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CBO Projects That 22 Million Would Lose Coverage Under Senate Bill

On June 26, 2017, the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation (referred here collectively as CBO) released a cost estimate on the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) of 2017. The JCT separately released an analysis of the...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2017 8:37 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Congressional Budget Office, 1332 waivers, continuous coverage requirements, The Better Care Reconciliation Act, The American Health Care Act
Amended Senate Bill Includes Waiting Period for Those Who Let Coverage Lapse

On June 26, 2017, the Republican Leadership released an amended version of the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act. It is very similar to the version they released on June 22, but includes two changes. First, it amends a couple of provisions of the...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2017 12:22 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, coverage gap, ACA repeal and replace, waiting period
The Downstream Consequences Of Per Capita Spending Caps In Medicaid

Medicaid, the government program that provides health insurance coverage to low-income and disabled Americans, is the largest payer for health care in the United States in terms of enrollees and the second-largest payer (behind only Medicare) in terms...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2017 10:04 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, American Health Care Act, per capita spending cap system
What’s CHIP Got To Do With It?

Children in US receive their health insurance from multiple sources: the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Medicaid, employer-sponsored insurance (ESI), or a qualified health plan on the Marketplace. Each offering has different cost sharing...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2017 7:52 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP
Sounding The Alarms On Children’s Health Coverage

Buried beneath a very intense discussion on the future of adult coverage in this country has been a far more serious issue in children’s coverage many years in the making. The American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the president’s recent budget proposal...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2017 7:49 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Following the ACA, Medicaid and CHIP, ACA repeal and replace, AHCA
ACA Round-Up: QHP Application Deadline Passes, House v. Price, Special Enrollment Periods

June 21, 2017, was the last day for insurers to file qualified health plan applications in the 39 states that use HealthCare.gov, including federally facilitated marketplace (FFM), plan management, and state-based marketplace-federal platform states....

Published Sat, Jun 24 2017 6:11 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, special enrollment periods, house v. price
Medicaid Round Two: The Senate’s Draft “Better Care Reconciliation Act Of 2017”

Although it differs in important details, the draft Medicaid provisions of the Better Care Reconciliation Act — the Senate’s version of Affordable Care Act “repeal and replace” — share the vision of its House-passed counterpart, the American...

Published Sat, Jun 24 2017 2:25 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Uncategorized, Medicaid, Featured, Following the ACA, Medicaid and CHIP, ACA repeal and replace, Trumpcare, block grants, Medicaid per capita cap
The Senate Health Care Bill

Yesterday, Senate Republican leaders released a discussion draft of their version of health-care legislation, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to put this legislation to a vote next week with the...

Published Fri, Jun 23 2017 10:41 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP
The Payment Reform Landscape: Is The Debate Over Retrospective Versus Prospective Bundled Payments A Distraction?

Based on surveys of health plans by Catalyst for Payment Reform, less than 3 percent of payments in the commercial market are “bundled.” One can argue that there have been more conferences and webinars about bundled payment than actual bundled payments...

Published Fri, Jun 23 2017 6:25 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Catalyst for Payment Reform, bundled payment
Unpacking The Senate’s Take On ACA Repeal And Replace

On June 22, 2017, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the Senate GOP’s version of Affordable Care Act repeal, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 . The Senate bill is in many respects quite different from the House’s American...

Published Thu, Jun 22 2017 7:05 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP
A New Definition Of Health Equity To Guide Future Efforts And Measure Progress

Editor’s note: Paula Braveman was one of the theme advisors for the June 2017 Health Affairs equity theme issue . Until recently, talking about “equity” as a health researcher in the United States seemed almost radical. Today, the term “health equity...

Published Thu, Jun 22 2017 5:43 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, health equity, culture of health
Health Affairs Web First: Significant Racial Disparities Found In Hospital Readmissions

Reducing thirty-day surgical readmission rates has been a major initiative under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Racial disparities in surgical outcomes, such as thirty-day hospital rehospitalizations have...

Published Wed, Jun 21 2017 2:38 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Web First
Deploying The Cascade Of Care Framework To Address The Opioid Epidemic Means Taking A Closer Look At Quality Measures

In a March 13, 2017, Health Affairs Blog post , Arthur Robin Williams, Edward Nunes, and Mark Olfson propose repurposing the “Cascade of Care” framework, once used to combat the HIV/AIDS crisis, to fight the opioid epidemic. Williams and colleagues propose...

Published Wed, Jun 21 2017 7:43 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Health Policy Lab, Substance Use Disorders, opioid epidemic, Cascade of Care, data collection systems, tracking and delivery system
Building Sustainable Partnerships To Improve Access To *** Cancer Treatment For Uninsured Women

*** cancer is a terrifying disease for most women. In the United States, it is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women ages twenty to fifty-nine years . More than 5,100 women are diagnosed with—and at least 1,100 women die from—*** cancer in New...

Published Tue, Jun 20 2017 10:34 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Access, Hospitals, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, Uninsured, breast cancer, New York City, payment model, imaging and radiology centers
At Drug Hearing, Senators Discuss Meanings Of Price And Value—And Debate Health Reform

On Tuesday, June 13, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee held the first of three planned hearings on high drug prices . This hearing, titled “How the Drug Delivery System Affects What Patients Pay,” was designed to elicit...

Published Tue, Jun 20 2017 8:44 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Drugs and Medical Innovation, prescription drug prices, value-based pricing, outcomes-based contracts, Medicaid best-price rule

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CBO Projects That 22 Million Would Lose Coverage Under Senate Bill

Amended Senate Bill Includes Waiting Period for Those Who Let Coverage Lapse

The Downstream Consequences Of Per Capita Spending Caps In Medicaid

What’s CHIP Got To Do With It?

Sounding The Alarms On Children’s Health Coverage

ACA Round-Up: QHP Application Deadline Passes, House v. Price, Special Enrollment Periods

Medicaid Round Two: The Senate’s Draft “Better Care Reconciliation Act Of 2017”

The Senate Health Care Bill

The Payment Reform Landscape: Is The Debate Over Retrospective Versus Prospective Bundled Payments A Distraction?

Unpacking The Senate’s Take On ACA Repeal And Replace

A New Definition Of Health Equity To Guide Future Efforts And Measure Progress

Health Affairs Web First: Significant Racial Disparities Found In Hospital Readmissions

Deploying The Cascade Of Care Framework To Address The Opioid Epidemic Means Taking A Closer Look At Quality Measures

Building Sustainable Partnerships To Improve Access To *** Cancer Treatment For Uninsured Women

At Drug Hearing, Senators Discuss Meanings Of Price And Value—And Debate Health Reform