked pathway to improved patient outcomes and sustainable health care costs. Consider these three signposts. . The Congressional Budget Office...

Published Fri, Oct 04 2013 11:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Pharma, Quality

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