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Is There Any Room Left For Empirical Research On Family Planning?

The United States’ health care safety net relies heavily on states to implement and administer federally funded programs. As the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has so clearly shown, this reliance is proving to be increasingly...

Published Tue, Jun 28 2016 9:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Research, Population Health, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Texas, Abortion, Medicaid expansion, family planning, Planned Parenthood, reproductive health care, Contraception
Failure To Approve Oklahoma Waiver Undermines Trust Between HHS And States

By failing to follow through on repeated assurances to Oklahoma that its 1332 reinsurance waiver would be approved on an expedited timeline, the federal government dealt a devastating blow to Oklahoma consumers and magnified suspicions that the Department...

Published Sat, Sep 30 2017 8:59 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, reinsurance, 1332 waivers, Oklahoma
De-Medicalizing Death

There’s been an unexpected, and excellent, consequence to California’s new medical aid-in-dying law. For many terminally ill patients, immersion in the process of securing lethal drugs ultimately renders them unnecessary. How did this come about? Passed...

Published Thu, Sep 28 2017 6:50 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Palliative Care, California, End of Life & Serious Illness, medical aid in dying, intensive care unit, End of Life Option Act, critical care
People Post: Staff And Board Changes In Health Philanthropy; Honors

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola has been elected to the board of the California Health Care Foundation . A professor of clinical internal medicine at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), he also directs the UC Davis Health System’s Center for Reducing...

Published Tue, Mar 08 2016 9:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Disparities, Patient Safety, Aging, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Equity and Disparities, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kentucky, rural health
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
What’s Behind The Surging Interest In Raising The Age To Buy Tobacco? (Podcast)

In trying to curb tobacco use, a growing number of state and local policymakers want to raise the minimum age to legally purchase cigarettes. On January 1, 2016, Hawaii became the first state to raise the age to 21. And in March, California lawmakers...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2016 12:00 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Podcast, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, California, Hawaii, culture of health, tobacco, Smoking, cigarettes, smoking cessation
Correcting Misconceptions About Invisible Risk-Sharing

On April 6, the House of Representatives added an amendment from Rep. Gary Palmer (AL) and Rep. David Schweikert (AZ) to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) before their recess. The amendment was drawn, in part, from the proposal in our previous Health...

Published Tue, Apr 25 2017 8:11 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Maine, reinsurance, high-risk pools, AHCA, invisible high risk pools
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
Maryland’s All-Payer Model—Achievements, Challenges, And Next Steps

Three years after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the state of Maryland launched a bold approach to improve care for Marylanders and slow the growth in health care costs, Maryland continues to focus on limiting total per capita...

Published Tue, Jan 31 2017 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, All-Payer Claims Database, Maryland
Trump’s Obamacare Executive Order: Much Ado About Very Little

On Inauguration Day, newly sworn-in President Donald Trump signed an Affordable Care Act (ACA) executive order that the new Administration heralded as a major development. In a Washington Post page 1 story , the headline read “Signed Order Might Start...

Published Thu, Jan 26 2017 7:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Congress, Republicans, ACA repeal and replace, executive order, Trump
Implementing Health Reform: Medical Loss Ratios

Editor’s Note: The post below, on the “medical loss ratio” (MLR) rule issued yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services, is the latest in a series of posts by Timothy Jost on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Earlier...

Published Tue, Nov 23 2010 5:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Quality
Five Lessons From The AHCA’s Demise

While the keyhole of history has had insufficient time to bring the failed launch of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) into focus, it’s not too soon to begin learning some of the lessons it can teach us. Legislative efforts have a lifespan but our health...

Published Mon, Mar 27 2017 8:52 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, Republicans, bipartisanship, ACA repeal and replace, American Health Care Act
The Future Of Delivery System Reform

Over the past several years, the federal government has put billions of dollars into a variety of programs aimed at improving the way health care is delivered. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorized a broad agenda of reform projects, including accountable...

Published Thu, Apr 20 2017 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Accountable Care Organizations, ACOs, Medicare Advantage, Affordable Care Act, MACRA, HMOs, supplemental insurance reform
A National Initiative To Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections: A Model For Reducing Preventable Harm

Editor's note: A full list of coauthors and their affiliated institutions appears at the end of this post. The work to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units is one of few national efforts to use empiric data...

Published Mon, Sep 23 2013 10:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Physicians, Quality, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Effectiveness, Research
To Fight Noncommunicable Diseases, Forge Strong Partnerships

Throughout nearly all of human history, most people died from causes for which pathogens were to blame. But today, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and chronic lung disease—are responsible...

Published Tue, Sep 08 2015 1:29 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Quality, Obesity, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, Long-term Services and Supports, Diabetes, NCDs, Project HOPE, noncommunicable diseases, Mexico, Eli Lilly, India, South Africa

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Is There Any Room Left For Empirical Research On Family Planning?

Failure To Approve Oklahoma Waiver Undermines Trust Between HHS And States

De-Medicalizing Death

People Post: Staff And Board Changes In Health Philanthropy; Honors

Healthy Indiana 2.0 Is Challenging Medicaid Norms

What’s Behind The Surging Interest In Raising The Age To Buy Tobacco? (Podcast)

Correcting Misconceptions About Invisible Risk-Sharing

The Future Of Precision Medicine: Great Promise, Significant Challenges

Maryland’s All-Payer Model—Achievements, Challenges, And Next Steps

Trump’s Obamacare Executive Order: Much Ado About Very Little

Implementing Health Reform: Medical Loss Ratios

Five Lessons From The AHCA’s Demise

The Future Of Delivery System Reform

A National Initiative To Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections: A Model For Reducing Preventable Harm

To Fight Noncommunicable Diseases, Forge Strong Partnerships