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Health Affairs Briefing: New Directions In Systems Innovation

On July 7, 2011, Health Affairs will unveil its July 2011 issue, “New Directions In Systems Innovations.” The issue explores ongoing innovations in health care organization, delivery and financing across a broad front – from Vermont’s...

Published Mon, Jun 27 2011 7:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, States, Coverage, Hospitals, Innovation, Aging

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

Request For Abstracts: Health Affairs Theme Issue On Vaccines

Health Affairs is planning a thematic issue on global progress and remaining challenges in achieving the goals of the Decade of Vaccines, the international effort to expand vaccine coverage to all children by 2020. The decade mid-point provides an opportune...

Published Fri, May 22 2015 10:56 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Coverage, Global Health, Children, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Featured, vaccines, Immunization, Decade of Vaccines

Health Affairs Web First: Without CHIP, Sharply Higher Insurance Costs For Many Low-Income Families

Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is now set to expire after September 2015. A new study , being released by Health Affairs as a Web First, and also appearing in its April issue, examines the availability and cost of dependent...

Published Thu, Mar 26 2015 6:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Children, Health Care Delivery, Business of Health Care

Patients Are The Sun: The Imperative For Consumer Engagement In Transforming Health Care

On January 15, Community Catalyst , a national consumer health advocacy organization, launched its Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. The event drew more than 150 leaders in health care...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2016 2:17 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Quality, Medicaid, Innovation, Aging, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, health equity

How Ideas From Private Industry Help Combat Medicare Fraud, Waste, And Abuse

It is increasingly well-known that improper payments cost taxpayers as much as $50 billion each year. These include reimbursements for billing for non-existent patients, falsified diagnoses, non-covered procedures, services not rendered or simply upcoded...

Published Thu, May 23 2013 6:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Competition, Technology

MACRA Final Rule: CMS Strikes A Balance; Will Docs Hang On?

On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Final Rule implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)—aka the “SGR” repeal bill, aka Medicare physician payment 3.0. The central theme...

Published Mon, Oct 17 2016 11:29 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Medicare, Quality, Featured, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, CMS, EHRs, MACRA, Alternative Payment Models, mips, MACRA final rule

Medicare Physician Payment: Why It’s Still A Problem, And What To Do Now

When the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) passed Congress in 2015, most people felt it was better than the old “Sustainable Growth Rate” (SGR) approach to setting physician Medicare fees that had been in place for more than a decade...

Published Fri, Jan 27 2017 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Medicare, Quality, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, MACRA

Moving AHRQ Into The NIH: New Beginning Or Beginning Of The End?

On March 16, President Trump released his administration’s blueprint for the discretionary portion of the 2018 federal budget . This document is the administration’s signal of its priorities to Congress which is responsible for passing a budget for the...

Published Mon, Mar 27 2017 7:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, AHRQ, NIH, health services research, 2018 budget

Health Policy Brief: Telehealth Parity Laws

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines telehealth parity laws in the United States. With 20 percent of Americans living in areas that have physician shortages, telehealth could help these underserved US...

Published Mon, Aug 15 2016 11:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Medicare, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, ACA, Health Policy Briefs, Telehealth, Affordable Care Act, chronic conditions

New Initiative Explores The Intersection Of Education And Mental Health

Some of the richest opportunities for improving educational outcomes may emerge from initiatives that prevent and address mental health issues in children. Interventions like the Good Behavior Game or the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management...

Published Tue, Aug 23 2016 1:50 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Children, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Mental Health, Health Care Delivery, Organization and Delivery, Equity and Disparities, Substance Use Prevention, education, schools, youth mental health

Place Matters: Making The United States The Healthiest Nation, Community By Community

Our health is affected by more than what happens in the doctor’s office. The factors that can make or break our health include the many societal conditions we face on a daily basis—determinants such as access to fresh foods, neighborhood walkability,...

Published Thu, May 19 2016 12:39 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Counties, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Equity and Disparities, cities, Smoking Prevention, Native Americans, food deserts, tribes

Diffusion Of Innovations In Health Care—Obtaining Evidence To Move Faster

We are living in an extraordinary time in health care. Amid unsustainable rising health care costs that did not deliver commensurate value or quality of care, a remarkable transformation in health care payment was put in motion over the past decade. A...

Published Tue, May 16 2017 6:52 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Population Health, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, ACOs, Patient-Centered Medical Home, Bundled Payments, behavioral economics, Alternative Payment Models, value-based payment, Diffusion of Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

The Anthem-Cigna Merger: A Post Mortem

Editor’s Note: Watch Health Affairs for the new issue release with a special focus on market concentration at 4 pm. On May 12, 2017, Anthem Inc. announced that it would no longer seek to acquire Cigna Corporation, putting an end to a two-year saga...

Published Tue, Sep 05 2017 5:39 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Innovation, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Cigna, Anthem, Collaborative Accountable Care

Narrative Matters: Drug Company Payments To Physicians

In the December Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, multiple sclerosis patient Maran Wolston describes how she lost trust in her physician when she found out he was receiving payments from drug companies. Wolston says she was fortunate to be able...

Published Tue, Dec 20 2011 9:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Physicians, Bioethics, Pharma, Personal Experience

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