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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Fri, Feb 08 2013 11:06 AM
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