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Call For Papers: NBER Conference On Hospital Organization And Productivity

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is organizing a conference on how organizational structure, management practices, and related innovations affect the costs, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes of health care, focusing on the hospital industry...

Published Thu, Feb 21 2013 3:24 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Competition, Quality, Hospitals, Effectiveness

Rapid Learning For Precision Medicine: A Big Data To Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative

Proposal The National Research Council's Precision Medicine report found that it is imperative to create a new scientific base for biomedical research, clinical care, and public health that accurately reflects the genetic variations in diseases and...

Published Thu, Feb 21 2013 9:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Health IT, Comparative Effectiveness, Innovation, Technology, Science and Health, Research

Implementing Health Reform: The Essential Health Benefits Final Rule

The march toward 2014 continues, as the Department of Health and Human Services issued on February 20, 2013 a final regulation covering the essential health benefits, actuarial value, and accreditation requirements of the Affordable Care Act. (See a fact...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2013 6:41 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Winners And Losers From The Zaltrap Price Discount: Unintended Consequences?

Soon after Sanofi Pharmaceuticals’ Inc. August 2012 launch of the biologic drug ziv-aflibercept (brand name Zaltrap) into the U.S. market, its price triggered an unusual act of defiance on the part of oncolAogists. Physicians from Memorial Sloan-Kettering...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2013 10:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

Continued Growth Of Public And Private Accountable Care Organizations

On January 10, 2013 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 106 Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will join the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). CMS reports that this brings the total number of MSSP ACOs to “more...

Published Tue, Feb 19 2013 9:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Physicians, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, States, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals

A Valentine’s Day Health Wonk Review

Over at the Healthcare Talent Transformation blog, Peggy Salvatore hosts a Valentine's Day edition of the Health Wonk Review . Among the posts Peggy highlights is David Rothman's Health Affairs Blog essay on patient engagement and Americans'...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2013 12:47 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Effectiveness

Health Policy Brief: Patient Engagement

A new Health Policy Brief summarizes the key findings in the field of patient engagement and draws on the February 2013 issue of Health Affairs , entitled “ New Era Of Patient Engagement .” A growing body of evidence demonstrates that patients who are...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2013 11:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Quality, Research

Video Of HA Patient Engagement Briefing Is Available

If you are looking for something to watch over the long weekend and missed the recent Health Affairs briefing on our February issue, " New Era Of Patient Engagement ," video and speaker materials from the event are available on the Health Affairs...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2013 11:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Quality

National Health Insurance Reconsidered

Americans remain deeply divided over health care. Liberals emphasize the goal of comprehensive, lifelong health insurance for every citizen. Conservatives emphasize the goal of a more competitive free market in health care, without government getting...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2013 9:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Spending, Competition, Coverage

The New Imperative Of Patient Engagement For Hospitals And Health Systems

Currently, most hospitals and health systems focus on patient engagement because of their mission to deliver patient-centric care. These efforts are pursued despite the neutral or even negative economic consequences to these organizations, which operate...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2013 5:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Payment, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Hospitals

Will The Readmission Rate Penalties Drive Hospital Behavior Changes?

Since the development of the metric in 1984 by Anderson and Steinberg , inpatient hospital readmission rates have been used as a marker for hospital quality. A good deal of attention is now being paid to the new readmission rate penalties in the Affordable...

Published Thu, Feb 14 2013 9:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Disparities

The Effects Of Health Costs On Family Incomes Leads HA Blog January Top Ten

Art Kellermann and David Auerbach's look at the effects of health care costs on middle class incomes leads the Health Affairs Blog most-read list for January. Next on the list are three posts by Tim Jost looking at the implementation of the Affordable...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2013 12:30 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Public Opinion, Health Care Costs, States, Medicare, Pharma, Health Law

The Current Medicare Debate Will Not Solve The Program’s Problems

The mistake policymakers have long made in debating Medicare (and Medicaid, though that’s a topic for another day) is that they talk about Medicare the same way they talk about Social Security. It’s understandable at some level, since these two programs...

Published Tue, Feb 12 2013 11:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Patient Is In: Listening To Low-Income Californians

The dramatic expansions in health insurance coverage included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will give millions of low-income Americans greater choice in where and how they receive their health care. Until now, most of the discussion...

Published Mon, Feb 11 2013 10:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Physicians, Primary Care, States, Competition, Disparities

Health Policy Brief: Federally Facilitated Exchanges

The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explores the issues facing the federal government and the states in the establishment and operation of federally facilitated health insurance exchanges. These are...

Published Fri, Feb 08 2013 11:06 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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