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Request For Abstracts: Delivery System Innovation

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue in March 2017 that will provide a broad look at delivery system innovation . We plan to publish about 20 peer-reviewed articles including research, systematic reviews, well-designed case studies, analyses, and...

Published Mon, Jun 13 2016 1:00 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, request for abstracts, delivery system innovation

ACA Round-Up: Risk Corridor Suit Dismissed As Premature; Supreme Court Ends Challenge To ‘Administrative Fix’

On April 18, 2017, federal court of claims judge Lydia Griggsby dismissed a risk corridor lawsuit brought by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC). The case was one of approximately two dozen lawsuits now pending in the federal court of...

Published Wed, Apr 19 2017 11:40 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, risk corridors, West Virginia v. the Department of Health and Human Services

Health Affairs Web First: Medical Marijuana Laws Reduced The Number Of Medicaid Prescriptions

In the past twenty years, twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have passed some form of medical marijuana law. A new study , released today by Health Affairs as a Web First, studied nine clinical areas to find out if Medicaid enrollees in...

Published Wed, Apr 19 2017 1:08 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Web First, medical marijuana

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

Regulatory, Legal Uncertainties Are Barriers To Value-Based Agreements For Drugs

The past several years have seen an increasing number of new and innovative therapies entering the drug market. Many of these are precision medicines developed to treat a narrowly defined patient population, often with a previously unmet need. These treatments...

Published Fri, Nov 04 2016 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Precision Medicine, Drugs and Medical Innovation, Performance-based risk-sharing arrangements, value-based agreements

Obamacare, Trumpcare, And Your Mouth

In December, Health Affairs published a thematic issue on oral health , a first for the journal. With the timing of that issue and the presidential inauguration upon us, it is the perfect time to discuss Obamacare, Trumpcare, and your mouth. The Mouth...

Published Fri, Jan 13 2017 6:41 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Oral Health, Dental Care, Following the ACA, Medicaid and CHIP, Medicaid expansion, Essential Health Benefits, dental health, ACA repeal and replace

Cures Act Offers Tax-Favored Vehicle For Small Employers To Pay Premiums, And More

On December 7, Congress passed the 824-page 21st Century Cures Act and sent it on to the president for his promised signature. The Cures Act will undoubtedly bring about major changes in our health care system. But, other than raiding the Affordable Care...

Published Fri, Dec 09 2016 12:07 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, 21st Century Cures, health reimbursement arrangement

Medicare Part D’s Importance Extends Far Beyond The Drug Benefit It Provides

Editor’s note: To mark the 10 years since Medicare Part D enrollment began, Health Affairs invited Marsha Gold to reflect on the program and its impact. The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) expanded Medicare...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2016 11:33 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act, low income subsidies

Judge Rejects Early Appeal In House Challenge To Reimbursement Of ACA Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments

Implementing Health Reform. On October 19, 2015, Judge Rosemary Collyer of the federal district court for the District of Columbia denied the government’s request for an expedited appeal in House v. Burwell . This means that Judge Collyer is going to...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2015 12:18 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, House v. Burwell, cost-sharing reduction payments, Court of Appeals, risk corridor payments, premium tax credit

Marketplace Enrollment Down From Last Year Following Post-Trump Inauguration Drop-Off

Editor’s note: Last month, Health Affairs launched “Eye on Health Reform, a series of articles by Tim Jost on the health reform discussion and the debate over repealing, replacing, and repairing the Affordable Care Act. These articles appear...

Published Thu, Mar 16 2017 4:28 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, 21st Century Cures Act, open enrollment period, ACA Marketplaces

Health Affairs Web First: New ACA Coverage Enrollees Increased Prescription Use And Lowered Spending

While there is evidence that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) coverage expansion provisions have increased the number of Americans covered by health insurance, less information exists about how new enrollees, particularly those with chronic health conditions...

Published Wed, Aug 17 2016 1:35 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Web First, chronic conditions, Health Affairs journal

Taming Health Care Spending: Could State Rate Setting Work?

For more than three and a half decades health care expenditures in the United States have grown at a much higher rate than those in other wealthy nations. Although this trend has moderated in recent years, most observers believe that expenditures, which...

Published Mon, Mar 20 2017 8:27 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Policy Lab, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicare DRG program, national health expenditures, Vermont all-payer ACO System, Resource-based relative value scale, rate regulation

The Medicare ACO Proposed Rule: Legal Structure, Governance, And Regulatory Sections

Editor’s Note: This post, by Douglas Hastings, is part of a series of Health Affairs Blog posts examining the proposed rule implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program, issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Hastings’...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2011 8:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Medicare, Competition, Health Law

HA Blog Health IT Posts Highlighted In Wonk Review

Over at the Healthcare Economist, Jason Shafrin presents an opening day edition of the Health Wonk Review. Among the health policy blog posts Jason presents: Health Affairs Blog pieces by Mark Frisse and Carol Diamond on the state of the health information...

Published Fri, Apr 01 2011 6:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Blog, Health IT

Mostashari And More Health IT In Health Affairs

One of the biggest challenges to realizing the full benefits of electronic health records (EHRs) has been moving their adoption beyond large integrated systems to safety net providers and physicians in small and solo practices. The new National Coordinator...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2011 2:37 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Medicare, Medicaid

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