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Health Policy Brief: Extra Federal Medicaid Support

As the annual August congressional recess approaches, one of the issues still to be resolved is whether to extend into the first six months of 2011 a temporary increase in federal contributions to states for Medicaid funding. This provision was enacted...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 6:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, States, Medicaid
Primum Non Nocere: Congress’s Inadequate Medicare Physician Payment Fix

Editor's note: You can read other perspectives on the Medicare physician payment reform pending in Congress in Health Affairs and Health Affairs Blog ( here , here and here ). Partisan gridlock in Washington regarding health policy has been so pervasive...

Published Fri, Jan 24 2014 6:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Medicare, Workforce, Quality
Individual Patient Expanded Access: Developing Principles For A Structural And Regulatory Framework

Editor's note: In addition to Meaghan George, Sara Bencic and Darshak Sanghavi also coauthored this post. Individual patient expanded access, sometimes termed “compassionate use,” refers to situations where access to a drug still in the development...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2014 12:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Access, Bioethics, Pharma, Health Law, Effectiveness, Research
Mismanaged Hospital Operations: A Neglected Threat To Reform

If one performs a “Google” search with the key words: “health reform” and “US OR America” for 2007, one will find about 160,000 links. If one does the same for 2010, there will be over 2.5 million links. Quite a difference! This is not surprising, since...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 9:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Spending, Quality, Hospitals, Patient Safety
Payors In Care Delivery: When Does Vertical Integration Make Sense?

Editor’s note: In addition to Shubham Singhal (linked bio above) this post is authored by Rohit Kumar and Jeris Stueland. Rohit Kumar is a consultant in McKinsey’s Chicago office. Jeris Stueland, an expert in McKinsey’s Healthcare Systems and Services...

Published Wed, Feb 05 2014 12:37 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Physicians, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Competition, Hospitals, Innovation, Business of Health Care
Maryland’s Maverick Health Care Overhaul: A Physician Perspective

Beginning last year, the state of Maryland embarked on an extraordinary new experiment — one that could be a model for the nation. In partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Governor Martin O’Malley’s statewide hospital...

Published Mon, Jul 20 2015 9:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, Quality, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Population Health, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, AHRQ, fee-for-service, RVU targets, Maryland, Martin Makary, Martin O'Malley
The BPC Health Care Reform Plan: A Response To Coulam, Feldman, and Dowd

We commend Robert Coulam, Roger Feldman, and Bryan Dowd for bringing attention to competitive bidding in Medicare, a meaningful strategy to constrain health care costs through reducing inefficiencies in the health care system. The authors have made valuable...

Published Tue, Jul 30 2013 12:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Payment, Health Care Costs, Uncategorized, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Quality
The Electronic Backpack and Crossover Youth: A Connection through the Cloud to Important Life Documents

“And despite all best intentions, when youth leave the foster care system as adults, they are typically only given a sheaf of papers that detail their complicated histories. These records are easily lost and usually incomplete, which often creates burdens...

Published Fri, May 08 2015 10:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Quality, Children, Technology, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, foster care
Having A Baby: Media Confusion Over Charges, Costs, And The Benefits Of Insurance

Note: In addition to Marc Berk, Claudia Schur also coauthored this post. Recent discussion about the Affordable Care Act has intensified the media’s interest in the cost of medical care. While as health services researchers we are perhaps in the best...

Published Wed, Aug 06 2014 10:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Cost
What Kind Of Advance Care Planning Should CMS Pay For?

Currently, Medicare does not offer a paid benefit for advance care planning (ACP). As a result, health care providers who want to assist Medicare enrollees with ACP do so voluntarily and neither they, nor their institutions, are compensated for their...

Published Thu, Mar 19 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Insurance, Public Opinion, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Quality, Hospitals, Personal Experience, Health Law, Comparative Effectiveness, End-of-Life Care, Long-Term Care, Health Care Delivery, Business of Health Care, Palliative Care
Informal Caregiving By And For Older Adults

Editor’s Note: For more on informal caregivers and related issues, see Bridging Troubled Waters: Family Caregivers, Transitions, And Long-Term Care and other articles in the January issue of Health Affairs, titled Advancing Long-Term Services &...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 9:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Aging, Long-Term Care
Implementing Health Reform: Final Rule on Increased Federal Medicaid Matching Funds and FAQ on Medicaid Premium Assistance Programs

On Good Friday, March 29, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services released a final rule regarding increased federal Medicaid percentage changes under the Affordable Care Act for covering adults who are newly eligible under the ACA’s Medicaid...

Published Sun, Mar 31 2013 6:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Policy, Politics, States, Coverage, Access, Medicaid, Reform
Medicare Integrate: A New Benefit Option For Medicare Beneficiaries

I. The Need for Medicare Reform Policy options for making the Medicare program sustainable over the long run will have to identify approaches that reduce costs and improve the quality of care delivered. Effective interventions will be ones that target...

Published Tue, Jul 23 2013 12:35 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Policy, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness, Effectiveness
A Check-Up On Dental Coverage And The ACA

Oral health is an important but often overlooked part of health and insurance coverage. State Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are required to cover children’s dental services (and children’s access to care has been improving...

Published Tue, Mar 24 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, States, Coverage, Health Law, Children, Health Care Delivery, Dental Care
How To Restore The Innovation Ecosystem For Medical Technology

The recent February issue of Health Affairs , which features a series of articles on innovation, provides us with an opportunity to examine the state of America’s innovation ecosystem for medical technology. This ecosystem has produced a myriad of medical...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Competition, Coverage, Innovation, Technology, Research

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Health Policy Brief: Extra Federal Medicaid Support

Primum Non Nocere: Congress’s Inadequate Medicare Physician Payment Fix

Individual Patient Expanded Access: Developing Principles For A Structural And Regulatory Framework

Mismanaged Hospital Operations: A Neglected Threat To Reform

Payors In Care Delivery: When Does Vertical Integration Make Sense?

Maryland’s Maverick Health Care Overhaul: A Physician Perspective

The BPC Health Care Reform Plan: A Response To Coulam, Feldman, and Dowd

The Electronic Backpack and Crossover Youth: A Connection through the Cloud to Important Life Documents

Having A Baby: Media Confusion Over Charges, Costs, And The Benefits Of Insurance

What Kind Of Advance Care Planning Should CMS Pay For?

Informal Caregiving By And For Older Adults

Implementing Health Reform: Final Rule on Increased Federal Medicaid Matching Funds and FAQ on Medicaid Premium Assistance Programs

Medicare Integrate: A New Benefit Option For Medicare Beneficiaries

A Check-Up On Dental Coverage And The ACA

How To Restore The Innovation Ecosystem For Medical Technology