Health Affairs

Turning Family Caregivers Into A Political Force

Suzanne Mintz’s memorable Narrative Matters essay in the September issue of Health Affairs calls for attention to and support for family caregivers, and puts many important policy and practice improvements on the policy table. But the piece stops just...

Published Wed, Oct 01 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Chronic Care, End-of-Life Care, Aging, Long-Term Care, Disabilities

The VA Post-Scandal: New Law And New Leadership

Editor's note: For more on this topic, see the Health Affairs Blog posts from Theodore Stefos and James Burgess and Jonathan Bush . In the wake of the recent scandals in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), new leadership was installed with former...

Published Thu, Oct 02 2014 11:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Health Affairs October Issue: Specialty Drugs — Cost, Impact, And Value

The October issue of Health Affairs , released today, includes a number of studies looking at the high costs associated with today’s increasingly prevalent specialty drugs. Other subjects covered in the issue: an assessment of whether some hospitals may...

Published Mon, Oct 06 2014 1:02 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Pharma, Hospitals, Biotech

Obesity Epidemic May Make Mortality Gains Short-Lived

For those who assume that the next generation of Americans will live longer than their parents, a new “three-dimensional” method of forecasting vital health statistics shows how this may not prove to be the case. Most Americans enjoy better health today...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2011 8:49 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Prevention, Chronic Care, Children, Obesity

The $500 Billion Medicare Slowdown: A Story About Part D

A great deal of analysis has been published on the causes of the health care spending slowdown system-wide -- including in the pages of Health Affairs . Much attention in particular has focused on the remarkable slowdown in Medicare spending over the...

Published Tue, Oct 21 2014 11:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals

Health Affairs Web First: Noneconomic Damage Caps Reduced Medical Malpractice Payments, With Varied Effects

With the 2014 election weeks away, a provision of California’s Proposition 46, raising the cap on medical malpractice payments for noneconomic damages, has been in the news. This provision would increase the payment cap from $250,000 to $1.1 million....

Published Wed, Oct 22 2014 1:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Malpractice Liability Reform, Physicians, Workforce, Health Law

Adult Conversation On High-Priced Drugs? Don’t Hold Your Breath (But Hang In There) …

The benevolent identity of the health care enterprise tends to moderate disagreements and keep them under a big tent of shared goals. In the case of very high prices for powerful new drugs, however, the commons gets stretched painfully thin. Drug companies...

Published Mon, Oct 27 2014 12:42 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Insurance, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Pharma, Biotech, Business of Health Care

Health Affairs Briefing: Collaborating For Community Health

Policymakers are paying increasing attention to the relationship between the characteristics of communities and the health of the people living in them. The November 2014 issue of Health Affairs , "Collaborating For Community Health , " examines...

Published Wed, Oct 29 2014 1:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Health Philanthropy

Learning From Missed Opportunities To Diagnose US Ebola Patient Zero

Over a century ago American physician Richard Cabot wrote about misdiagnoses, recognizing: “A goodly number of ‘classic’ time-honored mistakes in diagnosis are familiar to all experienced physicians because we make them again and again. Some of these...

Published Thu, Oct 30 2014 11:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Physicians, Health IT, Workforce, Hospitals, Health Care Delivery, Podcast

Meeting Quality Targets May Yield Only Modest Savings By Medicare ACOs

The Medicare Shared Savings Program, created under the Affordable Care Act, provides bonus payments to participating accountable care organizations (ACOs) that are successful in both lowering health costs in Medicare Parts A and B while meeting specified...

Published Fri, Oct 05 2012 7:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

New Health Policy Brief: Legal Challenges To The Affordable Care Act

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the issues inherent in the lawsuits filed by state governments, organizations, and private citizens challenging the Affordable Care Act. To date, about 30 legal...

Published Mon, Jul 11 2011 8:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Risk And Reform Of Long-Term Care

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts stemming from presentations given at “ The Law of Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty ,” a conference held at Yale Law School on November 6 and 7 . The 50 th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid...

Published Fri, Nov 14 2014 7:56 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Law, Long-Term Care

How Consumers Might Game The 90-Day Grace Period And What Can Be Done About It

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), individuals receiving a federal subsidy are entitled to a three-month premium nonpayment grace period . As long as such an individual has paid at least the first month’s premium of the year,...

Published Mon, Nov 17 2014 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Coverage, Health Law

Challenges For People With Disabilities Within The Health Care Safety Net

Medicare and Medicaid were passed to serve as safety nets for the country’s most vulnerable populations, a point that has been reemphasized by the expansion of the populations they serve, especially with regards to Medicaid. Yet, even after 50 years,...

Published Tue, Nov 18 2014 8:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Workforce, Access, Disparities, Health Law, Long-Term Care, Disabilities

The Case For Advancing Access To Health Coverage And Care For Immigrant Women And Families

Before the end of the year, the Obama administration is expected to announce that millions of undocumented immigrants will be able to lawfully stay in the United States. The new Congress may also take action on immigration reform legislation. Regardless...

Published Wed, Nov 19 2014 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Policy, Coverage, Access, Disparities

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