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Growth Of ACOs And Alternative Payment Models In 2017

Accountable care is an important mechanism used by public and private payers to align health care provider payments with efficient care for defined patient populations. Leavitt Partners, in partnership with the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative...

Published Wed, Jun 28 2017 6:20 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, ACOs, Alternative Payment Models
Making Investments In Rural Health: What Are The New And Old Challenges?

Fairly early in the day of November 9, 2016, the frenzy began. It was the day after Election Day 2016. Enormous swaths of rural Americans had helped to deliver a presidential candidate over the finish line who promoted ideas and plans that were antithetical...

Published Wed, Jun 28 2017 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Politics, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, health equity, rural health, 2016 election, equity, Office of Rural Health Policy
Building New Partnerships For American Indian And Alaska Native Health

Montana is home to federally recognized tribes on seven reservations, one state-recognized tribe, and a large urban American Indian population. Health disparities among American Indian and Alaska Native people are a serious, longstanding problem throughout...

Published Tue, Aug 09 2016 3:04 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, States, Workforce, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, Montana, Native Americans, Alaska Native, American Indians
Adolescents And Young Adults: Bringing A Neglected Group Into Cancer Research

“A child is not a small adult,” but an adolescent is not a large child. Adult oncologists, reluctant to care for cancer patients under the age of 16, believe that adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients should be within their purview. We...

Published Fri, Jan 13 2012 9:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Bioethics, Pharma, Children, Biotech, Research
Raising The Age Of Purchase For Tobacco Products: Lessons Learned from Tobacco21

In 2015 the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce—in partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City , and many other business, health, nonprofit, and government leaders—launched Healthy...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2016 1:59 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, Politics, Children, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Smoking Prevention, tobacco, e-cigarettes
Time to Fashion A Quilt From The Patchwork Of Advance Care Planning

Thank you for David Tuller’s outstanding synthesis of the issues and opportunities surrounding end-of-life discussions in the United States, presented in the March 2016 Health Affairs Entry Point, “Medicare Coverage For Advance Care Planning: Just The...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2016 2:13 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Physicians, Medicare, Coverage, End-of-Life Care, Aging, Health Philanthropy, Palliative Care, Featured, Health Professionals, Aging and Health, advance care planning
Improving The Rhetoric Of Rationing: Part 2

Note: In part 1 of this post , we offered a more precise definition of rationing. In part 2 of this post below, we describe the type of health plan we would like for ourselves and our families. In addition to misusing the term “rationing,” another important...

Published Tue, Jun 25 2013 8:45 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Competition, Coverage, Access, Quality, Effectiveness
Tackling Medicaid In Massachusetts

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...

Published Mon, Jun 22 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Medicare, Medicaid, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, ACA, legislation, CMS, MassHealth, DSRIP, SIM Initiative
Data-Driven Policy Making In An Age Of Anecdotes: What Happens When A Foundation Creates A Policy Center?

Why would a health foundation create a public policy research center? The Healing Trust , in Nashville, Tennessee, has funded a wide variety of health-related service and advocacy organizations in Middle Tennessee. But in 2014, we asked them what additional...

Published Thu, Aug 31 2017 9:46 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Policy, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Featured, Tennessee, nonpartisan, State Health Policy
What Kind Of Advance Care Planning Should CMS Pay For?

Currently, Medicare does not offer a paid benefit for advance care planning (ACP). As a result, health care providers who want to assist Medicare enrollees with ACP do so voluntarily and neither they, nor their institutions, are compensated for their...

Published Thu, Mar 19 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Insurance, Public Opinion, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Quality, Hospitals, Personal Experience, Health Law, Comparative Effectiveness, End-of-Life Care, Long-Term Care, Health Care Delivery, Business of Health Care, Palliative Care
High-Quality Health Care For Resettled Refugees: A Sustainable Model

Like Sisyphus pushing the boulder to the top of the hill, efforts to end the Syrian civil war have been equally futile. According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, the violence in Syria has forced 4.8 million refugees to flee their...

Published Wed, May 04 2016 3:23 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Primary Care, States, Coverage, Access, Global Health, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, New York State
Addressing Tobacco And Secondhand Smoke Exposure In Maternal And Child Survival Programs

Ending preventable child and maternal deaths (EPCMD) by 2035 is one of US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) three global health priorities, along with creating an AIDS-Free Generation and protecting communities from infectious diseases. In...

Published Tue, Nov 24 2015 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Children, Environmental Health, Population Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Women's Health, CDC, USAID, tobacco, second hand smoke, cigarettes
The Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, And Pharmacist Pipelines: Continued Growth

The debate as to whether the nation is facing a physician shortage in the future is continuing. When assessing the likely adequacy of the future workforce to meet the health care needs of the nation, a critical factor to consider is the supply and availability...

Published Tue, May 26 2015 8:04 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Organization and Delivery, Health Professionals, health workforce projections, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, access to care
An Interview With George Halvorson: The Kaiser Permanente Renaissance, And Health Reform’s Unfinished Business

For decades, health policymakers considered Kaiser Permanente the lode star of delivery system reform. Yet by the end of 1999, the nation’s oldest and largest group model HMO had experienced almost three years of significant operating losses, the first...

Published Tue, Sep 30 2014 10:44 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Quality, Disparities, Medicaid, Innovation, Health Care Delivery, Business of Health Care
The ACA And People With HIV: The ACA’s Impact And The Implications Of State Choices

Editor's note: This post is also co-authored by Rachel Garfield, a senior researcher and associate director at the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, the largest operating program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Among the groups...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2014 1:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, States, Access, Medicaid, Health Law, AIDS

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Growth Of ACOs And Alternative Payment Models In 2017

Making Investments In Rural Health: What Are The New And Old Challenges?

Building New Partnerships For American Indian And Alaska Native Health

Adolescents And Young Adults: Bringing A Neglected Group Into Cancer Research

Raising The Age Of Purchase For Tobacco Products: Lessons Learned from Tobacco21

Time to Fashion A Quilt From The Patchwork Of Advance Care Planning

Improving The Rhetoric Of Rationing: Part 2

Tackling Medicaid In Massachusetts

Data-Driven Policy Making In An Age Of Anecdotes: What Happens When A Foundation Creates A Policy Center?

What Kind Of Advance Care Planning Should CMS Pay For?

High-Quality Health Care For Resettled Refugees: A Sustainable Model

Addressing Tobacco And Secondhand Smoke Exposure In Maternal And Child Survival Programs

The Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, And Pharmacist Pipelines: Continued Growth

An Interview With George Halvorson: The Kaiser Permanente Renaissance, And Health Reform’s Unfinished Business

The ACA And People With HIV: The ACA’s Impact And The Implications Of State Choices