Health Affairs

Why Are We Years Away From A Zika Vaccine?

In the new and urgent fight against the Zika Virus, most global health officials and policymakers are focused on immediate steps to curb the disease’s transmission. That’s important because the chances of developing a vaccine anytime soon are slim. To...

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

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Podcast, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Drugs and Medical Technology, vaccines, Zika virus

Narrative Matters: ‘If Only I’d Known Then What I Know Now’

Patent registries collect data for the scientific assessment of patient outcomes for particular conditions, devices, and treatment protocols. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is currently developing a catalog of all such registries around...

Published Tue, Aug 21 2012 11:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Physicians, Personal Experience, Comparative Effectiveness, Patient Safety

Beyond Access: High Quality Care For All

In medical school, I had an epiphany about my role as a doctor during my obstetrics-gynecology rotation at the county safety-net hospital in Fresno, California. I loved the thrill and satisfaction of delivering babies, but after about 10 births, it hit...

Published Wed, Apr 30 2014 7:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Access, Quality, Disparities

Implementing Health Reform: Premium Tax Credits

On August 12, the Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury (Internal Revenue Service) issued three notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) as part of their continuing effort to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposed rules will...

Published Sat, Aug 13 2011 10:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The ACA’s Section 1332: Escape Hatch Or Straightjacket For Reform?

In state capitols across the country, health care lobbyists and consultants are pushing a relatively unknown provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA): Section 1332. According to some proponents, these waivers will “ turbocharge state innovation ” and...

Published Thu, May 26 2016 7:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Medicare, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, employer mandate, Section 1332 waivers, Essential Health Benefits, Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver

Saving Money While Providing Benefit In Medicare: A Standard Applied Only To Hospice

Medicare is caught between two countervailing impulses: the desire of beneficiaries (and providers and the adult children of beneficiaries) to have a benefit package that covers more, rather than less, and the desire to restrain program spending due to...

Published Thu, May 16 2013 1:18 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness, End-of-Life Care

A Wannabe Winemaker Plots The Path To A New Health Care Delivery System

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil recently surprised readers with his comments on “ Why I Oppose Payment Reform .” Those of us who fell for that bit of click bait discovered that, of course, he does not oppose reform. Rather, he wanted to remind...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Quality, Hospitals, Health Care Delivery, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Value, Payment Reform, Health Professionals, Alan Weil

Structuring Legal, Ethical, And Practical Workplace Health Incentives: A Reply to Horwitz, Kelly, And DiNardo

This commentary is in response to the March 5, 2013 Health Affairs article, " Wellness Incentives in the Workplace: Cost Savings through Cost Shifting to Unhealthy Lifestyles ." In that article, Jill Horwitz and coauthors express concerns about...

Published Tue, Apr 23 2013 10:42 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

The State Of Medicaid In New York: Progress And The Road To Value-Based Payments

As states throughout the nation work to change how health care is delivered and paid for, New York is undertaking its largest effort yet to transform the state’s Medicaid health care delivery and payment system through the Delivery System Reform Incentive...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2015 7:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program, New York State

Representative Camp: Where Does Health Reform Stand Now?

Speaking at a Health Affairs media breakfast this morning, Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) did not offer much hope for the prospect of moving toward universal coverage, either now or in the foreseeable future. Camp, the senior Republican on the House Ways and Means...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:31 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Medicare, Coverage

Implementing Health Reform: The Final Market Reform Rule

The time is quickly approaching when health insurers must file the rates and forms they will need to put in place for 2014. The Department of Health and Human Services is rapidly releasing the final rules that insurers will need to determine the coverage...

Published Fri, Feb 22 2013 11:20 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Challenges Of Payment Reform And Administrative Simplification

As both a Canadian and an analyst who focuses on US healthcare, I have an abiding curiosity in comparisons between the US and Canadian systems, so it was with great interest that I read the recent Health Affairs article by Dante Morra and coauthors entitled...

Published Wed, Aug 31 2011 9:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Million Veteran Program: Building VA’s Mega-Database for Genomic Medicine

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick (and Wilkins) being named Nobel Prize recipients for discovering DNA, the genetic code. In the half century since, there has been an exponential growth of knowledge and accomplishment based...

Published Mon, Nov 19 2012 11:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health IT, Technology, Science and Health, Research

Narrative Matters, The Next Chapter: Amy Berman Reflects On ‘Living Life In My Own Way’

Almost four years ago I was diagnosed with terminal cancer. And yet, as devastating as the diagnosis was, I have a great story to share, a success in every sense. I did something so simple yet so rarely done. I chose the road less taken, and it led to...

Published Thu, May 22 2014 12:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, End-of-Life Care, Long-Term Care, Narrative Matters

Implementing Health Reform: 2016 Benefit And Payment Parameters Proposed Rule, Insurance Provisions

On November 21, 2014, the Centers on Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services released its proposed Benefits and Payment Parameters (BPP) Rule . Part I of this post examined the benefit provisions of this proposed...

Published Sun, Nov 23 2014 1:15 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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