Health Affairs

Health Affairs’ September Issue: Payment Reforms, Prescription Drugs, And More

The September issue of Health Affairs , a variety issue, includes a number of studies examining aspects of payment reform, the impact of certain ACA provisions, the value of some high-cost anticancer drugs, and more. It also includes a DataGraphic examining...

Published Wed, Sep 07 2016 1:04 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, Health Affairs journal

Pain Care As A Catalyst For Primary Care Transformation

As part of our mission to improve New Jersey’s health care delivery systems and reduce the costs of care for its underserved populations, The Nicholson Foundation has been working to strengthen primary care in the state’s safety-net system. Central to...

Published Thu, Sep 08 2016 2:17 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Primary Care, States, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, Safety Net, Behavioral Health, opioids, New Jersey, chronic pain, substance use, Project ECHO, pain management

CMS Sees No 2015 Risk Corridor Payouts But Contemplates Settling Insurer Lawsuits

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established three premium stabilization programs : the permanent risk adjustment program and the transitional risk corridor and reinsurance programs. These programs were modeled after similar risk sharing programs in the...

Published Mon, Sep 12 2016 10:29 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, reinsurance program, risk adjustment program

Health Affairs Web First: Employee-Sponsored Family Health Premium 2016 Costs

Annual family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average of 3 percent to $18,412 this year, a modest increase at a time when workers’ wages (2.5 percent) and inflation (1.1 percent) also grew modestly, according to the benchmark...

Published Wed, Sep 14 2016 8:03 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, webfirst, Employer Health Benefits Survey

How To Think About Health Technology Assessment: A Response To Goldman And Coauthors

From 3,000 miles away—on the other side of the Atlantic and more precisely from England—it is hard not to sense a note of frustration in the Health Affairs Blog post by Dana Goldman, Sam Nussbaum, and Mark Linthicum: “We need health technology...

Published Thu, Sep 15 2016 8:10 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Europe, Featured, Costs and Spending, National Health Service, Drugs and Medical Innovation, health technology assessment

Taking Physician Practice Performance Into Account In Recertification: A Reply To Muney And Orszag

In their thoughtful Health Affairs Blog posting, Alan Muney and Peter Orszag emphasize the importance of practice assessment in providing “a sustainable method for a continuous infusion of quality and affordability into our health care system.” However...

Published Fri, Oct 25 2013 10:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Chronic Care, Workforce, Quality

Implementing Health Reform: Individual Mandate Deadline Extended; What’s Behind The Policy Cancellation Stories?

On October 28, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a “ Question and Answer ” that extends until March 31, 2014, the time during which individuals may enroll in coverage through the exchanges and still be in compliance with the individual...

Published Tue, Oct 29 2013 8:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, States, Medicaid, Children

April’s Most-Read Health Affairs Blog Posts

A roundtable on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and health reform — featuring Bob Berenson, Tom Scully, Gail Wilensky, and Bruce Vladeck — was the most-read Health Affairs Blog post for April. Also on the list were posts on...

Published Mon, May 03 2010 1:53 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Consumers, Medicare, Medicaid, Technology

Child Obesity: The Obama Administration’s Way Forward

The White House’s Task Force on Childhood Obesity, headed by First Lady Michelle Obama, today released recommendations to the President designed to lower the child obesity rate from about 20 percent now to 5 percent in 2030. Currently, one out of...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 2:40 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Children, Obesity

The Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act: What Repeal And Delay Would Mean For Coverage, Premiums, And The Budget

Late in the day on July 19, 2017, the Senate released the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act (ORRA) of 2017 ( summary ). The bill would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) coverage provisions, but delay the repeal of the coverage provisions until...

Published Wed, Jul 19 2017 6:37 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA repeal and replace

The Latest CBO Score Of The Better Care Reconciliation Act Leaves 22 Million Uninsured by 2026

On July 20, 2017, the Senate Budget committee released the latest version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act ( summary ), which was sent to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for scoring. It is basically identical to the second BCRA draft posted...

Published Thu, Jul 20 2017 12:27 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA repeal and replace, BCRA

Medicaid Expansion Reduced Unpaid Medical Debt And Increased Financial Satisfaction

As federal lawmakers continue to debate whether to repeal, and perhaps eventually replace, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is clear that Republican health care proposals would significantly scale back a key feature of the ACA: allowing states to expand...

Published Mon, Jul 24 2017 6:49 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Medicaid and CHIP, medicaid expansion states, medical debt

IRS Finalizes Premium Tax Credit Rules Virtually Unchanged

On July 24, 2017, the Internal Revenue Service finalized proposed and temporary regulations governing Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits that had been issued in July of 2014 . Except for one minor technical change, the 2014 proposed and temporary...

Published Tue, Jul 25 2017 7:10 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage

What US Budget Cuts To Global Health Could Mean For Future Funding

On May 23, 2017, President Donald Trump released his FY 2018 budget request to Congress that includes approximately $2.5 billion in cuts to global health . These cuts had been foreshadowed in the administration’s earlier “ Budget Blueprint ,” which sought...

Published Wed, Jul 26 2017 9:27 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Costs and Spending, Global Health Policy, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, development assistance for health

US Drug Prices And R&D, Take 2: A Reply To Grabowski And Manning, And To Light

Recently we (along with Zachary Helms) published a Health Affairs Blog post refuting the pharmaceutical industry argument that the higher prices the industry charges in the US are justified because they are necessary to support research and development...

Published Thu, Jul 27 2017 9:53 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Innovation, prescription drug prices, Pharmaceutical R&D

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