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Implementing Health Reform: GAO And ASPE Reports Reveal IRS-Marketplace Coordination Difficulties, Impact Of Competition On Premiums

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA): IRS Needs to Strengthen Oversight of Tax Provisions for Individuals , released July 29, 2015, is both one of the clearest and most succinct descriptions...

Published Thu, Jul 30 2015 12:40 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, APTC, IRS, Tim Jost, GAO report, Exchange Periodic Data, ASPE
Health Affairs’ August Issue: Hospital Quality And Care

The August issue of Health Affairs contains a cluster of articles focusing on hospital quality and care. Other subjects covered in this variety issue: ways state vaccine exemption laws affect disease outbreaks; how states with strong health insurance...

Published Mon, Aug 03 2015 3:27 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Mental Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, super-utilizers, pay-per-performance, vaccination laws, Health Affairs August Issue
Nurse Practitioners Can Increase Treatment Accessibility For Opioid Addiction

Rates of opioid and first time heroin use have reached epidemic proportions in many American cities. While it may come as a surprise, almost 10 percent of full-time U.S. workers 18-64 years are dependent on, or have abused illicit substances and alcohol...

Published Wed, Aug 05 2015 6:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Nurses, Substance Abuse, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, Long-term Services and Supports, nurse practitioners, TREAT Act, Opioid Addiction
Defeating The ZIP Code Health Paradigm: Data, Technology, And Collaboration Are Key

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series of blog posts by leaders in health and health care who participated in Spotlight Health from June 25-28, the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival . This year’s theme was Smart Solutions to the World...

Published Thu, Aug 06 2015 12:42 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Health IT, Technology, GrantWatch, Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Community Health, Aetna Foundation, smartphones, apps, mHealth, Garth Graham, ZIP code
Title X: The Lynchpin Of Publicly Funded Family Planning In The United States

The Title X national family planning program was created 45 years ago with broad bipartisan support. Today, Congress has Title X—still the only federal grant program dedicated entirely to family planning and related preventive health care—in...

Published Mon, Aug 10 2015 6:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, ACA, Long-term Services and Supports, Women's Health, family planning, Title X, Planned Parenthood
Implementing Health Reform: OIG Reports On 2014 FFM Performance; Risk Corridor Data Delayed

On August 10, 2015 yet another report was released evaluating the performance of the federally facilitated marketplace (FFM), this one from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG). The evaluation concerns the system...

Published Tue, Aug 11 2015 12:31 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Costs and Spending, CSR, APTC, federally facilitated marketplaces, risk corridor data, HHS Office of Inspector General, QHPs
Lean: A Comprehensive Approach To The Transformation Our Health Care System Needs

Many approaches to improving value in our health system focus on specific issues involving care delivery models such as optimizing primary care, coordinating care transitions, facilitating the care of the high need/high use patients, or reducing unnecessary...

Published Thu, Aug 13 2015 5:42 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Health Care Delivery, Innovations in Care Delivery, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, ACOs, CMS, Patient Engagement, Toyota, Lean
Accountable Care Organizations And Innovation: A Changing Landscape

As Accountable Care Organizations take the country by storm, too little attention is being paid to how the new incentive structure of ACOs is sharply altering the landscape of health care innovation. ACOs, even at this early stage, are changing the innovation...

Published Fri, Jun 28 2013 8:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Pharma, Quality, Innovation, Technology, Research
Implementing Health Reform: Turning Back An ‘Origination Clause’ Challenge To The ACA

On June 28, 2013, Judge Beryl Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a case brought by Matthew Sissel challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Sissel had originally filed his complaint...

Published Tue, Jul 02 2013 12:46 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Health Law
Implementing Health Reform: Final Rule On Premium Tax Credit, Medicaid, And CHIP Eligibility Determinations (Part 1)

On July 5, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services released a final rule to implement and coordinate certain Affordable Care Act’s provisions governing Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program and the health insurance exchanges. The...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2013 4:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Medicaid, Children
Audio Of Child Obesity Briefing Is Available

The March issue of Health Affairs, a thematic issue on child obesity supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was released at a March 2 briefing in Washington D.C. Audio, slides, and an agenda from the briefing are available on the Health Affairs...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 8:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Chronic Care, Children, Obesity
Narrative Matters: Poems On The Patient Experience And The Practice Of Medicine

Editor’s note: This spring, Health Affairs held its first ever poetry contest. Three winning poems were published in the journal . We’re also featuring some of our other favorites on the Blog throughout the month of October. Operating Room Report (or...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2015 11:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Narrative Matters, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, patients, Narrative Matters poetry, Cindy Potts, Micaela Mascialino, medicine
CMS Releases Technical Guidance For QRS And QHP Enrollee Experience Surveys

Implementing Health Reform. In late September 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Quality Rating System (QRS) and Quality Health Plan (QHP) Enrollee Experience Survey: Technical Guidance for 2016 as well as its 2016...

Published Fri, Oct 09 2015 11:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, open enrollment period, Implementing Health Reform, CMS rule, quality health plans, quality rating system, enrollee satisfaction
The New Era Of Narrow Networks: Do They Come At The Cost Of Quality?

As we approach another period of Open Enrollment under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is a good time to revisit whether plan offerings reflect consumer preferences. Are exchange participants getting a good value? In a recent survey, when asked to rank...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2015 11:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, California, Covered California, narrow networks, health care networks
We’d Be In The Dark Without AHRQ

Here at Health Affairs we take the policy relevance of our work very seriously. As the leading health policy journal in the country, with the highest impact factor in our field, we work assiduously to find, edit, and publish the best scholarship that...

Published Thu, Oct 15 2015 7:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Once In A Weil, Health Professionals, Alan Weil, AHRQ, health policy research, Surveys, policymakers

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Implementing Health Reform: GAO And ASPE Reports Reveal IRS-Marketplace Coordination Difficulties, Impact Of Competition On Premiums

Health Affairs’ August Issue: Hospital Quality And Care

Nurse Practitioners Can Increase Treatment Accessibility For Opioid Addiction

Defeating The ZIP Code Health Paradigm: Data, Technology, And Collaboration Are Key

Title X: The Lynchpin Of Publicly Funded Family Planning In The United States

Implementing Health Reform: OIG Reports On 2014 FFM Performance; Risk Corridor Data Delayed

Lean: A Comprehensive Approach To The Transformation Our Health Care System Needs

Accountable Care Organizations And Innovation: A Changing Landscape

Implementing Health Reform: Turning Back An ‘Origination Clause’ Challenge To The ACA

Implementing Health Reform: Final Rule On Premium Tax Credit, Medicaid, And CHIP Eligibility Determinations (Part 1)

Audio Of Child Obesity Briefing Is Available

Narrative Matters: Poems On The Patient Experience And The Practice Of Medicine

CMS Releases Technical Guidance For QRS And QHP Enrollee Experience Surveys

The New Era Of Narrow Networks: Do They Come At The Cost Of Quality?

We’d Be In The Dark Without AHRQ