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An ACA Navigator Massive Open Online Course: Using The Emerging U.S. Health Care System

Many observers claim that we do not have a true “healthcare system” in the United States. Instead we have fragmentation across multiple dimensions resulting in unsustainable cost increases, compromised quality, and growing inequity. Streams of public...

Published Fri, Aug 30 2013 8:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Public Opinion, States

Getting Transitions In Care Right: Two Agendas For Change

Big changes in health care make headlines. Except when they slip by unnoticed. A memorandum earlier this year from CMS’s Center for Clinical Standards and Quality/Survey & Certification Group to state survey agency directors fits this category. As...

Published Tue, Sep 03 2013 10:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid

Measuring Readmissions For Improvement, Accountability, And Patients

Kaiser Health News recently published a list of 2,225 hospitals that will be penalized through the second year of the federal government’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). The list indicated the percentage that the hospitals’ base Medicare...

Published Fri, Sep 06 2013 5:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Payment, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals

Tracking The Impact Of The Affordable Care Act In Kentucky

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) presents states with an opportunity to tailor the implementation of key health policy approaches intended to increase health insurance coverage and access to timely, high-quality care in a way that fits their populations...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2016 2:02 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Access, Quality, Disparities, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, health outcomes, Affordable Care Act, Kentucky

Health Affairs Patients’ Use Of Evidence Briefing Recap

On Thursday, April 7, 2016, Health Affairs commemorated the release of its April issue, “ Patients’ and Consumers’ Use of Evidence ,” at a forum in Washington, DC that featured authors from the issue discussing issues related to engaging patients...

Published Fri, Apr 08 2016 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, patient evidence, patient use of evidence

HHS Analyzes 2016 Marketplace Premiums As 2017 Proposals Come In

Insurers began filing their 2017 qualified health plan (QHP) proposals with the federally facilitated marketplace on April 11, 2016 and will continue to do so through May 11. QHP insurers must submit initial rate tables for 2017 to the Centers for Medicare...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2016 12:12 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, ASPE, qualified health plans, cost-sharing reduction payments, advanced premium tax credits

Health Affairs Web First: Significant Shifts Detected In Public Opinion About The ACA

Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law in 2010, Americans have remained deeply divided in their overall assessments of the law and whether it should continue. A new study , being released as a Web First by Health Affairs , compared public opinion...

Published Wed, Apr 13 2016 1:19 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, ACA, webfirst

Addressing Health In America To Build Wealth

Today, two of the primary focal points for many policy leaders include boosting individual income growth and, independently, reducing health care spending growth . None that we’re aware of, however, have identified and are considering policies that address...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2016 8:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, chronic disease, health economics, out-of-pocket health care costs, Chronic Condition

Designing Successful Bundled Payment Initiatives

Bundled payment initiatives are a growing form of value-based payment. The use of bundled payments can align reimbursement with the health care triple aim of improving experience of care, improving population health, and reducing total costs of care....

Published Wed, Apr 20 2016 8:10 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, triple aim, chronic disease, Bundled Payments, High-Cost Patients

Don’t Ease Resident Work Hour Restrictions

One evening in May, 1999, when I was an intern, I fell asleep at the wheel driving home from a 36-hour shift at the hospital. Drives like that occurred not infrequently in those days, and I had developed techniques to fight off fatigue. Singing at the...

Published Mon, Feb 27 2017 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Health Professionals, physicians perspective, general medical education, residents, resident work hours

The Future Of Precision Medicine: Great Promise, Significant Challenges

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Monday, January 23rd, 2017. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...

Published Tue, Feb 28 2017 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Research, Featured, Costs and Spending, 21st Century Cures Act, The Health Law Year in P/Review, Precision Medicine, cancer moonshot, cancerr

Health Affairs Briefing: Delivery System Innovation

In a constantly changing political and policy environment, innovative efforts to improve the quality and value of health care are proliferating. The impetus comes from many sources: leading health care systems seeking to improve their own performance;...

Published Thu, Mar 02 2017 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, events

All-Payer Claims Databases After Gobeille

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Monday, January 23rd, 2017. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2017 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Law, Costs and Spending, Supreme Court, The Health Law Year in P/Review, Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., ERISA, common data layout

R&D Costs For Pharmaceutical Companies Do Not Explain Elevated US Drug Prices

That pharmaceutical companies charge much more for their drugs in the United States than they do in other Western countries has contributed to public and political distrust of their pricing practices. When these higher US prices (which are sometimes cited...

Published Tue, Mar 07 2017 4:58 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Big Pharma, drug pricing, Drugs and Medical Innovation

Foundation Blogs Round-Up: Social Determinants Of Health, Kansas Medicaid, And More

Data Analytics In Health Care (And Baseball) “Bringing Moneyball to Medicine,” by Andy Bindman of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on the California Health Care Foundation’s blog, February 15. Bindman, who is now a professor of medicine...

Published Tue, Mar 07 2017 11:10 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Environmental Health, Social Determinants of Health, Medicaid and CHIP

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