Health Affairs

The Payment Reform Landscape: Capitation With Quality

When I began this blog series in February, I explained how Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) views different payment reform models along a continuum of financial risk. Thus far, we have used this series to explore the evidence behind “upside only” models...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2014 7:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Quality, Cost, Health Care Delivery

Payment And Delivery Reform Case Study: Cancer Care

Editor’s note: In addition to Darshak Sanghavi, Mark McClellan, and Kavita Patel, this post is also authored by Kate Samuels, project manager at Brookings. It is adapted from a forthcoming full-length case study, the second in a series from the Engelberg...

Published Thu, Jul 03 2014 10:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality, Innovation, Long-Term Care, Health Care Delivery

New Health Affairs July Issue: The Impact Of Big Data On Health Care

Health Affairs explores the promise of big data in improving health care effectiveness and efficiency in its July issue . Many articles examine the potential of approaches such as predictive analytics and address the unavoidable privacy implications of...

Published Tue, Jul 08 2014 2:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health IT, Hospitals, Comparative Effectiveness, Technology, Research, Business of Health Care

Interview: IOM President Harvey Fineberg Reflects On Lessons Learned

On June 16, 2014, I spoke with Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, as he wrapped up his second six-year term as president of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). We discussed how requests for work come to the IOM, the attributes of IOM reports that make them effective...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2014 1:26 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Science and Health, Research, Business of Health Care

Leighton Ku On Medicaid In Health Wonk Review

Over at the Incidental Economist, Don Taylor, Aaron Carroll, and Austin Frakt present the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Among the posts highlighted by this trio is Leighton Ku’s Health Affairs Blog post on Medicaid. As the Wonk Review...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2011 2:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog, Medicaid

Implementing Health Reform: A Final Exchange Blueprint And Other News

On August 14, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services took one step closer to implementation of the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges by releasing the final version of its Blueprint for Approval of Affordable State-based and State...

Published Wed, Aug 15 2012 5:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

New IOM Report Addresses Growing Complexity Of Health Care

Health Affairs Blog commends to readers today’s newly released Institute of Medicine report, “Best Care At Lower Cost: The Path To Continuously Learning Health Care In America.” The report states that “achieving a learning health care system – one in...

Published Thu, Sep 06 2012 7:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Spending, Workforce, Quality, Science and Health

The Beacon Communities At One Year: The Colorado Experience

Editor’s Note: The federal government’s Beacon Program provides funding to 17 communities that have already made inroads in the development of secure, private, and accurate systems of electronic health record (EHR) adoption and health information...

Published Thu, May 19 2011 11:56 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health IT, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Quality

Just Another Hospital Weekend, Or Life And Death?

Suppose you need to drive from Boston to San Francisco, about 3200 miles, over the next 7 days. At an average speed limit of 55 mph you could accomplish this by driving about 10 hours a day, including stops for rest and food breaks; a grueling but not...

Published Mon, May 23 2011 12:25 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Care Costs, Quality, Hospitals, Patient Safety

Pioneer ACOs: The Right Direction, But What’s The Goal?

Editor’s Note: The post below discusses the recent announcement regarding accountable care organizations by the Center For Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. This is also the topic of another post, by Douglas Hastings, published today on Health Affairs...

Published Wed, May 25 2011 8:31 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Health Law

Saving The Shared Savings Program (ACOs) Part Three: Quality, Payment, And Data Issues

Editor’s Note: This is the third and last installment of a series of blog posts by Ron Klar offering suggestions on how to make the Medicare Shared Savings Program a more viable vehicle for the creation of accountable care organizations. You can...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 9:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Spending, Medicare, Quality

In New Health Affairs: Measuring The Benefits Of Boosting Childhood Vaccines

Two new studies published today in the June issue of Health Affairs project huge benefits from a major ramp-up of vaccine development and delivery over the next 10 years in 72 countries. The studies, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 4:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Primary Care, Global Health

IOM Report Calls For Transformation Of Care For The Seriously Ill

The new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on care near the end of life in the United States was released last week. I had the privilege of serving on the Committee for the last two years, involved both in the writing of the report itself and in coming...

Published Wed, Sep 24 2014 10:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Policy, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Workforce, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Delivery, Palliative Care

How Engaging Patients Can Improve Care And Health Outcomes

Patients and caregivers are gaining momentum as powerful new resources in efforts to improve the health care system. They are increasingly becoming active partners in their own care, as well as seeking to make the health care delivery system more responsive...

Published Fri, Sep 26 2014 9:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Chronic Care, Quality, Disparities, Comparative Effectiveness, Research

The Payment Reform Landscape: Value-Oriented Payment Jumps, And Yet …

Today, Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) unveiled some potentially exciting news: Our 2014 National Scorecard on Payment Reform tells us 40 percent of commercial sector payments to doctors and hospitals now flow through value-oriented payment methods...

Published Tue, Sep 30 2014 4:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality, Hospitals, Innovation

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