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Health Affairs Forum: The Future Of The Individual And Small Group Markets

The Affordable Care Act included provisions for online health insurance exchanges where individuals and small employers can shop for health insurance coverage and determine if they are eligible for tax credits and other subsidies. State and federal marketplaces...

Published Mon, May 09 2016 1:00 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Health Affairs events, SHOP marketplace, SHOP enrollment

Addressing Price Variation In Massachusetts

Massachusetts has been a national leader in ensuring access to high quality coverage and health care and, with the passage of Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012, the Commonwealth took steps to lead the nation in slowing the growth of health care costs. Those...

Published Thu, May 12 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, reference pricing, Massachusetts, price variation

The Innovative Potential Of Venture-Backed Primary Care

There is an urgent need for innovation in primary care delivery — inadequate access for patients, poor care coordination, and a broken reimbursement system are well-documented challenges facing the field. Despite promising efforts and important...

Published Mon, May 16 2016 8:15 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Primary Care, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Iora Health, Qliance Medical Management, One Medical Group, venture capitalism

The Untreated Epidemic Of Medical Student Depression

According to a new meta-analysis spanning four decades of research, 28 percent of medical students are depressed and 5.8 percent have considered suicide. Researchers from Singapore analyzed 77 studies, examining nearly 63,000 medical students across the...

Published Tue, May 17 2016 12:30 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Mental Health, Population Health, Featured, Health Professionals, Graduate medical education, Behavioral Health, depression, medical school, counseling

Patient-Driven Research Will Lead To Better Health

The role of patients in health research is changing dramatically. Once considered simply study “subjects,” today patients play a meaningful and critical role in research. Such involvement ensures study results are more useful to them as well as others...

Published Thu, May 19 2016 11:15 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Health Professionals, FDA, 21st Century Cures Act, PCORI, patient use of evidence, patient-centered outcomes research

Integrating Health Care And Housing To Promote Healthy Aging

One of the most important public health findings over the last several decades has been that there are a number of factors, beyond medical care, which influence health status and contribute to premature mortality. Of these factors, social circumstances...

Published Mon, May 23 2016 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Medicare, Quality, Aging, Population Health, Costs and Spending, Long-term Services and Supports, New York, MACRA, Housing, seniors, falls prevention, money follows the person

New Health Policy Brief: Uninsurance Rates And The Affordable Care Act

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation considers how uninsurance rates are changing under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was implemented to decrease the number of Americans lacking health insurance. Four government...

Published Tue, May 24 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, ACA, uninsurance

Knowledge Is Power: Improving Health Care Information For The Most Vulnerable

In health care, being an informed consumer is essential to promoting positive outcomes. Whether the issue is finding affordable care where prices vary widely , minimizing harm from medical errors, or just finding a provider, knowledge is power. Navigating...

Published Wed, May 25 2016 3:26 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Consumers, Global Health, Quality, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Featured, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, caregivers, pharmacists, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, health information, Spanis-speakers

CMMI’s New Comprehensive Primary Care Plus: Its Promise And Missed Opportunities

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI, or “the Innovation Center”) recently announced an initiative called Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+). It evolved from the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, which began in 2012 and...

Published Tue, May 31 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Quality, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, CMMI, ACOs, Alternative Payment Models, PCMHs, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

‘Value Creation’ And ‘Value Shifting’ In Health Care

Corporate executives, the management consultants who advise them, and the financial industry executives who help corporations finance their capital investments tend to believe that whenever their joint work enhances the wealth of a firm’s shareholders...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Population Health, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, Sovaldi, Big Pharma, economics, Turing Pharmaceuticals, drug pricing, Valeant Pharmaceuticals

Making The Business Case For Investing In Community Health

In recent years, many businesses have put a premium on improving employee health—often through investments in workplace wellness programs, onsite clinics , or the availability of fruit and vegetables on the premises. Ostensibly, these programs are intended...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2016 1:48 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Population Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, health equity, Community Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, culture of health, AcademyHealth, Businesses

Health Affairs’ June Issue: Behavioral Health

The June issue of Health Affairs explores the topic of behavioral health, including racial and ethnic disparities in treatment, trends in financing of behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment, the portrayal of mental health issues in the...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2016 1:17 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Behavioral Health, Health Affairs journal

Yes, Providing Cancer Drugs In Multiple Vial Sizes Could Save Patients and Payers Money

On March 1, 2016, we published an article in the BMJ showing how in the US nearly $3 billion will be spent on discarded cancer drugs this year because companies package drugs in vials that contain too much of the drug for most doses, creating expensive...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2016 11:01 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Cancer

Obama Administration Acts To Stabilize Marketplaces, Implement Expatriate Coverage Legislation

On June 8, the federal departments tasked with implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) released a barrage of regulatory issuances, including fact sheets, guidances, a blog post, and a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). These issuances serve two...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2016 9:19 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, Essential Health Benefits, risk pools, minimum essential coverage, special enrollment periods, ACA Marketplaces, expatriate coverage

How Patient Groups Have Begun To Influence The Value And Coverage Debate

In 2015, two issues related to medicine could be relied on to generate headlines: drug pricing and the proliferation of new value frameworks that claimed to define the value and even the price of drugs in seemingly easy-to-understand ways. In none of...

Published Fri, Jun 10 2016 11:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, clinical research, patient use of evidence, venture philanthropy

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