Health Affairs

Social Insurance Is Missing A Piece: Medicare, Medicaid, And Long-term Care

Editor’s note: This is the first of several periodic posts stemming from presentations to be given at “ The Law of Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty ,” a conference that will be held at Yale Law School on November 6 and 7 . The issues covered in this post...

Published Thu, Nov 06 2014 10:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Public Opinion, Medicare, Medicaid, Long-Term Care

Implementing Health Reform: Supreme Court Will Review Tax Credits In Federal Exchanges

On November 7, 2014, the Supreme Court granted certiorari (review) in King v. Burwell , one of the cases involving the question of whether federally-facilitated marketplaces can grant premium tax credits. The Fourth Circuit in King had upheld the Internal...

Published Fri, Nov 07 2014 12:54 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: New HHS 2015 Marketplace Enrollment Estimates

On November 10, 2014, the HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released an estimate of “ How Many Individuals Might Have Marketplace Coverage After the 2015 Open Enrollment Period .” ASPE estimates that 9.1 to 9.9 million will be...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2014 11:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

High Quality, Affordable Care: Making The Case For Smarter Networks

Narrow networks are one means health insurance plans have used to mitigate increases in health insurance premiums. These networks have become more prevalent since the expansion of coverage brought about by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But these narrow...

Published Thu, Nov 13 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Coverage, Quality

GDP+0: Prospects And Challenges Of Bending The Health Care Cost Curve

Editor's note: In addition to Kenneth Kaufman and Charles Roehrig (photos and linked bios above), this post is coauthored by Paul Hughes-Cromwick, a health economist and Senior Analyst at Altarum Institute and Charles Kim, a Senior Vice President...

Published Tue, Oct 16 2012 12:32 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Innovation

Narrative Matters: Reporting Child Abuse

In the newest Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, a seventeen-year-old West African immigrant who’s off to college says her facial bruising was inflicted by her father, and a young pediatrician learns about — and rethinks — the process...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2011 9:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Bioethics, Children

Children’s Health: Health Affairs’ December Issue

The December issue of Health Affairs includes a number of studies examining current threats to the health and health care of America’s children, and what can be done to meet their needs within an ever-evolving health care system. Some of the subjects...

Published Mon, Dec 08 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Policy, Insurance, Spending, Medicaid, Children

CMS Proposes Coverage With Evidence Development For Lung Cancer Screening With Low Dose CT

On November 11, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Proposed Decision Memo for Screening Lung Cancer with Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT), which is expected to be finalized in mid-December. Despite a negative assessment...

Published Tue, Dec 09 2014 8:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Chronic Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Science and Health, Research

Should Doctors Deny Ebola Patients CPR?

The first time I did CPR, coagulated blood spurted onto my new white coat from a wound in the patient’s chest. Another time a patient’s urine soaked through the knees of my pants as I knelt at his side. Even in the best of conditions, cardiopulmonary...

Published Thu, Dec 11 2014 5:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Physicians, Workforce, Global Health

Why I Oppose Payment Reform

I recently gave the keynote address at the New York State Health Foundation Conference “Payment Reform: Expanding the Playing Field.” This blog post is adapted from those remarks (you can watch the half-hour speech beginning around the eight-minute mark...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality, Hospitals, Innovation, Health Care Delivery, Once In A Weil

Investing In The Health And Well-Being Of Young Adults

Young adulthood -- ages approximately 18 to 26 -- is a critical time in life. What happens during these years has profound and long-lasting implications for young adults, and -- because many are parents -- for the next generation. Healthy, productive...

Published Mon, Dec 15 2014 12:15 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Coverage, Access, Quality, Effectiveness, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Research

Shared Decision Making And The Use Of Patient Decision Aids

More than 30 years ago, a Reagan-era Presidential Commission urged the national adoption of “shared decision making” (SDM) as a way to improve communication and informed consent in health care . Since then, many patient decision aids (PDAs) have been...

Published Wed, Dec 17 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Quality, Health Care Delivery

PCORI’s Problem: Reasons Are Not Causes

Editor's note: In another Health Affairs Blog post also published today, Joe Selby, the executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, responds to David Introcaso's post below. For more on the concept of patient centeredness...

Published Mon, Nov 05 2012 11:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Physicians, Comparative Effectiveness, Science and Health, Research

The Impact Of The 2012 Election On Health Systems And Providers

Editor's note: For more on what yesterday's election means for health policy, see Tim Jost's post published earlier today on Health Affairs Blog. With the election season now (blessedly) behind us, and the endless barrage of campaign ads now...

Published Wed, Nov 07 2012 1:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Quality, Medicaid

Election Post Leads HA Blog Top Ten For November

Tim Jost's look at the 2012 election and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in its aftermath tops the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for November. Jost's piece is joined on the list by election-related posts by Chas Roades...

Published Tue, Dec 04 2012 11:33 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Blog, Policy, Politics, Payment, Health IT, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness

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