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In Rural States Policy Changes To Improve Access To Home Dialysis Are Vital

By its very nature, chronic kidney disease can rob individuals of their independence. It gradually causes a person to lose the ability to filter wastes from the body, and should kidneys fail entirely, a patient must rely on renal replacement therapy Read...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2016 9:40 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Health IT, Quality, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, chronic disease, Telehealth, kidney disease, dialysis, rural health, nephrology
Medicare Help At Home

Nine million community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries—about one-fifth of all beneficiaries—have serious physical or cognitive limitations and require long-term services and supports (LTSS) that are not covered by Medicare . Nearly all have...

Published Wed, Apr 13 2016 7:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Palliative Care, Featured, Health Policy Lab, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, Long-term Services and Supports, ACOs, chronic conditions, Aging and Health, nursing homes, Medicare Help at Home
Creating A Culture Of Whole Health: A Realistic Framework For Advancing Behavioral Health And Primary Care Together

People present in wholes, not pieces. Despite this irrefutable scientific fact, our health care delivery system has reinforced a false notion that mental health is separate from physical health . We further this fragmentation, whether or not we realize...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2016 11:26 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment, Primary Care, Workforce, Access, Technology, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Mental Health, Health Care Delivery, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, costs, Health Professionals, Behavioral Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, culture of health, integrated care
To Identify Patients For Care Management Interventions, Look Beyond Big Data

Five percent of patients incur nearly 50 percent of United States’ health care costs, and there is growing evidence that investing resources in these individuals can improve care while decreasing costs . In kind, provider organizations are increasingly...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Quality, Big Data, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, super-utilizers, Health Professionals, chronic disease, Hospital readmissions, coordinated care, physician perspective, patient use of evidence
Make The Clinician Burnout Epidemic A National Priority

The health care workforce burnout epidemic is a national crisis. The time to act like it is now. Despite the promise of delivery system reform, especially following passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the risk of burnout among physicians (and other...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2016 7:27 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Quality, Hospitals, Organization and Delivery, Health Professionals, triple aim, EHRs, physician perspective, doctor burnout
An International Trend Toward Self-Directed Care

Critics of consumer-directed health care often argue that patients are not knowledgeable enough and the market is not transparent enough for consumerism to work in health care. But a study by The Commonwealth Fund says there is an international trend...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 7:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Chronic Care, States, Medicaid
Implementing Health Reform: Political And Legal Battles, Data Security, And More

The week of September 16, 2013, has been quiet on the Affordable Care Act regulatory front. Most of the noise has emanated from Capital Hill, where the House of Representatives seems poised to enact legislation that would “defund Obamacare” as part of...

Published Fri, Sep 20 2013 5:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Politics, Malpractice Liability Reform, Health Law
As Open Enrollment Nears, A Health Affairs Conversation With Alan Weil

In a new Health Affairs Conversations podcast , Alan Weil, the executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, discusses the impending opening of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces. In a wide-ranging discussion...

Published Tue, Sep 24 2013 1:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States, Spending, Coverage, Medicaid, Podcast
Low-Income Consumers’ Lack Of Financial Literacy Could Impede Use Of ACA Coverage, Subsidies

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many low income consumers will become eligible for government support to buy health insurance. Whether these consumers are able to take advantage of the support and make sound decisions about purchasing health insurance...

Published Thu, Sep 26 2013 8:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Coverage, Disparities
Health Affairs Briefing: Economic Trends And Quality Trade-Offs

Please join Health Affairs Founding Editor John Iglehart on Tuesday, October 8, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for a Health Affairs briefing at which we will unveil the October 2013 thematic, "Economic Trends And Quality Trade-offs...

Published Fri, Sep 27 2013 10:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Aging, Research
Healthy Indiana 2.0 Is Challenging Medicaid Norms

Last year, the State of Indiana launched the latest version of the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), made possible through a series of Medicaid waivers sought by Governor Mike Pence and approved by the Obama Administration. As a result, “HIP 2.0” made it possible...

Published Mon, Aug 29 2016 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Indiana, high deductible health plans, Healthy Indiana Plan, Mike Pence, war on poverty
The Proposed 2018 Notice Of Benefit And Payment Parameters: Part 1

On August 29, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its proposed 2018 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters .The proposed rule was accompanied by a fact sheet and CMS blog post . CMS also released on August 29 a draft actuarial...

Published Tue, Aug 30 2016 12:16 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Following the ACA, benefit and payment parameters
Keeping A Finger On The PULSE Of Blood Donation Policy After Orlando

On June 12, 2016, a gunman murdered 49 people at PULSE, a Florida LGBT nightclub, in the most lethal mass shooting in U.S. history. Many more were critically injured, requiring blood transfusions and exacerbating the need for blood donors in the Orlando...

Published Thu, Sep 01 2016 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Featured, Equity and Disparities, FDA, HIV/AIDS, blood donations, DONATE Act, LGBT
Mylan’s CEO A Villain? Depends On Your Preferred Brand Of Capitalism

The headline in a New York Times article on Heather Bresch, the CEO of drugmaker Mylan Inc., reads: “ Painted as EpiPen Villain, Mylan’s Chief Says She’s No Such Thing .” EpiPen is an auto-injector for a drug called epinephrine for potentially fatal allergic...

Published Tue, Sep 06 2016 10:26 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, capitalism, EpiPen, Mylan
Embracing The Role Of Family Caregivers In The U.S. Health System

One of the clear trends emerging from U.S. health reform is the transition from a provider and procedure focused system to one that puts the patient at the center of care. “ Patient-centered care ” is defined as “providing care that is respectful of,...

Published Thu, Sep 08 2016 8:20 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, End-of-Life Care, Aging, Population Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, Long-term Services and Supports, End-of-Life, caregivers, Caregiving

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In Rural States Policy Changes To Improve Access To Home Dialysis Are Vital

Medicare Help At Home

Creating A Culture Of Whole Health: A Realistic Framework For Advancing Behavioral Health And Primary Care Together

To Identify Patients For Care Management Interventions, Look Beyond Big Data

Make The Clinician Burnout Epidemic A National Priority

An International Trend Toward Self-Directed Care

Implementing Health Reform: Political And Legal Battles, Data Security, And More

As Open Enrollment Nears, A Health Affairs Conversation With Alan Weil

Low-Income Consumers’ Lack Of Financial Literacy Could Impede Use Of ACA Coverage, Subsidies

Health Affairs Briefing: Economic Trends And Quality Trade-Offs

Healthy Indiana 2.0 Is Challenging Medicaid Norms

The Proposed 2018 Notice Of Benefit And Payment Parameters: Part 1

Keeping A Finger On The PULSE Of Blood Donation Policy After Orlando

Mylan’s CEO A Villain? Depends On Your Preferred Brand Of Capitalism

Embracing The Role Of Family Caregivers In The U.S. Health System