Health Affairs

Reflections On The Federal Budget Resolutions

According to a process laid out in the Budget Act of 1974, the budget resolutions put forth by the House of Representatives and the Senate emerge as modifications, sometimes substantial, of the budget to be submitted by the first Monday in February by...

Published Thu, Mar 21 2013 5:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Disparities, Medicaid

More from the Grantmakers In Health Annual Conference: Diane Meier on Palliative Care; a Film on Elder Care

This past week, I gave you a brief glimpse of the 2015 GIH Annual Conference in Austin, Texas. Here are two more vignettes from the conference, held in March. Its theme was Pathways to Health. Diane Meier Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care...

Published Thu, Apr 23 2015 3:15 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Workforce, Quality, Hospitals, Aging, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery, Palliative Care, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, Long-term Services and Supports, Home Health

Teaching Health Centers: Targeted Expansion For Immediate GME Reform

Since the first Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report recommending reform of graduate medical education (GME) in 1989, its funding and governance have been debated extensively. The long awaited IOM GME Report issued July 2014 recommends major reforms, producing...

Published Fri, Apr 24 2015 10:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Policy Lab, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals

A Wannabe Winemaker Plots The Path To A New Health Care Delivery System

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil recently surprised readers with his comments on “ Why I Oppose Payment Reform .” Those of us who fell for that bit of click bait discovered that, of course, he does not oppose reform. Rather, he wanted to remind...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Quality, Hospitals, Health Care Delivery, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Value, Payment Reform, Health Professionals, Alan Weil

Building Health into Community Design: One Foundation’s Effort

I consider myself lucky. My family lives in the Lowry neighborhood in Denver. As the site of the former Lowry Air Force Base, which was re-developed in 1995, I can go out my front door and be at a grocery store, coffee shop, gym, restaurant, or park within...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2015 2:25 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Chronic Care, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Environmental Health, Population Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Obesity Prevention

The Case For Delaying Implementation Of The ICD-10 Coding System

American health care has a love-hate relationship with the venerable International Classification of Diseases (ICD),” begins a commentary released yesterday as a Web First by Health Affairs. Since 1977 the United States has relied on the ICD, Ninth Revision...

Published Thu, Mar 22 2012 1:46 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Health IT

Wendy Mariner On The Supreme Court Health Reform Arguments: The Anti-Injunction Act

If comments by the Justices of the United States Supreme Court are any indication of their likely decision, then the Court seems ready to decide whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) minimum coverage provision (also known as the...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 6:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health Law

The Minimum Coverage Requirement Oral Argument: A Comprehensive Discussion By Timothy Jost

The central issue in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) litigation, or at least the issue that has received the most media and public attention, is the constitutionality of the minimum coverage requirement, commonly called the individual mandate. Section 5000A...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 7:07 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Sara Rosenbaum: Trying To Make Sense Of The States’ Medicaid Coercion Arguments

Despite Paul Clement’s brilliant representation of his clients throughout the oral arguments, the coercion doctrine itself that remains murky. Furthermore, whatever the doctrine might mean, its application to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 5:52 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, States, Medicaid, Health Law

Alice Noble And Mary Ann Chirba On Severability: Life Is A Highway

On Day Three of arguments about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court turned its attention to the question of severability. Should the Court find that the ACA’s minimum coverage requirement is indeed a proper exercise...

Published Thu, Mar 29 2012 9:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Medicare, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law, Children

Implementing Health Reform: Health Plan Quality And Enrollee Satisfaction Ratings

In the midst of all of the storm and fury that attended the announcement of the Administration’s administrative fix for policy cancellations, HHS also quietly released on November 14, 2013, a Notice with comment regarding the Quality Rating System (QRS...

Published Fri, Nov 15 2013 1:20 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Medicare Spending Issues Are A Focus Of New Health Affairs Issue

To calculate physicians’ fees under Medicare—which in turn influence private payers’ decisions on how they will pay doctors—the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) relies on the recommendations of a controversial advisory panel known as the...

Published Mon, May 07 2012 1:15 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, States, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Disabilities

Recent Health Policy Brief: Young Adults and the Affordable Care Act

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explores one crucial ingredient necessary for the Affordable Care Act to succeed: the enrollment of millions of young Americans. According to 2008 census data, three...

Published Mon, Dec 16 2013 12:08 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Coverage, Health Law

Misplaced Faith: The Real Causes of Ill Health

Editor’s Note: The post below by Merrill Goozner first appeared on The Values and Health Reform Connection, a site run by the Hastings Center and supported by Health Affairs as a media sponsor. Goozner’s post can also be found on his blog...

Published Thu, Oct 15 2009 5:30 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Bioethics

Unfreezing The Health IT Market

Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein recently described the Obama administration’s consistent efforts to improve troubled private markets: Isolate the eight key economic decisions of the Obama presidency: The intervention in the financial sector, the...

Published Wed, Jan 12 2011 11:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health IT, Competition, Innovation

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