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Integrating Specialty Care Into Accountable Care Organizations: Perspectives From The Field

Integrating specialty care can be key for high performance and financial success for ACOs, as the most complicated and costly patient care usually is managed by specialists. A large portion of the cost in our health care system is driven by specialists...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2016 6:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Innovations in Care Delivery, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Accountable Care Organizations, Health Professionals, ACOs, healthcare leaders, specialty care

Abortion Coverage And Health Reform: Bringing Evidence To Bear

Editor’s Note: In addition to Kathryn Phillips and Daniel Grossman (pictures and bios above), coauthors of this article include Tracy Weitz, the Director of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program and Assistant Professor...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 9:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Health Law

Mortality Gains Unlikely Until Next Stage Of Meaningful Use EHR Requirements

The federal government is currently offering bonus payments through Medicare and Medicaid to hospitals, physicians, and other eligible health professionals who meet new standards for “meaningful use” of health information technology. Whether these incentives...

Published Fri, Sep 16 2011 12:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health IT, Quality

Video Of HA Patient Engagement Briefing Is Available

If you are looking for something to watch over the long weekend and missed the recent Health Affairs briefing on our February issue, " New Era Of Patient Engagement ," video and speaker materials from the event are available on the Health Affairs...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2013 11:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Quality

How Medicare Advantage Plans Can Thrive In A Winner-Take-All Market

For the past few years, U.S. health plans that cover Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have been struggling to hold out against a string of reimbursement cuts. Now, as these rate cuts finally begin to stabilize, plans are faced with a new challenge...

Published Thu, Jun 04 2015 9:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Medicare Advantage, Star ratings, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Serious Risks And Few New Benefits From FDA-Approved Drugs

Over the past year, the U.S. Senate and The New York Times have been investigating the failure of the nation’s auto safety regulators to protect citizens from cars with occasionally dangerous faulty devices. But neither august institution has paid attention...

Published Mon, Jul 06 2015 9:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Patient Safety, Health Policy Lab, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, FDA, adverse drug events, hospitalizations, prescriptions

Court Rejects Challenge By Secular Entity To ACA Contraceptive Coverage Requirement

Implementing Health Reform. On December 10, 2015, Judge John Jones III of the federal district court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania decided yet another contraceptive coverage case . Unlike the dozens of challenges to the Affordable Care Act contraceptive...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2015 11:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Population Health, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, Pennsylvania, contraceptive mandate, Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Supreme Court To Review Contraceptive Coverage Accommodation For Religious Groups

Implementing Health Reform. On November 6, 2015, the Supreme Court agreed to review the accommodation that the government has offered nonprofit religious organizations to excuse them from complying with a regulatory requirement that they provide contraceptive...

Published Fri, Nov 06 2015 5:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, ACA litigation, contraceptive coverage, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, First Amendment, church plans, Preventive Services Mandate

As Patients Take On More Costs, Will Providers Shoulder The Burden?

Despite the uncertainty about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and any replacement, in the coming years, more Americans will almost surely find themselves in health plans with considerable patient cost sharing at the point of service (for example...

Published Thu, May 04 2017 7:31 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, cost sharing, high-deductible plans, medical debt

How Specialty Societies And Patient Advocacy Groups Can Advance Comparative Effectiveness Research

Editor’s note. In addition to Norman Kahn and John Rother (photos and bios above), this post is coauthored by Timothy Lynch, JD, Director of Foundation Programs for the ABIM Foundation; David Hoyt, MD, Executive Director of the American College...

Published Wed, Dec 07 2011 7:31 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Physicians, Health IT, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness

December HA Issue Features Rx Drug Studies

Federal rules and regulations related to transparency of prescription drug studies and prohibitions on off-label marketing are the focus of papers in the December 2011 issue of Health Affairs. In addition, a separate study examines the effect of prior...

Published Thu, Dec 08 2011 1:17 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Pharma

HA Blog Bundled Payment Post In Health Wonk Review

At his blog Wright On Health, Brad Wright posted a holiday shopping edition of the Health Wonk Review yesterday. Brad includes Emma Dolan’s Health Affairs Blog post, “Implementing Bundled Payment: No Pain, No Gain?” Dolan describes the...

Published Fri, Dec 09 2011 10:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Innovation

Examining Public Reporting On Quality And Cost

Public reporting of providers’ performance has been a key development over the past decade in efforts to improve the quality of health care and lower its cost. It’s been widely assumed that by making this data public, underperforming providers will be...

Published Thu, Mar 08 2012 7:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Quality, Hospitals

A Victory For Health Reform And Good Law

Editor’s Note: Yesterday, a federal District Court judge in Michigan rejected a constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Below, Timothy Jost of the Washington and Lee University School of Law discusses the court’s decision. In...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 6:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Coverage, Health Law

Unpacking The Senate’s Take On ACA Repeal And Replace

On June 22, 2017, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the Senate GOP’s version of Affordable Care Act repeal, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 . The Senate bill is in many respects quite different from the House’s American...

Published Thu, Jun 22 2017 7:05 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP

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