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Health Affairs Briefing Reminder: Still Crossing the Quality Chasm

In a briefing on Thursday, April 7, Health Affairs will convene national health leaders and policy experts to discuss the current state of quality in the U.S. health care system; the latest data on costs; challenges in measuring quality and quality improvement;...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2011 10:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Quality, Patient Safety

The Year Of The Family Caregiver — In What Country?

President Obama has begun his campaign for re-election in 2012. Several Republicans have declared their intention to consider the possibility of running. Meanwhile, implementation of health care reform proceeds slowly, with threats of defunding and legal...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 12:34 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Payment, Chronic Care, Aging

Where’s The Patient In The Patient-Centered Medical Home?

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has grabbed the limelight as a new model of health care that offers an alternative to fragmented, impersonal and wasteful care that has become the norm throughout much of the U.S. The PCMH model promises each patient...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 10:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Physicians, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality, Nurses

From The HA Blog Archives: The Debate Over Paul Ryan’s Proposals

Mitt Romney’s selection of House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate will focus even more attention on Ryan’s proposals to overhaul public health care programs. Ryan has advocated moving Medicare to a “premium...

Published Sat, Aug 11 2012 5:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid

Exhibit Of The Month: The Medicare Reimbursement Margin

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing “ Exhibit of the Month ” series. Readers who’d like to highlight other noteworthy exhibits from the same issue are encouraged to make their pitch in the comments section below. This month we look at three...

Published Mon, Jun 30 2014 8:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Medicare, Medicaid

New Drug And Device Approval: What Is Sufficient Evidence?

Editor's note: In addition to Jonathan Darrow, this post is also coauthored by Aaron Kesselheim. The federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to evaluate all prescription drugs and high-risk medical...

Published Tue, Jul 01 2014 1:27 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Chronic Care, Pharma, Quality, Effectiveness, Research

Taking Stock Of The ACA: The Latest Data From The Health Reform Monitoring Survey

Editor's note: In addition to Sharon Long, this post is coauthored by Genevieve Kenney, Stephen Zuckerman, and Katherine Hempstead. Since early last year, the Urban Institute’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) has been collecting relevant, timely...

Published Tue, Jul 29 2014 9:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Five Engagements That Will Define The Future Of Health

I recently had the pleasure of opening and moderating the first day of the 2014 Colorado Health Symposium, which had as its theme “Transforming Health: The Power of Engagement.” I found thinking about engagement, well, engaging, and in this post I summarize...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2014 7:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Once In A Weil

Implementing Health Reform: King Plaintiffs Ask For Supreme Court Review

On July 31, 2014, Michael Carvin, attorney for the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell , one of two parallel cases challenging an IRS rule allowing premium tax credits to be issued by federally facilitated exchange, filed a petition for a writ of certioriari...

Published Fri, Aug 01 2014 12:57 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Bundled Payment: Learning From Our Failures

Note: In addition to Tom Williams, Jill Yegian also coauthored this post. Seeing “IHA” and “Fails” together in the title of an article in the nation’s premier health policy journal was not an outcome that we anticipated when the bundled payment initiative...

Published Tue, Aug 05 2014 8:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Medicaid, Business of Health Care

Expanding Medicaid: The Smart Decision For Maryland

Editor’s note: The post below explains why Maryland has chosen to implement the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Watch Health Affairs Blog for an upcoming post explaining why South Carolina has decided not to implement the expansion...

Published Wed, Aug 29 2012 12:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Insurance, States, Spending, Coverage, Hospitals, Medicaid

Clinical Registries: The Opportunity For The Nation

In the early 1970s, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation began tracking the health of patients with cystic fibrosis. What began as a modest data collection effort is today a comprehensive clinical registry of 26,000 patients. Caregivers and researchers use...

Published Wed, May 11 2011 9:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness

Projected Slow Growth In 2013 Health Spending Ahead Of Future Increases

Insurance Coverage, Population Aging, and Economic Growth Are Main Drivers of Projected Future Health Spending Increases New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project a slow 3.6 percent...

Published Wed, Sep 03 2014 1:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

Health Affairs Event Reminder: Advancing Global Health Policy

Please join us on Monday, September 8, when Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will host a briefing to discuss our September 2014 thematic issue, "Advancing Global Health Policy." In an expansion of last year's theme, "The 'Triple...

Published Fri, Sep 05 2014 7:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Global Health

Improving Access To High Quality Hospice Care: What Is The Optimal Path?

Editor’s note: This post is part of a periodic 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 Tue, Sep 09 2014 5:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Access, Palliative Care

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