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Health Affairs Sacramento Forum: Delivery System Innovation

The March 2017 edition of Health Affairs examines what we have learned about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to delivery system innovation. From leading health care systems seeking to improve their own performance; public and private payers...

Published Thu, Mar 09 2017 12:18 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs

For Rare Disease Patients, A Pathway To Hundreds Of New Therapies

Many rare disease patients use drugs off-label based on limited data because they have no better options available. In fact, it is estimated that 95 percent of rare diseases do not yet have a single FDA-approved treatment . One of the authors of this...

Published Tue, Mar 21 2017 8:46 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: off-label drugs, Drugs and Medical Innovation, off-label promotion, open act, orphan drugs

How Should We Measure The Distribution Of Health In A Population?

Population health has been defined as “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.” Measuring population health and its distribution can unite groups across sectors around a set of clear...

Published Fri, Mar 17 2017 7:53 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Population Health, Global Health Policy, population health metrics, population segmentation, Delphi Study, determinants of health

Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities And Challenges For PCORI

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is preparing to review its first round of pilot grant proposals and to release its research priorities in 2012. In an interview published in the December 2011 issue of Health Affairs, the institute...

Published Wed, Dec 07 2011 6:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Christiana Care: A Leadership Moment For Hospitals And Physicians

Editor’s Note: Robert Laskowski of Christiana Care Health System (photo and bio above) is a participant in today’s National Press Club briefing on meaningful use of health IT, cosponsored by Health Affairs and the Health Industry Forum at...

Published Thu, Aug 05 2010 9:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Health IT, Hospitals

Rising Individual Market Premiums: Two Competing Narratives

Anthem Blue Cross of California, the largest health insurance company in California, recently announced plans to increase insurance premiums by as much as 39 percent for people insured in their non-group health insurance plans. This dramatic and unprecedented...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 10:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Politics, Insurance

Implementing Health Reform: Funding Exchange Navigator Programs

On April 9, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services announced the availability of $54 million to fund navigator programs in states that have federally facilitated or partnership exchanges. This...

Published Wed, Apr 10 2013 3:09 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, States

The Medicare Trustees Report in Perspective

Last week’s annual report from the Medicare Trustees reflects small but noteworthy improvements in the financial outlook of part of the program. Annual growth in Medicare spending per beneficiary slowed to less than 1 percent last year, well below the...

Published Fri, Jun 07 2013 11:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals

Implementing Bundled Payment: No Pain, No Gain?

In a recent Health Affairs article, researchers from RAND and Harvard highlighted the difficulties associated with implementing bundled payment, based on an evaluation of the PROMETHEUS Payment program, an initiative of the Health Care Incentives Improvement...

Published Fri, Dec 02 2011 7:50 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

New Narrative Matters: A Mother’s Hope For A Natural Birth In A Cesarean Culture

Health Affairs ' January Narrative Matters essay features a physician and mother on giving birth in a culture that increasingly pushes women toward cesarean sections. Carla Keirns' article is freely available to all readers, or you can listen...

Published Fri, Jan 09 2015 6:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Personal Experience, Narrative Matters

Two Recipients Of ACA Cost-Sharing Subsidies Seek Voice In Litigation

On December 20, 2016, one day after Donald Trump was officially elected president of the United States but before he has actually taken office, two individuals filed the first of what are likely to be many lawsuits challenging actions of the Trump administration...

Published Tue, Dec 20 2016 1:51 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage

CMS Acts On Premium Payments By Dialysis Facilities, Special Enrollment Period Eligibility

Insurers that participate in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces have complained that that enrollment eligibility rules are being abused in ways that have increased the cost of marketplace coverage and destabilized the marketplace risk pools. On December...

Published Tue, Dec 13 2016 11:39 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, open enrollment, dialysis, special enrollment periods, end-stage renal disease

Reimagining The Consumer Role In Improving Value

In recent years it has been often repeated that we are on the verge of a new era of health care consumerism as “the role of the individual in healthcare is rapidly transforming from passive patient to active consumer ” and that “the shift is being...

Published Fri, Jun 10 2016 7:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, performance measures, quality of care, health care networks, quality measures, consumer choices

Parity ‘Warning Signs’ And An Employer Shared Responsibilty Estimator

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA), as amended by the Affordable Care Act, requires that group health plans and insurers in the group and individual markets ensure that financial requirements and treatment limitations on...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2016 1:02 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, employer coverage, mental health and substance use disorder parity

Abortion Restrictions Purporting To Protect Women Ignore The Heavy Toll Of Unwanted Pregnancy

In late April, the Oklahoma legislature passed a bill that would pull the medical licenses of physicians who provide abortions. Although the governor vetoed the bill in late May, this makes Oklahoma the first state (so far) to attempt to place abortion...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2016 7:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Mental Health, Population Health, Featured, Women's Health, Behavioral Health, family planning, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, Roe v. Wade

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