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Using Travel As A Teaching Tool, And A Lever For Change

Foundations seeking to drive systems change in health care have a powerful method they can use to educate health system leaders. The Nicholson Foundation has found that sponsoring out-of-state, or even out-of-country, learning trips is an especially effective...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2016 7:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Quality, Medicaid, Innovation, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Effectiveness, Health Care Delivery, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, ACO, Telemedicine, Federally Qualified Health Center, New Jersey, Project ECHO
Reducing Health Care Costs Through Early Intervention On Mental Illnesses

This month’s edition of Health Affairs features an article focusing on patients with high mental health costs — and how they incur 30 percent more costs than other high-cost patients. This research helps to make the increasingly compelling case...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2016 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Mental Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, chronic disease, Congress
Put The ‘Network’ In Measures Of Network Adequacy

According to the Urban Institute more than 11 million people were enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace health plans in 2015. While enrollment numbers tell us how many people are covered, they do not necessarily tell us whether all 11 million...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, CMS, narrow networks, NPRM, network adequacy
Discovering New Medicines And New Ways To Pay For Them

While the rest of the health care system is moving toward paying for value, payments for drugs largely continue to be stuck in a 20th century construct that focuses on price, regardless of the health outcomes of each patient. This lack of payment innovation...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2016 10:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Featured, Health Policy Lab, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, regulation, Research and Development, drug pricing, value-based payment
Using The Intensive Outpatient Care Program To Lower Costs And Improve Care For High-Cost Patients

Improving care for patients with chronic diseases has long been a priority for both public and private sector purchasers of health care. A robust body of literature demonstrates that a significant proportion of health expenditures are concentrated among...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2016 5:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Innovations in Care Delivery, Population Health, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, culture of health, out-patient care, High-Cost Patients
Reexamining Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research And Treatment Policy

In recent months, two developments have provided some degree of optimism to people with the illness variously called chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis (“inflammation of the brain and central nervous system, with muscle pain”), CFS/ME...

Published Thu, Feb 04 2016 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Hospitals, Research, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, NIH, PACE trial, chronic fatigue syndrome
At Last: The Data To Routinely Discuss Health Spending By Medical Condition

In a paper from the January 2015 issue of Health Affairs , Abe Dunn and colleagues from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) introduce readers to their innovative new Health Care Satellite Account (HCSA) and use the data to provide insights about...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2016 9:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Care Satellite Account, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Health Affairs February Issue: Vaccines

The February issue of Health Affairs explores the current environment in which vaccines are discovered, produced, and delivered. The issue also contains several studies examining the economic benefits and value of sustainably financing vaccinations in...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2016 1:41 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, vaccines, Health Affairs journal
Can Health Care Investments Stimulate the Economy?

Editor’s Note: In addition to Dr. Leighton Ku (photo and bio above), the authors of this post include Dr. Peter Shin, an Associate Research Professor and Director of the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at the George Washington University...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 1:42 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicaid
New Health Wonk Review Is Up

It’s March Madness, and over at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s blog, “The Users’ Guide to the Health Reform Galaxy,” Minna Jung serves up the madness of both the basketball court and the health care reform process in...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 2:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog
Private-Payer Hospital Profits Can Lead To Negative Medicare Margins

In an article published March 18 by Health Affairs, researchers at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission challenge a common assumption about Medicare patients and hospital profit margins. The study finds that hospitals with strong market power lose...

Published Tue, Mar 23 2010 7:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Insurance, Medicare, Competition, Hospitals
The Privacy Conundrum And Genomic Research: Re-Identification And Other Concerns

No matter what the arena -- finance, health care, or national security -- questions surrounding the provision of personal data are always the same: how much benefit vs. how much risk? Who handles these data, and can those individuals be trusted? How do...

Published Wed, Sep 11 2013 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Bioethics, Health Law, Innovation, Technology, Science and Health, Research
Verifying Eligibility For Affordable Care Act Subsidies: Access To Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Editor's note: Matthew Buettgens coauthored this post with Stan Dorn. Considerable attention has focused on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) one-year suspension of employer penalties and reporting requirements under the Patient...

Published Mon, Sep 16 2013 8:23 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States
Patient Experience Will Drive A Renewal Of Professionalism

The conventional wisdom among many of my closest physician colleagues is that the current surge in interest in measuring “patient experience” is a bit of a fad, and that the measures are not always central to the real work of improving patient care. My...

Published Wed, Sep 18 2013 9:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Quality, Hospitals, Technology
Takeaways From Our Twitter Chat With PCORI

Recently, we at Health Affairs hosted a Twitter chat with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) on the topic of patients’ use of evidence. The chat was a follow-up to the Health Affairs issue, “ Patients’ and Consumers’...

Published Mon, Jun 20 2016 12:28 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Comparative Effectiveness, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, PCORI, patients, patient use of evidence

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Using Travel As A Teaching Tool, And A Lever For Change

Reducing Health Care Costs Through Early Intervention On Mental Illnesses

Put The ‘Network’ In Measures Of Network Adequacy

Discovering New Medicines And New Ways To Pay For Them

Using The Intensive Outpatient Care Program To Lower Costs And Improve Care For High-Cost Patients

Reexamining Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research And Treatment Policy

At Last: The Data To Routinely Discuss Health Spending By Medical Condition

Health Affairs February Issue: Vaccines

Can Health Care Investments Stimulate the Economy?

New Health Wonk Review Is Up

Private-Payer Hospital Profits Can Lead To Negative Medicare Margins

The Privacy Conundrum And Genomic Research: Re-Identification And Other Concerns

Verifying Eligibility For Affordable Care Act Subsidies: Access To Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Patient Experience Will Drive A Renewal Of Professionalism

Takeaways From Our Twitter Chat With PCORI