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Health Care Economics 101 And The Supreme Court

Editor’s note: Kathryn Gilbert, a J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, is a coauthor of this post, in addition to Jill Horwitz and Helen Levy (photos and linked bios above). The case that will decide the fate of the most important...

Published Wed, May 23 2012 1:29 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Bioethics, Hospitals, Health Law

A Compromise Proposal On Financing Health Reform

Both the new House health reform bill and the Senate Finance Committee bill, despite their best efforts, have to impose some taxes on some taxpayers; they cannot get all of a trillion dollars of subsidies for insurance out of Medicare. But they differ...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 9:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Cost

The Importance Of The Shared-Savings ACO Model

Certainly no Medicare provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has generated more interest among health care providers, policy analysts, and consultants than the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) for accountable care organizations (ACOs). Because...

Published Tue, Jan 25 2011 10:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Medicare

Berwick, Williams To Speak At The National Health Policy Conference

The success of health reform depends on the efforts of both the public and private sectors. At the 2011 National Health Policy Conference (NHPC), newly confirmed speakers include leading players in both of those realms. Don Berwick, the Administrator...

Published Thu, Jan 27 2011 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid

A Halloween Health Wonk Review

For some of the best recent health policy blogging, check out last week’s “Halloween” edition of the Health Wonk Review. Among the articles highlighted is a piece from the Health Affairs Blog by Arnold Milstein and coauthors on replicating...

Published Tue, Nov 03 2009 1:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

The Case For Meaningful Use: Strengthened, Not Weakened

Last week the Archives of Internal Medicine published a study that calls into question the value of electronic health records, or EHRs, clinical decision support, and the federal “meaningful use” program, which provides financial incentives...

Published Fri, Feb 11 2011 8:42 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Health IT, Quality

Health Care In The 2012 Budget: Looking Forward And Backward

Today, President Barack Obama released his Annual Budget, which emphasizes the Administration’s vision for moving forward by out-innovating, out-educating and out-building out of a recession. The President proposes a freeze on non-security discretionary...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2011 2:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Chronic Care, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Pharma

Media Partnership: State Healthcare IT Connect Summit

Whatever the Affordable Care Act’s fate in the Supreme Court, Medicaid will continue to be of great importance to states and will continue to consume large portions of their budgets. Modernizing state Medicaid programs will be a key focus of the...

Published Wed, May 30 2012 11:42 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health IT, States, Medicaid, Innovation

Medicare ACOs: Mixed Initial Results And Cautious Optimism

Editor's note: For more from David Muhlestein on the accountable care organization landscape, see his recent post " Accountable Care Growth In 2014: A Look Ahead ." Active followers of health policy have eagerly awaited the outcome of the...

Published Tue, Feb 04 2014 4:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid

The Seattle ‘God Committee’: A Cautionary Tale

As uncomfortable as it is for many Americans to accept, allocation issues are a permanent feature of our health care system, “reformed” or not. Who should get the H1N1 flu vaccine first? In a flu pandemic or a biological disaster, who should be put on...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 1:56 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Access, Bioethics, Hospitals, Innovation, Technology

Cadillacs Or Ambulances? The Senate Tax On ‘Excessive’ Benefits

Editor’s Note: For more on the controversy over taxing high-cost health plans, see “Taxing Cadillac Health Plans May Produce Chevy Results,” a Health Affairs Web First article by Jon Gabel and coauthors published today. The Senate “Patient...

Published Thu, Dec 03 2009 12:50 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Health Law

Little-Noted Provision On Agents And Brokers Could Mean Big Changes For Exchanges

There has been little attention paid to a game-changing decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in its March 2012 health insurance exchange final rule. Yet, this small addition has the potential to drive big changes in the exchange...

Published Fri, Jun 08 2012 8:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Health Care Transparency Ecosystem: Challenges Adapting To The Sunshine Act

New “Sunshine Provisions” in the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act add federal requirements to a variety of obligations under state laws that regulate drug and device manufacturers’ marketing to healthcare providers....

Published Wed, Jun 13 2012 7:33 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Pharma

HA Web First: Improved Prescribing And Reimbursement Practices In China

Pay-for-performance—reimbursing health care providers based on the results they achieved with their patients as a way to improve quality and efficiency—has become a major component of health reforms in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other...

Published Wed, Feb 26 2014 1:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, Global Health, Quality

Most-Read HA Blog Posts For May And April

Diane Meier’s discussion of the barriers to palliative care and how we might overcome those barriers tops the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for May. As an example of how the system should work but too often doesn’t, Meier cites...

Published Fri, Jun 22 2012 9:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Spending, Health Law, End-of-Life Care

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