Health Affairs

Clinical Nuance: Benefit Design Meets Behavioral Economics

On Capitol Hill, there’s a growing chorus of support from both sides of the aisle to move the focus of health care payment incentives from volume to value. Earlier this month, legislators introduced proposals that would have fixed the sustainable growth...

Published Thu, Apr 03 2014 11:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Pharma, Quality, Effectiveness

Wide Variations Found In Knee Replacement Surgery Costs And Quality

Knee osteoarthritis is a common ailment—and treatment is expensive: in 2008 total knee replacement inpatient costs in the United States exceeded $9 billion—the highest among the ten procedures for which demand is growing the fastest. A new study, released...

Published Wed, May 09 2012 1:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Care Costs, Quality, Hospitals, Innovation

Medicare’s Looming Risk Transfer

Editor’s Note: Below, Jaan Sidorov analyzes the risk-shifting inherent in proposals for Medicare reform. Today, Health Affairs Blog is also publishing the first installment of a two-part post by Troyen Brennan and Thomas Lee, which addresses risk...

Published Wed, Aug 24 2011 8:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare

Health Affairs Entry Point Looks at Affordable Care Act Four Years Later

With the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), January 1, 2014 was supposed to be a day of triumph when millions of Americans would newly have access to health insurance, says Timothy Jost, Washington and Lee University professor of law...

Published Fri, Jan 10 2014 10:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, States, Coverage, Medicaid, Health Law

Implementing Health Reform: Amidst Turbulence, Federal Work Goes On

The Supreme Court continues to mull the fate of the Affordable Care Act. The House of Representatives continues to push budget bills that would defund ACA programs. Many state legislatures have adjourned for the year without taking significant action...

Published Fri, Apr 27 2012 10:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Gawande Earns Impact Award at Policy Conference

Physician/writer Atul Gawande was the winner of this year’s Health Services Research Impact award at the National Health Policy Conference cohosted by AcademyHealth and Health Affairs earlier this week. At Tuesday’s lunch, Gawande was scheduled to receive...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2010 2:56 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Spending, Quality, Reform

Health Policy Brief: Rebalancing Medicaid Long-Term Services And Supports

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) examines the changed landscape of Medicaid long-term services and support (LTSS) spending 25 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In...

Published Fri, Sep 18 2015 9:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Chronic Care, Quality, Disabilities, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, RWJF, Long-term Services and Supports, Health Policy Briefs, Community Health, LTSS

Exhibit Of The Month: Maps Tell Powerful Stories About Children, Neighborhoods, And Possible Policy Solutions

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing “ Exhibit of the Month ” series. Readers who’d like to highlight other noteworthy exhibits from the same issue are encouraged to make their pitch in the comments section below. Maps and health have been powerfully...

Published Tue, Nov 25 2014 12:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Disparities, Children, Exhibit of the Month

Rethinking Graduate Medical Education Funding: An Interview With Gail Wilensky

A recent Institute of Medicine report has stirred controversy by proposing to significantly reshape the way Medicare graduate medical education funding is distributed. However, before the panel that wrote the report grappled with how the federal government...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2014 7:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Physicians, Medicare, Workforce

Health Affairs Briefing: Strategies For The Global ‘Decade Of Vaccines’

Immunizing the world’s children against infectious diseases has dramatically cut childhood death and suffering in recent decades. In 2010, philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates called for a new “Decade of Vaccines” to vault the progress dramatically...

Published Tue, May 31 2011 11:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Global Health, Children, Innovation

Health Affairs Comparative Effectiveness Research Briefing Available For Viewing

Video and speaker materials from the Health Affairs briefing on the journal's October issue, " Current Challenges In Comparative Effectiveness Research ," are available on the Health Affairs website . The event is broken out by panel and...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2012 11:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Comparative Effectiveness

A Sizzling Health Wonk Review

A belated shout-out to Julie Ferguson’s summertime edition of the Health Wonk Review over at Workers’ Comp Insider. Julie offers a great collection of health policy blog posts for reading at your desk or at the beach. Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 1:42 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

More Avoidable Deaths In The US Than In Three European Countries

Amenable mortality—deaths that could have been avoided with timely and appropriate health care—accounts for 21 percent of deaths among men and 30 percent among women under the age of 75 in several high-income countries. A Health Affairs Web First study...

Published Thu, Aug 30 2012 8:33 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Chronic Care, Quality, Patient Safety, Europe

Profiles Of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leader Awardees

On November 21, Health Affairs released a series of Web First articles profiling the winners of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Young Leaders Awards, which were announced this Fall on the occasion of the Foundation’s fortieth anniversary. The RWJF...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2012 9:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Quality, Hospitals, Disparities, Innovation, End-of-Life Care

New Health Policy Brief: Uninsurance Rates And The Affordable Care Act

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation considers how uninsurance rates are changing under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was implemented to decrease the number of Americans lacking health insurance. Four government...

Published Tue, May 24 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, ACA, uninsurance

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