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After Insurer Complaints, Small Steps To Toughen Special Enrollment Period Eligibility

Implementing Health Reform. One of the central Affordable Care Act strategies for expanding access to health insurance (and thus to health care) has been to create a stable individual insurance market where individuals and families can find affordable...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2016 5:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, special enrollment periods, health insurance marketplaces

Obama Vetoes ACA Repeal, And Other Health Reform Developments

Implementing Health Reform. On January 8, 2016, President Obama to the surprise of no one vetoed HR 3762, the budget reconciliation act that sought to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In his veto message , the President laid out the potential consequences...

Published Sat, Jan 09 2016 2:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA repeal, worlplace wellness programs, ACA tax provisions

CMS Acts On Special Enrollment Periods, CO-OPs

For some time insurers have been complaining that consumers have been abusing special enrollment periods (SEPs) to sit out open enrollment opportunities while healthy and then enroll in coverage through SEPs once they need health care. Consumer Oriented...

Published Sat, May 07 2016 7:54 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage

Request For Abstracts: Work And Health

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue in February 2017 that will explore various aspects of work and health, including questions surrounding the broader value of health benefits and relationships between employer-sponsored benefits, health of the population...

Published Thu, May 19 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, request for abstracts, Health Affairs journal, work and health

The Payment Reform Landscape: A Standard Framework To Evaluate Payment Reform Programs

As health care costs continue to rise and the quality of care remains inconsistent, employers, other private and public health care purchasers, health plans, and providers are now experimenting in earnest with reforms to how we deliver and pay for health...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2015 1:17 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Catalyst for Payment Reform, payment reform progams

States And Health IT: Upcoming Conference

As mentioned before on this blog, Health Affairs is the official media sponsor for the upcoming 2011 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit, June 21-23 in Dulles, Virginia. If you are interested in the conference but can’t attend in person, you can...

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 1:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health IT, States

Implementing Health Reform: External Review As An Example Of A Nuanced Regulatory Approach

On Marcy 23, 2013, the United States will observe the third anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. On March 15, 2013, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury issued a joint technical release extending until January 1, 2106,...

Published Mon, Mar 18 2013 11:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries In Primary Care

In many countries, primary care clinicians serve as the foundation for health care and the “gatekeepers” for more specialized referrals. A new international survey of primary care physicians in eleven countries finds that American doctors are significantly...

Published Fri, Nov 06 2009 8:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health IT, Primary Care

Health Policy Brief: Employers And Health Care Reform

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explores a provision of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 that is aimed at expanding access to and strengthening the employment-based health system. Beginning in 2014,...

Published Thu, Mar 10 2011 7:44 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

The ACA’s Contraception Coverage Mandate: Constitutional Limits On Exempting Employers

On March 25, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over whether the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) requirement that for-profit companies cover contraception—commonly called the contraception mandate—is legal. Thus far, most public debate, scholarship...

Published Thu, Mar 20 2014 7:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Narrative Matters: How Acute Care Training Is Failing Patients With Chronic Disease

In the August Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay , a doctor questions how well acute care medical training serves those with chronic disease while watching the decline of two patients with kidney failure, one healthier and one frail. Dena Rifkin’s...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2014 10:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Chronic Care, Personal Experience, Narrative Matters

Implementing Health Reform: Provision Of Summary of Benefits and Coverage, And More

One of the most important insurance reforms imposed by the Affordable Care Act is a requirement that insurers and self-insured group health plans make available to applicants and enrollees a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) that concisely, uniformly...

Published Sun, Jun 14 2015 6:07 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage

Breaking Down The Final 2018 Letter To Issuers

Editor’s note: The final 2018 Letter To Issuers In The Federally Facilitated Maketplaces, discussed below, was issued in conjunction with the final 2018 Benefit and Payment Parameters rule, discussed here and here . On December 16, 2016, the Centers...

Published Mon, Dec 19 2016 10:42 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage

Global Financial Crisis Takes Toll On Health Funding

Between 2002 and 2008, financial and in-kind assistance from public and private channels to improve health in developing countries grew rapidly; for instance, assistance grew by 17 percent between 2007 and 2008. However, a new study from Health Affairs...

Published Thu, Dec 15 2011 11:56 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Spending, Global Health

Berwick To Head CMS Without Senate Confirmation

President Obama will bypass the Senate and use a recess appointment today to install Don Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Such an appointment, made while the Senate is not in session, will enable Berwick to assume the...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 6:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics

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