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From Machine-Readable Provider Directories, A Preview Of A Revolution

Amidst recent and anticipated changes in health insurance markets, there has been a growing trend towards increased transparency of provider networks. An important part of this effort is the implementation of standardized, machine-readable provider directories...

Published Mon, Feb 27 2017 8:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, health insurance exchanges, machine-readable provider directories, provider networks

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

A Look At Republican Intentions? Diving Into The Leaked ACA Replacement Bill

On February 24, 2017, a draft House reconciliation bill was leaked to the media. Although I have not seen any claims that it is not authentic, it is dated February 10 and may not be the most recent draft. I have also not seen any assertion that the Congressional...

Published Sat, Feb 25 2017 6:44 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA

Syrian Doctors And The American Dream: Practicing Medicine In A New Immigration Landscape

Becoming a physician is a lifelong dream for many. Having the opportunity to train in the United States is also a deeply held ambition for countless aspiring doctors around the globe. We are living out that dream. We came to the U.S. from Syria, a war...

Published Fri, Feb 24 2017 9:06 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Health Professionals, immigration, Global Health Policy, executive order, Trump

Behind The CMS Spending Projections: Assumptions, Challenges, And Lessons

The health spending statistics and forecasts from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary are central to health policy evaluation. The current release , which provides actual numbers from 2015 and uses them to update...

Published Fri, Feb 24 2017 7:18 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Costs and Spending, CMS Office of the Actuary, spending projections

Administration Allows States To Extend Transitional Policies Again

On February 23, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released an insurance standards bulletin allowing states once again to extend the life of “grandmothered” or transitional health insurance policies to policy years beginning on or before...

Published Thu, Feb 23 2017 1:20 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, risk pools, grandmothered plans

Withdrawal Of Guidance On Bathroom Access Raises Questions For Gender Identity Protections Under ACA

On February 22, 2017, the Departments of Education and Justice issued a statement withdrawing the Obama administration’s guidance that required schools to permit access to sex-segregated facilities (bathrooms and locker rooms) based on gender identity...

Published Thu, Feb 23 2017 9:03 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: health equity, gender identity, ACA section 1557

Reading The Fine Print: Do ACA Replacement Proposals Give States More Flexibility And Authority?

State officials have been heartened by statements from incoming Congressional leadership and the new President that states will gain greater authority and autonomy over their health insurance markets than they have had under the Affordable Care Act (ACA...

Published Thu, Feb 23 2017 6:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, interstate insurance

Health Affairs Web First: Mexico’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Shows Results

In 2012 studies showed that the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexico had reached 70 percent among adults and 30 percent among children. In an effort to combat the obesity epidemic, Mexico implemented a 1 peso per liter excise tax on sugar-sweetened...

Published Wed, Feb 22 2017 2:09 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, Web First, Mexico

Should Government Officials Be Held Responsible For Failing To Protect Health?

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 Wed, Feb 22 2017 6:04 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Population Health, Flint, public health officials, Michigan Safe Water Drinking Act

Parties Ask Court To Keep Cost-Sharing Reduction Payment Litigation On Hold

On February 21, 2017 the House of Representatives and the Trump administration Justice Department filed a joint motion in House v. Burwell asking the court to continue to hold the case in abeyance “with status reports due every three months beginning...

Published Tue, Feb 21 2017 11:26 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, House v. Burwell

Economic Benefit Of Vaccines Highlighted In 2017 Bill & Melinda Gates Annual Letter

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates released their annual letter on February 14, 2017, and this year’s letter highlights the couple’s optimism about progress in global health. The letter, written in the form of a response to a query from Warren Buffet about...

Published Tue, Feb 21 2017 10:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, Global Health, Children, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Costs and Spending, vaccines, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Policy

Misleading Metrics

Editor’s Note: This essay contains excerpts from Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life , coming February 21st, 2017 from Penguin-Random House. A few years ago, while at a family get-together, I sat across from a retired hospice...

Published Tue, Feb 21 2017 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Hospitals, Palliative Care, Health Professionals, End of Life & Serious Illness, 30-day mortality statistic, advance directive

Solving The Rural Health Care Access Crisis With The Freestanding Emergency Center Care Model

Over the past several decades, rural hospitals have closed at alarming rates. A 2016 study identified over 650 rural hospitals vulnerable to closure in 42 states with 38 percent of 1,332 Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) operating at a financial loss. CAHs...

Published Tue, Feb 21 2017 6:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Emergency Medicine, Health Policy Lab, Organization and Delivery, Critical Access Hospitals, Freestanding Emergency Centers

Request For Abstracts: The Practice Of Medicine

Health Affairs seeks submissions for a series of articles focusing on the practice of medicine that we will begin publishing in early 2017. The series will explore the broad practice environment and how features of that environment affect physicians,...

Published Fri, Feb 17 2017 12:58 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, practice of medicine

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