Health Affairs

What The Supreme Court’s ACA Ruling Will Mean For Providers

The constitutional waiting game is finally over. Nearly three months to the day after the historic hearings on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court has upheld the vast majority of the law’s provisions...

Published Thu, Jun 28 2012 2:16 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, States, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid, Health Law, Aging

Preserving The Republic: Justice Roberts’ Affordable Care Act Opinion

Chief Justice John Roberts did right by America. Thursday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law’s minimum coverage provision and allowed the Affordable Care Act to move forward. Health reform is often simpler than...

Published Sat, Jun 30 2012 12:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Prevention, Public Opinion, Health Care Costs, States, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law

Health Affairs Briefing: Assessing The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief

On Tuesday, July 10, Health Affairs will release its July 2012 issue, “Assessing The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief.” The volume contains a thorough examination of PEPFAR, the program of bilateral U.S. assistance begun in...

Published Tue, Jul 03 2012 3:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Global Health, AIDS

Choice Architecture: Design Decisions That Affect Consumers’ Health Plan Choices

The Affordable Care Act is intended to bring new health insurance choices to American consumers but — unless we pay attention to the concept of choice architecture — consumers may not be able to identify the best choice for them. Health insurance...

Published Fri, Jul 13 2012 10:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Tax Credits In Federally Facilitated Exchanges Are Consistent With The Affordable Care Act’s Language And History

Those who oppose making affordable health insurance available to lower- and middle-income Americans are not giving up easily. Having lost their two-year long battle to have the Affordable Care Act nullified in its entirety by the federal courts, opponents...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 5:27 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Issues Of Overuse In Health Care Tops Health Affairs Blog Most-Read List For April

Shannon Brownlee, Vikas Saini, and Christine Cassel ’s look at issues of overuse in health care is the most-read Health Affairs Blog post for April. Brownlee et al.’s post was followed by Dean Aufderheide ’s post on mental illness in America’s jails and...

Published Wed, May 07 2014 1:15 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicaid, Mental Health, Connected Health

Measuring Patient Satisfaction: A Bridge Between Patient And Physician Perceptions Of Care

Patient satisfaction is at the core of patient centered medicine. Improved patient satisfaction not only leads to an enhanced patient experience—something every sick or injured patient deserves—it is also associated with improved treatment outcomes. In...

Published Fri, May 09 2014 9:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Physicians, Quality, Hospitals, Effectiveness

Reminder: Health Affairs May 19 Event On Provider Consolidation In Health Care

The clinical and economic virtues of provider consolidation have long been recognized by policy experts, but in recent years, research has shown that large provider organizations may use market power to obtain relatively high prices from payers without...

Published Thu, May 15 2014 9:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Competition, Quality, Hospitals, Health Law

Accountable Care Organizations: Our Field Of Dreams?

Every year, we look forward to Spring Training. The return of ballplayers to Florida and Arizona provides a sense of optimism that anything is possible in the coming year. However, in releasing the regulations for the shared savings program, is the Centers...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 7:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Physicians, States, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid

Wynne, Jost Posts Lead Health Affairs Blog Most-Read List For May

Billy Wynne's post on the 340B Rx Drug Discount program was the most-read Health Affairs Blog post in May. The top-15 list also featured several contributions from Tim Jost; his posts on the final 2015 Exchange and Insurance Market Standards rule...

Published Tue, Jun 10 2014 8:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Pharma, Health Law, Health Care Delivery

How Much Market Power Do Hospitals Systems Have?

Sometimes big game hunters find frustration when their prey moves by the time they’ve lined up to blast it. That certainly appears to be the case with the health policy target de jour: whether providers, hospital systems in particular, exert too much...

Published Thu, Jun 12 2014 12:13 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Competition, Hospitals, Business of Health Care

Mostashari And More Health IT In Health Affairs

One of the biggest challenges to realizing the full benefits of electronic health records (EHRs) has been moving their adoption beyond large integrated systems to safety net providers and physicians in small and solo practices. The new National Coordinator...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2011 2:37 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Medicare, Medicaid

The Proposed Accountable Care Organization Antitrust Guidance: A First Look

Editor’s note: This post, by Joe Miller, is part of a series of Health Affairs Blog posts examining the proposed rules and guidelines implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program, issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2011 12:11 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Competition, Hospitals, Health Law

The Big Shortage: Rethinking The Need For More Primary Care Doctors

Editor’s note: For more on ways that the traditional primary care model could be rethought, see the Health Affairs May 2010 thematic issue “Reinventing Primary Care.” Although primary care is regarded as the backbone of the healthcare...

Published Thu, Aug 02 2012 10:06 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Workforce, Access, Nurses

Health Policy Briefs: Graduate Medical Education, Fraud And Abuse

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzes the debate over financing of graduate medical education (GME). In the United States, approximately 115,000 medical school graduates are being trained each year...

Published Fri, Aug 17 2012 10:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Spending, Quality

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