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New Health Affairs: Lung Cancer Screening Insurance Benefit Would Save Lives at Relatively Low Cost

Lung cancer screening would save thousands of lives at a relatively low cost if such tests were routinely covered by commercial insurers, according to a first-of-its-kind actuarial study in the April issue of Health Affairs. Lung cancer causes more than...

Published Mon, Apr 09 2012 1:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Health Care Costs, Spending, Effectiveness

Public Reporting Of Health Care Quality: Principles For Moving Forward

Several papers in the March issue of Health Affairs expose some of the challenges with reporting information about health care quality to the public, including the shortcomings of hospital reporting, the importance of framing quality information in ways...

Published Mon, Apr 09 2012 12:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Health IT, Quality, Patient Safety, Effectiveness

Health Affairs Blog Top 10 For March

Tim Jost’s analysis of the final rule on health insurance exchanges tops the most-read list for March for Health Affairs Blog. The Health Affairs article and follow-on blog post by Danny McCormick and colleagues on the effect of physicians’...

Published Thu, Apr 05 2012 10:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Prevention, Policy, Politics, Health IT

Health Affairs Now On iPad

Now you can explore the intersection of health, health care, and policy with Health Affairs on iPad. Download Health Affairs’ new mobile application for iPad to tap into a full interactive experience with Health Affairs content, including: Free...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2012 11:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog, Policy

Physician Specialty Groups Target Unnecessary Procedures

“It is well established now that one can in fact improve the quality of health care and reduce the costs at the same time.” That was the theme, enunciated by Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Susan Dentzer, of an event that Health Affairs cosponsored last...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2012 7:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Latest Wonk Review: From The Supreme Court To ‘Mad Men’

Over at the Health Business Blog, David Williams presents a great collection of health policy blogging in the most recent edition of the Health Wonk Review. The posts included range from discussions of last week’s Supreme Court arguments to historical...

Published Tue, Apr 03 2012 1:54 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Blog, Health Law

Health Affairs Briefing: Value In Cancer Care

On Thursday, April 12, Health Affairs will hold a briefing to unveil its April 2012 issue, “Issues In Cancer Care: Value, Costs & Quality.” The volume explores a range of cancer-related topics, with the centerpiece a cluster of articles on assessing...

Published Tue, Apr 03 2012 11:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Policy, Payment, Medicare, End-of-Life Care, Effectiveness

Strategic Reserve Stockpiling: A Proposal To Prevent Critical Drug Shortages

The increasing problem of drug shortages (see chart, click to enlarge) has received much recent attention, including a Presidential executive order moving to address the problem. A large number of drugs, including a number of agents ranging from electrolytes...

Published Tue, Apr 03 2012 10:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Health Care Costs, Pharma

Read Analysis Of The Supreme Court Health Reform Arguments On Health Affairs Blog

Last week the Supreme Court heard three days of oral arguments on the challenge by 26 states and several private plaintiffs to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, the plaintiffs argued that the ACA’s minimum coverage requirement...

Published Mon, Apr 02 2012 12:25 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicaid, Health Law

Wendy Mariner On Severability: Laser Surgery, Friends & Family, Or Blow It Up?

If the Supreme Court finds the individual mandate unconstitutional, will it strike down (sever) that provision alone, additional provisions regulating insurance, or the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA)? That was the question before the U.S. Supreme Court...

Published Fri, Mar 30 2012 8:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Timothy Jost On The Medicaid Coercion Debate: The Most Important Question Before The Court

Although the media and public have focused on the question of the constitutionality of the minimum coverage requirement, it is arguable that the most important question before the Court in the Affordable Care Act litigation is in fact the constitutionality...

Published Thu, Mar 29 2012 2:19 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, States, Medicaid, Health Law

Alice Noble And Mary Ann Chirba On Severability: Life Is A Highway

On Day Three of arguments about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court turned its attention to the question of severability. Should the Court find that the ACA’s minimum coverage requirement is indeed a proper exercise...

Published Thu, Mar 29 2012 9:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Medicare, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law, Children

Timothy Jost: The Arguments Over Severability Of The Minimum Coverage Requirement

The central issue in the Supreme Court Affordable Care Act (ACA) litigation is the constitutionality of the minimum coverage requirement (individual mandate). If the Court decides that the requirement is unconstitutional, it must next decide how much...

Published Thu, Mar 29 2012 8:07 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

William Sage On The Last Day Of Supreme Court Arguments: Enough Frivolity For A While

It’s finally over. After nearly six hours of oral argument over the course of three days, the two cases challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act have been officially submitted to the Justices for decision. Two separate issues were...

Published Thu, Mar 29 2012 7:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Politics, States, Workforce, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law

Renee Landers On The Individual Mandate: Towards A Single-Payer System Or Public Option?

Tuesday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court illustrated fundamental differences in attitudes about what Justice Kennedy described as “the relationship of the individual to the government”. Tr. 11. As Dahlia Lithwick points out, the arguments also...

Published Thu, Mar 29 2012 6:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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