Health Affairs

Bundled Payment: Learning From Our Failures

Note: In addition to Tom Williams, Jill Yegian also coauthored this post. Seeing “IHA” and “Fails” together in the title of an article in the nation’s premier health policy journal was not an outcome that we anticipated when the bundled payment initiative...

Published Tue, Aug 05 2014 8:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Medicaid, Business of Health Care

Expanding Medicaid: The Smart Decision For Maryland

Editor’s note: The post below explains why Maryland has chosen to implement the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Watch Health Affairs Blog for an upcoming post explaining why South Carolina has decided not to implement the expansion...

Published Wed, Aug 29 2012 12:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Insurance, States, Spending, Coverage, Hospitals, Medicaid

Clinical Registries: The Opportunity For The Nation

In the early 1970s, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation began tracking the health of patients with cystic fibrosis. What began as a modest data collection effort is today a comprehensive clinical registry of 26,000 patients. Caregivers and researchers use...

Published Wed, May 11 2011 9:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness

Projected Slow Growth In 2013 Health Spending Ahead Of Future Increases

Insurance Coverage, Population Aging, and Economic Growth Are Main Drivers of Projected Future Health Spending Increases New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project a slow 3.6 percent...

Published Wed, Sep 03 2014 1:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

Health Affairs Event Reminder: Advancing Global Health Policy

Please join us on Monday, September 8, when Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will host a briefing to discuss our September 2014 thematic issue, "Advancing Global Health Policy." In an expansion of last year's theme, "The 'Triple...

Published Fri, Sep 05 2014 7:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Global Health

Improving Access To High Quality Hospice Care: What Is The Optimal Path?

Editor’s note: This post is part of a periodic Health Affairs Blog series on palliative care, health policy, and health reform. The series features essays adapted from and drawing on an upcoming volume, Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2014 5:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Access, Palliative Care

Birth Control Pills Should Be Available Over The Counter, But That’s No Substitute For Contraceptive Coverage

In recent weeks, some opponents of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive coverage guarantee have promoted the idea that oral contraceptive pills should be available to adult women without a prescription. Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Mitch McConnell...

Published Wed, Sep 10 2014 11:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Access, Pharma

Health Wonk Review: Memorial Day Edition

If you’re traveling over the long weekend, you’ll want to take along some reading material. While some might reach for a good novel by John Grisham or Dan Brown, the health policy blogs in this edition of the Health Wonk Review tackle equally...

Published Thu, May 26 2011 6:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Nonmedical Determinants, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health IT, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Bioethics, Quality, Disparities

The Beacon Communities At One Year: The Tulsa Experience

Editor’s note: The federal government’s Beacon Program provides funding to 17 communities that have already made inroads in the development of secure, private, and accurate systems of electronic health record (EHR) adoption and health information exchange...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2011 12:19 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Quality

Post On Health Reform And Medicare Tops May’s HA Blog Most-Read List

Thomas Saving’s and John Goodman’s post on the implications of the Affordable Care Act for Medicare leads the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for May. On the list as well are posts on the hazards of ignoring the lessons of the...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2011 8:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Medicare, Coverage, Comparative Effectiveness, Environmental Health

Narrative Matters: When The System Fails The Intertwined Needs Of Caregiver And Patient

In the September Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay , when a family caregiver becomes injured, she learns the difficulties—and costs—of caring for herself and her chronically ill husband at the same time. Suzanne Geffen Mintz's article is freely...

Published Mon, Sep 15 2014 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Personal Experience, Narrative Matters

Better Use Of Dedicated Hospital Observation Units Could Save $3.1 Billion A Year

The rising demand for acute care has caused more crowding in emergency departments (EDs) in US hospitals. Because hospital care accounted for more than 30 percent of total 2009 health care expenditures, alternative solutions are badly needed to bring...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2012 1:24 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Care Costs, Spending, Hospitals

Implementing Health Reform: The Multi-State Plan Program

On September 21, 2012, the Office for Personnel Management (OPM) issued a request for comments on a Multi-State Plan Program (MSPP) application. The MSPP plays an important role under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA requires the OPM, which administers...

Published Thu, Sep 27 2012 11:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, States, Competition

Health Policy Brief: Medicare Advantage

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes the provision in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 that will gradually reduce federal payments to the Medicare Advantage program. Roughly one in four of the nation...

Published Thu, Jun 16 2011 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Medicare

A Patient Advocate’s Perspective On Paying For Value

When patient-centered outcomes research “is used well, it can be a powerful tool in making medical care better informed, without limiting patients’ and providers’ choices.” That was the promise that I, and many others, held out with creation of the Patient...

Published Thu, Oct 09 2014 8:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Medicare, Medicaid, Comparative Effectiveness

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