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The End Of Internal Medicine As We Know It

Editor’s Note: In the post below, Caroline Poplin takes a skeptical look at Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and the trends they represent. For more on ACOs from various perspectives, readers can consult the January issue of Health Affairs...

Published Fri, Jan 14 2011 9:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Physicians, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Technology

Should Doctors Deny Ebola Patients CPR?

The first time I did CPR, coagulated blood spurted onto my new white coat from a wound in the patient’s chest. Another time a patient’s urine soaked through the knees of my pants as I knelt at his side. Even in the best of conditions, cardiopulmonary...

Published Thu, Dec 11 2014 5:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Physicians, Workforce, Global Health

A Pilot Program For Overweight Children Yields Results

An article published earlier this week by Health Affairs discusses a new approach to managing child obesity that supports the delivery of so-called secondary care — referral-based specialized visits — by primary care teams within community...

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 5:43 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Primary Care, Children, Obesity

Accountable Care Organizations Taking Hold And Improving Health Care In California

There is new evidence that California’s Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are growing in size and number, serving more patients, and improving quality of care. Some of the key findings from an analysis done by the Berkeley Healthcare Forum group in...

Published Tue, Jun 02 2015 11:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, ACOs, EHRs, California Health Care, Berkeley Healthcare Forum

Unpacking The 2018 Draft Letter To Federally Facilitated Marketplace Issuers

On November 10, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Draft 2018 Letter to Issuers in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM). CMS releases a letter each year to insurers...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2016 3:13 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, qualified health plans, Small Business Health Options Program, network adequacy, standardized plans, prescription drug formularies, individual insurance market, rate review, standalone dental plans

Policy Brief: Near-Term Changes In Health Insurance

In March 2010, Congress enacted substantial health reform measures intended to increase access to affordable insurance, reduce the number of uninsured people, and reform both the health insurance market and the health care delivery system. The lion’s...

Published Mon, May 03 2010 11:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Insurance, Children

Implementing Health Reform: Employer Coverage Option Notices

As Affordable Care Act implementation inexorably moves into place, guidance continues to issue forth from the implementing agencies -- now almost on a daily basis -- shoring up the edifice that is becoming the reality of health care reform. On May 8,...

Published Thu, May 09 2013 12:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

What Is Strategy In Global Health Care?

Over the past decade, it has become popular to invoke the term “strategy” in global health. For many NGOs operating in developing world contexts, strategy is synonymous with “vision.” For others, strategy is the set of operating activities that meet a...

Published Mon, Mar 12 2012 9:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Global Health, Personal Experience

Mental Health Reform: Treating Before Stage 4

When I talk about mental illnesses, I often point out that as a matter of public policy they are the only chronic conditions we wait until Stage 4 - the final stage in a chronic disease process - to treat, and then often only through incarceration. To...

Published Mon, Aug 11 2014 12:25 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Access, Reform, Mental Health

Implementing Health Reform: The October Exchange Enrollment Report

On November 13, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services released its first monthly enrollment report for the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges. The report is full of numbers, but two are certain to make the headlines: Only 106,185...

Published Wed, Nov 13 2013 6:13 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Coverage

The Grandparents Corps: A New Primary Care Model

Editor’s Note: In addition to Arthur Garson (photo and bio available above), coauthors of this post include Margaret Whitehead, Tracy Buni, Catherine Sommers, and Karen Rheuban. Given current trends, access to health care will worsen considerably...

Published Mon, Sep 28 2009 8:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Primary Care, Workforce, Access

Quality Is A Priority For Only Half Of Hospital Boards

According to the first national study of hospital board chairs linked to quality performance, just half the boards rated quality of care as one of their two top priorities and only a minority reported receiving training in quality. The study was published...

Published Fri, Nov 06 2009 2:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Quality, Hospitals

Health Care Policy After The Mid-Term Elections

As President Obama said in his post-election news conference, Republicans had a good night on November 4. They increased their majority in the House to a level not seen since the 1920s and may hold as many as 250 seats in the lower chamber. In the Senate...

Published Fri, Nov 07 2014 9:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Coverage, Medicaid, Health Law

Bending The Health Care Cost Curve: More Than Meets The Eye?

During the past months, a number of important articles have appeared in the healthcare literature on the subject of the recent slowing of health-spending growth in the U.S. In an article in January’s Health Affairs, economists at the Centers for Medicare...

Published Fri, Apr 13 2012 8:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, States, Spending, Pharma, Hospitals

Health Affairs Briefing: Value In Cancer Care

On Thursday, April 12, Health Affairs will hold a briefing to unveil its April 2012 issue, “Issues In Cancer Care: Value, Costs & Quality.” The volume explores a range of cancer-related topics, with the centerpiece a cluster of articles on assessing...

Published Tue, Apr 03 2012 11:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Policy, Payment, Medicare, End-of-Life Care, Effectiveness

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