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Health Affairs Web First: Positive Results For Value-Based Insurance Design Plans

One of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act calls for the creation of guidelines to facilitate the broader use of Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) plans. Existing VBID plans have been structured in a variety of ways, and these variations could...

Published Wed, Feb 12 2014 1:58 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Coverage, Pharma, Effectiveness

Fact Vs. Fiction In Advance Care Planning, Take Two

For the second time, a proposal to pay health care providers to counsel Medicare beneficiaries on future care options and end-of-life planning has fallen victim to the politics of the health care debate. The House included language to pay physicians and...

Published Thu, Jan 06 2011 8:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Politics, Payment, End-of-Life Care, Aging

Yes, We Can Transcend Obamacare

In a recent Health Affairs Blog post , Washington and Lee University law professor Timothy Jost described a new health-reform plan designed by one of us (Roy) and fiscally modeled by the other (Parente) as a “serious proposal [that] deserves to be taken...

Published Thu, Nov 06 2014 11:49 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Medicaid, Europe

MACRA Proposed Rule Creates More Problems Than It Solves

In the heat of political gridlock when it seemed impossible for Congress to pass any laws, the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act, commonly known as MACRA, was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. MACRA, which was signed into law in April 2015...

Published Wed, Oct 12 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Hospitals, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, EHRs, MACRA, Alternative Payment Models, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

CMS And Health Reform: A Health Affairs Blog Roundtable

Much of the burden of implementing the newly passed health reform legislation will fall on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency must handle this task while continuing to perform its already daunting duties involving Medicare, Medicaid...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 12:30 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health IT, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Innovation

Medicaid Expansion Through Section 1115 Waivers: Evaluating The Tradeoffs

Editor’s note: This post is part of a Health Affairs Blog Symposium on Health Law stemming from 4th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review conference hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2016 9:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Medicare, Quality, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, ACA, Michigan, The Health Law Year in P/Review, NFIB v. Sebelius, Medicaid expansion, Section 1115 Waivers, Arizona

The Economics Of Medicaid Expansion

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), particularly the expansion of Medicaid, has created considerable controversy, with 20 states opting not to expand the program, leaving over 3 million Americans uninsured who might otherwise be covered by Medicaid. With the...

Published Mon, Mar 21 2016 8:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Quality, Featured, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Medicaid expansion, medicaid expansion states, Kentucky, low-income enrollees, federal subsidies

Losing The ‘All’ in All-Payer Claims Databases

The legal and policy questions following the US Supreme Court ’s ruling in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co , 577 U.S. ____ (2016) have been widely discussed, including in Health Affairs Blog posts by Sage , Brown and King , and Newman . The Court...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2016 8:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, Maine, Supreme Court, APCDs, Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., ERISA

Changing The Name — But Not The Political Game

Editor’s Note: Yesterday, the Obama administration announced interim final regulations governing the temporary Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Below, Thomas Miller and James Capretta...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 5:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Politics, Insurance, Spending, Coverage, Health Law

ACOs And Inequity: Lessons From No Child Left Behind

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that 32 health care organizations from around the country had signed on to the new Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) initiative, part of a broader push to incentivize...

Published Fri, Feb 17 2012 9:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Policy, Payment, Quality, Disparities

What Is An ‘Essential Benefit’?

A central feature of health reform is the state exchanges, through which a variety of plans will be offered. Each of those plans will be required to offer a package of “essential benefits” as defined in the Affordable Care Act. When most people think...

Published Fri, Oct 29 2010 9:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Coverage, Innovation

The Payment Reform Landscape: The Potential Value Of Aligning High-Value Benefit Designs With Payment Reforms

While payment reform efforts are proliferating, we still have a lot to learn about which health care payment and delivery reform programs result in more affordable care, with better outcomes for patients. But one thing we see often is a mismatch between...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2017 8:50 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Primary Care, Featured, Payment Policy, Health Professionals, patient-centered medical homes

Eyes On The Final Prize: Integrating Services To Transform Global Health

As 2015 draws to a close, the global health community is examining the strides that have been made and how we can transform this progress into further gains across the public health spectrum. The United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2015 4:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Equity and Disparities, HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, United Nations, sustainable development goals, universal health care, Japan

What’s In A Word? The Evolution Of Effectiveness In Health Care

The health care world is full of colloquial terms like value or affordability that mean different things to different stakeholders. Often how you define them and what you think of them depends on your place within the overall health ecosystem. It’s a...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2016 11:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, ACOs, value based care, Choosing Wisely, Alternative Payment Models

An Innovative Patient-Centered Total Joint Replacement Program

Total joint replacement surgery is among the most commonly performed inpatient procedures in the United States. More than 1,000,000 hip and knee replacements are performed each year, and, with the aging of our population, that number is expected to grow...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2016 10:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Quality, Innovations in Care Delivery, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, patient-centered care, safety net and value, surgery, hip and knee replacements, surgeons

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