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In New Health Affairs: Measuring The Benefits Of Boosting Childhood Vaccines

Two new studies published today in the June issue of Health Affairs project huge benefits from a major ramp-up of vaccine development and delivery over the next 10 years in 72 countries. The studies, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 4:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Primary Care, Global Health

IOM Report Calls For Transformation Of Care For The Seriously Ill

The new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on care near the end of life in the United States was released last week. I had the privilege of serving on the Committee for the last two years, involved both in the writing of the report itself and in coming...

Published Wed, Sep 24 2014 10:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Policy, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Workforce, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Delivery, Palliative Care

How Engaging Patients Can Improve Care And Health Outcomes

Patients and caregivers are gaining momentum as powerful new resources in efforts to improve the health care system. They are increasingly becoming active partners in their own care, as well as seeking to make the health care delivery system more responsive...

Published Fri, Sep 26 2014 9:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Chronic Care, Quality, Disparities, Comparative Effectiveness, Research

The Payment Reform Landscape: Value-Oriented Payment Jumps, And Yet …

Today, Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) unveiled some potentially exciting news: Our 2014 National Scorecard on Payment Reform tells us 40 percent of commercial sector payments to doctors and hospitals now flow through value-oriented payment methods...

Published Tue, Sep 30 2014 4:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality, Hospitals, Innovation

Is A Study Of HIV Treatment For Mothers In Africa Unethical?

A global health controversy erupted this summer when the prominent scientific journal Nature ran an article entitled “HIV trial attacked.” Within, commentators squared off over whether a huge ongoing study provides suboptimal and thus unethical treatment...

Published Wed, Oct 01 2014 9:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Chronic Care, Global Health, Health Care Delivery

New Health Policy Brief: The Physician Payments Sunshine Act

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) looks at a section of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA). The PPSA spells out how medical product manufacturers...

Published Fri, Oct 03 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Pharma, Hospitals

The Need For A Comprehensive, Current, And Market-Representative Health Care Cost Benchmark

A recent post from Jonathan Skinner and colleagues on Health Affairs Blog posited an interesting solution to ever-increasing health care costs, suggesting that imposing price caps on all medical services, equal to 125 percent of the Medicare payment,...

Published Tue, Oct 07 2014 8:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare

Social Insurance Is Missing A Piece: Medicare, Medicaid, And Long-term Care

Editor’s note: This is the first of several periodic posts stemming from presentations to be given at “ The Law of Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty ,” a conference that will be held at Yale Law School on November 6 and 7 . The issues covered in this post...

Published Thu, Nov 06 2014 10:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Public Opinion, Medicare, Medicaid, Long-Term Care

Implementing Health Reform: Supreme Court Will Review Tax Credits In Federal Exchanges

On November 7, 2014, the Supreme Court granted certiorari (review) in King v. Burwell , one of the cases involving the question of whether federally-facilitated marketplaces can grant premium tax credits. The Fourth Circuit in King had upheld the Internal...

Published Fri, Nov 07 2014 12:54 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: New HHS 2015 Marketplace Enrollment Estimates

On November 10, 2014, the HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released an estimate of “ How Many Individuals Might Have Marketplace Coverage After the 2015 Open Enrollment Period .” ASPE estimates that 9.1 to 9.9 million will be...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2014 11:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

High Quality, Affordable Care: Making The Case For Smarter Networks

Narrow networks are one means health insurance plans have used to mitigate increases in health insurance premiums. These networks have become more prevalent since the expansion of coverage brought about by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But these narrow...

Published Thu, Nov 13 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Coverage, Quality

GDP+0: Prospects And Challenges Of Bending The Health Care Cost Curve

Editor's note: In addition to Kenneth Kaufman and Charles Roehrig (photos and linked bios above), this post is coauthored by Paul Hughes-Cromwick, a health economist and Senior Analyst at Altarum Institute and Charles Kim, a Senior Vice President...

Published Tue, Oct 16 2012 12:32 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Innovation

Narrative Matters: Reporting Child Abuse

In the newest Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, a seventeen-year-old West African immigrant who’s off to college says her facial bruising was inflicted by her father, and a young pediatrician learns about — and rethinks — the process...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2011 9:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Bioethics, Children

Children’s Health: Health Affairs’ December Issue

The December issue of Health Affairs includes a number of studies examining current threats to the health and health care of America’s children, and what can be done to meet their needs within an ever-evolving health care system. Some of the subjects...

Published Mon, Dec 08 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Policy, Insurance, Spending, Medicaid, Children

CMS Proposes Coverage With Evidence Development For Lung Cancer Screening With Low Dose CT

On November 11, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Proposed Decision Memo for Screening Lung Cancer with Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT), which is expected to be finalized in mid-December. Despite a negative assessment...

Published Tue, Dec 09 2014 8:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Chronic Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Science and Health, Research

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