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When Less Is More: Issues Of Overuse In Health Care

Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing Health Affairs Blog series on palliative care, health policy, and health reform. The series features essays adapted from and drawing on an upcoming volume, Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness...

Published Fri, Apr 25 2014 7:37 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Quality, Hospitals, End-of-Life Care, Aging, Long-Term Care, Effectiveness

Look Carefully: Medicare’s Provenge National Coverage Decision

Editor’s Note: The authors of the post below, Dan Mendelson and Tanisha Carino, also wrote an earlier post on the initial decision of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to undertake a national coverage review of the cancer drug Provenge...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2011 9:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Pharma, Technology, Effectiveness

Health Affairs Web Firsts: Provider Consolidation In Health Care

The clinical and economic virtues of provider consolidation have long been recognized by policy experts, but in recent years, research has shown that large provider organizations may use market power to obtain relatively high prices from payers without...

Published Mon, May 19 2014 10:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Competition, Quality, Hospitals, Cost, Health Law

Halbig And King: A Simple Case Of IRS Overreach

On March 25, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments in Halbig v. Sebelius , one of four lawsuits challenging the legality of implementing certain ACA provisions in the 34 states with federally established health insurance Exchanges...

Published Thu, May 22 2014 5:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Traditional Budgeting Fails To Account For The Changing Face Of America

The United States has been undergoing a major demographic shift over the past four decades, and by 2042, the various “minority” communities will in the aggregate make up the majority of our country. That has real implications not only for things like...

Published Fri, May 23 2014 7:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Chronic Care, Disparities, Obesity

Celebrating The End Of The HIV/AIDS Travel Ban

This year’s International AIDS Society (IAS) conference, taking place in the US for the first time after a 20-year boycott, has a special meaning to me. As an infectious diseases doctor, I provide primary care to HIV-positive patients. I first became...

Published Fri, Jul 20 2012 7:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Global Health, Health Law, AIDS, Science and Health

The End Of The Blockbuster? Implications For Pricing Of New Drugs

Editor's note: In addition to Elias Dayoub, Anupam Jena and Darius Lakdawalla also coauthored this post. The productivity slowdown in drug innovation has been identified and widely discussed in recent years. In addition, the stagnation in the number...

Published Mon, Jun 16 2014 12:45 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Pharma, Research

This Is Not Your Mother’s Payment Model: Reflections On The APM Pilot

Editor’s note: This post is part of a periodic Health Affairs Blog series, which will run over the next year, looking at payment and delivery reforms in Arkansas and Oregon. The posts will be based on evaluations of these reforms performed with the support...

Published Wed, Jun 18 2014 10:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care Costs

Implementing Health Reform: Employer Orientation Periods; Risk Corridor Payments

It has long been apparent to those of us who follow Affordable Care Act regulatory activity that the implementing agencies have a penchant for releasing rules on Friday afternoons in the 4:15 Federal Register post. True to form, at 4:15 on June 20, the...

Published Sat, Jun 21 2014 12:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Health Law

Health Affairs Web First: Shifting Open Enrollment Could Increase Participation

On November 15, state and federal health Marketplaces will open their portals and phone lines for the 2015 open enrollment season, which runs through next February 15. While the end of the year is traditionally “open season” for health insurance, a new...

Published Wed, Jun 25 2014 1:44 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: Exchange Eligibility Redeterminations; Small Employer Tax Credit

While it seems like the 2014 open enrollment period just ended, the 2015 open enrollment period, which begins on November 15, is in fact only four and a half months away. On June 26, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed...

Published Fri, Jun 27 2014 8:37 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Health Law

Ways And Means Chair: Panel Won’t Consider Ryan Medicare Plan

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) said this morning that his committee will not take up a proposal this year to replace Medicare’s defined benefits formula with a “voucher” or “premium support” system in which seniors would shop...

Published Thu, May 05 2011 1:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Innovation

How To Make Comparative Effectiveness Work

Comparative effectiveness research has been the target of recurrent criticism in some political circles, with opponents claiming it’s the “gateway to rationing” or it encourages “cookbook medicine.” But the conversation on Capitol Hill needs to evolve...

Published Tue, May 10 2011 6:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Comparative Effectiveness

Health Affairs Briefing: Payment Reform To Achieve Better Health Care

On Friday, September 7, Health Affairs will hold a briefing to unveil its September 2012 issue, “Payment Reform To Achieve Better Health Care.” The volume contains a thorough examination of the present state of and future challenges for payment...

Published Wed, Aug 22 2012 10:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: IRS Releases Premium Tax Credit Rules And Draft Forms

Although the focus of activity the week of July 21 was in the courts, the agencies were not totally silent. On July 24, 2014 the Internal Revenue Service released final and temporary and proposed regulations addressing issues that are presented by the...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2014 8:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

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