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Government Requests Input On Possible Contraceptive Coverage Compromises

In Zubik v. Burwell , the Supreme Court vacated and remanded six federal appellate judgements on whether an accommodation for employers that object to providing contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s preventive services coverage mandate...

Published Thu, Jul 21 2016 2:46 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, contraceptive coverage, employer coverage, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Preventive Services Mandate, advance premium tax credits, data-matching issues

The Payment Reform Landscape: A Road Map For States To Bring Their Transparency ‘A’ Game

It is accepted truth in some academic and policy circles that pursuing real price transparency is a fool’s errand, that making health care prices clear to consumers may only be trivially useful or even counterproductive. Earlier this year, a group backed...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, APCDs, Catalyst for Payment Reform, high deductible health plans, Price Transparency, shoppable services

Introducing Health Affairs Today

Last week, Health Affairs launched a new free service for our all of our readers. In an effort to consolidate the many emails that some of you had already been getting from Health Affairs—including Health Affairs Blog updates, GrantWatch, Narrative...

Published Wed, Jul 27 2016 12:00 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

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

A Ransomware Epidemic And An Overdue National Health IT Safety Center

A rapid increase in computerization of health care organizations (HCOs) around the world has raised their profile as lucrative targets for cyber-criminals. Recently there has been a spate of high-profile ransomware attacks involving hospitals ’ electronic...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2016 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Featured, Costs and Spending, ONC, EHRs, Health IT Safety Center, cyber security

Three Steps Congress Can Take To Accelerate Medicare’s Delivery Transformation

The pace of change in the United States’ health care system is accelerating. Building on work by private and public payers, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officials are pursuing a transformation of how our health care system pays for...

Published Tue, Aug 02 2016 9:01 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Medicare, Quality, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, CMMI, Long-term Services and Supports, ACOs, Medicare Advantage, Telemedicine, Alternative Payment Models, value-based insurance design

Against North Carolina’s HB2 Law: Mental Health And Discrimination Cannot Co-Exist

This past May, the board of directors of Grantmakers in Health (GIH) decided to relocate the organization’s 2017 Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy from Charlotte, North Carolina, to another city. This difficult decision was made in light of the...

Published Thu, Aug 04 2016 2:13 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Politics, States, Disparities, Children, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Mental Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, LGBT issues, transgender discrimination

To Address Substance Use Among Adolescents, Look To Pediatric Primary Care

The rising rates of opioid deaths and the legalization of marijuana sale and use for adults have made substance use a prominent topic from local governments to presidential politics. As illustrated by numerous articles in Health Affairs’ June 2016 theme...

Published Tue, Aug 09 2016 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, Opioid Addiction, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, Substance Use Disorders, prediatrics

Overcoming Lower-Income Patients’ Concerns About Trust And Respect From Providers

This blog post is the third in a series discussing how vulnerable segments of the US population interact with and experience the health care system. This research is part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Right Place, Right Time initiative. The...

Published Thu, Aug 11 2016 10:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Medicare, Quality, Innovations in Care Delivery, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, culture of health, low-income patients

Graduate Medical Education For The 21st Century

I began my career as a residency program director some 35 years ago when I founded a new general internal medicine training program. Despite my experience as a program director, I discovered I still had much to learn when the organization I now lead,...

Published Tue, Aug 16 2016 8:23 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Quality, Hospitals, Mental Health, Health Policy Lab, Organization and Delivery, Health Professionals, Graduate medical education, residency

CMS Focuses On Provider Steering Of Medicare- And Medicaid-Eligible People To Marketplaces

Aetna’s August 15 announcement that is reducing its marketplace participation from 778 to 242 counties has further focused attention on the need to stabilize marketplace risk pools. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have already taken...

Published Fri, Aug 19 2016 9:14 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, APTC, risk pools

Plaintiffs Say ACA Equity Rules Illegally Require Abortion, Gender Transition Services

On August 23, 2016, a Catholic hospital system, Catholic medical group, Christian medical association, and five states filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) regulations implementing section 1557 , the nondiscrimination...

Published Wed, Aug 24 2016 6:44 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, section 1557, Texas, Abortion, abortion coverage, transgender discrimination

ASPE: Medicaid Expansion Lowers Marketplace Premiums

On August 25, 2016, the Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released a report titled “The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Marketplace Premiums.” ASPE concludes that Marketplace premiums are about 7 percent lower in Medicaid...

Published Fri, Aug 26 2016 7:20 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, Medicaid expansion, federal poverty level

Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up

Today is of course tax day, but over at the HealthBlawg, David Harlow marks the day in happier fashion, offering the best in health policy blogging in the latest Health Wonk Review. In an entertaining edition titled “Block That Metaphor,”...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 2:11 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Blog

Implementing Health Reform: Congressional Coverage, Multi-State Plan Program, And ACA Litigation With A Twist

On September 30, 2012, as the federal government reached the end of its fiscal year and teetered on the brink of a shutdown, implementation of the Affordable Care Act moved forward on several fronts. First, the Office of Personnel Management issued a...

Published Tue, Oct 01 2013 4:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, States, Medicaid

Part Of The Solution: Next Steps In Medication Adherence Policy

We’ve heard a lot of encouraging words lately about how the improved use of medications is an essential but overlooked pathway to improved patient outcomes and sustainable health care costs. Consider these three signposts. . The Congressional Budget Office...

Published Fri, Oct 04 2013 11:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Pharma, Quality

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