Health Affairs

Why Capacity Management Is Critical To Hospitals’ ACA-Era Success

If you ask any hospital executive to talk about their top five priorities, he or she will likely reply that reducing expenses and increasing efficiency is one of them. Interestingly, though, a large percentage of these executives consider effective capacity...

Published Mon, Dec 17 2012 1:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Hospitals

Offering Physicians A Grand Bargain

The newly released September issue of Health Affairs contains several thoughtful analyses and proposals about how to change our approach to paying physicians and hospitals. It comes at a time when Washington policymakers begin an annual ritual of Kabuki...

Published Wed, Sep 05 2012 7:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Workforce, Quality

Resilience, Speaking Up, Reframing: Reflections On Recovery

In October 2014---nearly three years after an auto-pedestrian accident that left me unable to walk---I embarked on a six-day bicycle trip through the Sicilian countryside. An account of the earlier accident and my uneven care experience appeared in the...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Personal Experience, Long-Term Care, Disabilities, Narrative Matters

Letting Go Of Employer-Based Health Insurance

Other than the egg-laying exercise surrounding the ACO regulations, 2011 was a quiet year among Washington health policy experts until June 6 when McKinsey released the results of a survey of employer plans under the Affordable Care Act. The McKinsey...

Published Fri, Jul 22 2011 11:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Incorporating Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Into Comparative-Effectiveness Research: The French Experience

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts related to the 4 th European Forum on Health Policy and Management: Innovation & Implementation , held in Berlin, Germany on January 29 and 30, 2015. For updates on the Forum’s results...

Published Fri, Apr 03 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness, Europe, Research

Benjamin Moulton On Patient Engagement

Editor’s note: The February issue of Health Affairs was a thematic issue focused on patient engagement. In conjunction with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) , the journal launched a new initiative inviting questions from patients...

Published Thu, Apr 18 2013 6:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Effectiveness

Implementing Health Reform: Health Reimbursement Arrangements And More

The months of November and December of 2012 and January of 2013 have been a very busy season in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor have released a series of proposed rules dealing...

Published Fri, Jan 25 2013 1:09 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: The Misplaced Hysteria About October 1

On October 1, 2013, the federal exchange and most of the state exchanges will open their doors. Or they may not. And if they do, they may not offer full functionality. But if they do not, it will not, as one would think from the media hysteria surrounding...

Published Sun, Sep 29 2013 6:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States

Health Affairs Briefing: Behavioral Health

With a raging opioid abuse epidemic under way and renewed concerns over rising suicide rates and underdiagnosed maternal depression, mental health and substance abuse are garnering increased attention in the health policy sphere and the public at large...

Published Fri, May 27 2016 6:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Behavioral Health, events

How Patient Groups Have Begun To Influence The Value And Coverage Debate

In 2015, two issues related to medicine could be relied on to generate headlines: drug pricing and the proliferation of new value frameworks that claimed to define the value and even the price of drugs in seemingly easy-to-understand ways. In none of...

Published Fri, Jun 10 2016 11:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, clinical research, patient use of evidence, venture philanthropy

Are Public–Private Partnerships The Future Of Serving Veterans?

Despite hearing far too often only about the problems our veterans face, the majority of transitioning veterans return home safely—free of mental health problems—and quickly reintegrate into the communities where they will continue to serve. Unfortunately...

Published Thu, Nov 10 2016 11:12 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, GrantWatch, Featured, Organization and Delivery

ACA Round-Up: Robust Marketplace Enrollment, CBO On Defining Health Insurance, And More

As of December 19, 2016, the extended deadline for enrolling in coverage for January 1, 2017, 6,356,488 consumers were covered by plans selected on HealthCare.gov , the Department of Health and Human Services announced on December 21. This was over 400...

Published Thu, Dec 22 2016 9:15 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage

New Health Policy Brief: Medicare Physician Payment

The latest health policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released June 25, examines the issue of Medicare physician payment. Specifically, the brief addresses the controversy surrounding the sustainable growth rate (SGR...

Published Mon, Jun 28 2010 8:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Politics, Payment, Physicians, Medicare

CMS Releases Draft 2017 Letter To Issuers In The Federally Facilitated Marketplaces

Implementing Health Reform. On December 23, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its draft 2017 Letter to Issuers in the Federally Facilitated Marketplaces (FFMs). CMS also released a draft bulletin on the timing of rate...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2015 9:01 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Medicaid and CHIP, QHPs, Essential Health Benefits, Federally Facilitated Marketplace, essential community providers, SHOP exchanges, Provider Participation Rate, cost-sharing reductions

New Health Wonk Review

For your health policy reading pleasure, check out the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review, ably presented at the Health Business Blog by David Williams. Copyright © 2010 Health Affairs Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only...

Published Mon, May 31 2010 7:46 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

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