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Narrative Matters Site Gets A New Look

As visitors to the Health Affairs website may have noticed, the Narrative Matters page looks a bit different these days. That’s because we’ve redesigned the site to be more dynamic and user-friendly, making it easier to read or listen to recent essays...

Published Wed, May 28 2014 12:40 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Personal Experience, Narrative Matters

Bundled Payments: Moving From Pilots To Programs

Sometimes myths take way too long to die. A case in point was last month’s Health Affairs Entry Point by Rob Cunningham on the "Payment Reform Paradox." In it, he cites years-old information about the then difficulties of engaging providers...

Published Mon, Jun 02 2014 11:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Payment, States

Repeal, And Replace, The Employer Mandate

As it enters its fifth year, the Affordable Care Act has chalked up an impressive list of accomplishments. More than 8 million Americans have chosen a health plan through the ACA exchanges. At least another five million have likely enrolled in Medicaid...

Published Wed, Jun 04 2014 6:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Public Opinion, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Coverage

Proposed CMS Regulation Kills ACOs Softly

Editor’s Note:This post is part of a series of Health Affairs Blog posts examining the proposed rule implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program, issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. You can read earlier posts...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2011 9:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Primary Care, Medicare, Quality

Accountable Care Organizations: An Opportunity To Transform Care

The latest study, out last week, shows one in three patients in the hospital may experience a medical error—an incidence almost ten times higher than previously assumed. Health care costs still make up approximately 17 percent of GDP—about $2.5 trillion...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2011 3:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Spending, Competition, Quality, Patient Safety

HA Blog’s July Top-Ten List Features Posts On Supreme Court Decision

Several posts on the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act decision and its aftermath are included in July’s list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts. Joe Antos’ look at what comes next tops the list, followed by posts by Alice Noble...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2012 12:56 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Consumers, Insurance, States, Health Law

Massachusetts Health Care Reform: An Academic Provider’s Perspective

How does Massachusetts health care reform and recently-passed cost containment legislation look from the perspective of an academic integrated delivery system like Partners Healthcare? I’d summarize as follows: . There is plenty of uncertainty over how...

Published Mon, Aug 13 2012 12:09 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Quality, Hospitals

Implementing Health Reform: The Supreme Court Rules on Contraception Coverage

The Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision may have a major impact on American religious liberty, employment, and corporation law. It does not in any way undermine the Affordable Care Act. The cases never challenged the Affordable Care Act as such. Rather...

Published Mon, Jun 30 2014 12:20 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Health Law, Reform

Recent Health Policy Brief: Site Neutral Payments

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) describes the different proposals designed to eliminate differences in Medicare’s payment systems that depend on where care and services are delivered. Currently...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2014 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Medicare

Exhibit Of The Month: A Big Data Understanding Of Health Care Trends

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing “ Exhibit of the Month” series . Readers who’d like to highlight other noteworthy exhibits from the same issue are encouraged to make their pitch in the comments section below. This month we look at two exhibits...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2014 7:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health IT, Big Data, Exhibit of the Month

Individual Patient Expanded Access: Developing Principles For A Structural And Regulatory Framework

Editor's note: In addition to Meaghan George, Sara Bencic and Darshak Sanghavi also coauthored this post. Individual patient expanded access, sometimes termed “compassionate use,” refers to situations where access to a drug still in the development...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2014 12:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Access, Bioethics, Pharma, Health Law, Effectiveness, Research

An Ounce Of Prevention For The ACA’s Second Open Enrollment

Note: In addition to Jon Kingsdale, this post is coauthored by Julia Lerche. Since recovering from its flawed rollout, the ACA has enjoyed a string of successes. By April, some eight million Americans managed to enroll; for 2015, some reluctant insurers...

Published Mon, Aug 04 2014 9:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, States, Cost

The Payment Reform Landscape: Accountable Care Organizations

Note: In addition to Suzanne Delbanco, t his post is also coauthored by David Lansky. “The accountable care organization is like a unicorn, a fantastic creature that is vested with mythical powers. But no one has actually seen one,” said former California...

Published Tue, Aug 05 2014 10:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality, Effectiveness, Health Care Delivery, Business of Health Care

More Avoidable Deaths In The US Than In Three European Countries

Amenable mortality—deaths that could have been avoided with timely and appropriate health care—accounts for 21 percent of deaths among men and 30 percent among women under the age of 75 in several high-income countries. A Health Affairs Web First study...

Published Thu, Aug 30 2012 8:33 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Chronic Care, Quality, Patient Safety, Europe

What Health Reform Means For Medicare

While President Barack Obama and congressional leaders continue to tussle over what to do about the nation’s unsustainable entitlement spending programs, the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) seem to have gone largely unnoticed...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 5:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Access, Hospitals

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