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How Person-Centered Is Your Health Care Organization?

The movement to transform the country’s health care delivery system has been underway for several years now, and some moments of truth are approaching. The ultimate success of this monumental effort to improve the way we pay for and deliver care will...

Published Tue, Aug 30 2016 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Population Health, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Health Professionals, patient-centered care, value-based purchasing, healthcare transformation

The Urban Institute Model Of Financing Long-Term Services And Supports: A Critical Review

For some time now, certain analysts, advocates, and policymakers have recommended the creation of a new social insurance program to finance long-term services and supports (LTSS) for the working-age disabled population and, in particular, the elderly...

Published Wed, Feb 15 2017 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Aging, Long-term Services and Supports, Congress, CBO, Community Living Assistance Services and Supports

How Could The 21st Century Cures Act And The Joint Commission Improve Eating Disorder Care?

Approximately 30 million individuals have experienced a diagnosable eating disorder at some point in their life . People with an eating disorder are more likely to have comorbid physical and psychological conditions , higher annual health care costs Read...

Published Wed, Jun 28 2017 6:18 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, 21st Century Cures Act, Essential Health Benefits, American Health Care Act, The Joint Commission, eating disorder treatment

What To Expect When You Are Managing A Population Health Coalition

Collaboration among a litany of health care and community-based organizations (CBOs) has become a popular approach to pursuing health improvements in cities and towns across the United States. Examples of cross-sector coalitions can be found in the work...

Published Tue, Jun 13 2017 9:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Politics, Hospitals, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Population Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, community-based organizations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Research & Educational Trust

Same-Sex Couples Face Inequities In Access To Health Coverage

Partnered gay men in California are only 42 percent as likely as married heterosexual men to get employer-sponsored dependent health insurance. Partnered lesbians in the state have an even smaller chance (28 percent) of getting that same coverage, compared...

Published Thu, Jun 24 2010 4:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Coverage, Disparities

Medicare Advantage Payment The Focus Again: This Time Around, Quality Bonuses

Whether Medicare Advantage plans should be paid more than traditional Medicare has long been an issue of debate. In the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Congress voted to narrow the difference in payments between the two programs from...

Published Tue, May 01 2012 8:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Medicare, Quality

Health Affairs Blog Top 10 For March

Tim Jost’s analysis of the final rule on health insurance exchanges tops the most-read list for March for Health Affairs Blog. The Health Affairs article and follow-on blog post by Danny McCormick and colleagues on the effect of physicians’...

Published Thu, Apr 05 2012 10:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Prevention, Policy, Politics, Health IT

HA Entry Point Looks At Three ‘Sleeper’ Issues In ACA Legal Fight

Next week the Supreme Court will hold three days of oral arguments on legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Public attention has been focused mostly on the dispute over the constitutionality of the law’s “individual mandate,”...

Published Tue, Mar 20 2012 12:18 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Medicaid, Health Law

The Ryan Plan: The Cliffs Notes Version Of Republican Health Reform

For the second year in a row, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has advanced a comprehensive budget plan that would restructure Medicare and Medicaid, repeal the big-spending portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and ultimately resolve the fiscal crisis facing...

Published Wed, Mar 21 2012 1:08 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid

Remembering Larry Lewin: A Legacy Of Accomplishment And Mentorship

On April 29, 2012, four days after his 74th birthday, Larry Lewin (pictured below) died from complications of an underlying cancer. The funeral was May 1 and his wife, Marion asked me to speak briefly about his professional life. What follows is adapted...

Published Wed, May 16 2012 12:46 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Hospitals, Medicaid, Personal Experience

From The Archives: Pharmaceutical Pricing

Welcome to “ From the Archives ,” a Health Affairs Blog series, where we take a timely topic and delve into the literature and history, from a Health Affairs angle, of course. Harvoni, Sovaldi , Repatha , Daraprim . Four drugs that have made news for...

Published Tue, Nov 24 2015 6:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Pharma, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Research and Development, value-based reimbursement, From the Archives, small molecule drugs, specialty drugs, biosimilars, biotechnology

How The ACA Would Have Cut 2001-08 Out-Of-Pocket Spending Under Individual Coverage

Currently, individual health insurance typically has less generous benefits than employment-related insurance. However, under the Affordable Care Act, individual insurance will probably become more generous and more like employment-related insurance....

Published Fri, May 18 2012 12:10 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Health Care Costs

Implementing Health Reform: Court Rules That Tax Credits Are Available Through Federal Exchange

TweetOn January 15, 2014, the Affordable Care Act won a very important legal victory in Halbig v. Sebelius. Judge Paul Friedman of the District Court for the District of Columbia held that the ACA unambiguously supports an IRS regulation allowing the...

Published Wed, Jan 15 2014 12:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Health Affairs Now On iPad

Now you can explore the intersection of health, health care, and policy with Health Affairs on iPad. Download Health Affairs’ new mobile application for iPad to tap into a full interactive experience with Health Affairs content, including: Free...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2012 11:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog, Policy

Health Policy Brief: The Relative Contribution Of Multiple Determinants To Health Outcomes

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) examines factors that can contribute to health status. In the United States, less than 9 percent of health expenditures go to disease prevention, and there is...

Published Fri, Aug 22 2014 12:22 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Environmental Health

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