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Implementing Health Reform: A February Exchange Enrollment Report

On March 11, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services released its Health Insurance Marketplace March Enrollment Report covering the period of October 1, 2013 through March 1, 2014. The Report covers, that is to say, five of the six months of...

Published Wed, Mar 12 2014 8:31 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Medicaid, Children

Continuous Coverage Improves Costs And Quality For Children And Low-Income Adults

The termination of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage due to short-term income changes or frequent reapplication requirements increases overall health care costs and negatively affects quality of care and quality measurement...

Published Thu, Mar 13 2014 12:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, States, Coverage, Access, Disparities, Medicaid, Children

Implementing Health Reform: Exchange And Insurance Market Standards Proposed Rule

On March 14, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published a proposed rule titled “ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Exchange and Insurance Market Standards .” The rule was accompanied...

Published Sun, Mar 16 2014 6:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Why Are Hispanics Slow To Enroll In ACA Coverage? Insights From The Health Reform Monitoring Survey

As the end of the ACA's first open enrollment period approaches, there is a big push to get as many uninsured people signed up for coverage as possible. As of March 1, 2014, more than 4.2 million people had enrolled in a plan through a federal or...

Published Tue, Mar 18 2014 11:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Coverage, Disparities, Medicaid

Evidence-Based Policymaking In A Polarized Environment: Can The IPAB Bridge The Gap?

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) establishes the executive-appointed 15-member Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The IPAB is an expert body charged with trimming Medicare costs and improving the quality of health care. Board...

Published Fri, Jun 15 2012 8:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Spending, Medicare, Access, Research

The EHR Has No Clothes

Having been a serious computer geek in an earlier phase of my life, I always thought that having an electronic medical record (a.k.a. an electronic health record or EHR) would be a wonderful thing. I could access data from anywhere with no lost charts;...

Published Wed, Jun 20 2012 9:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid

Clinical Nuance: Benefit Design Meets Behavioral Economics

On Capitol Hill, there’s a growing chorus of support from both sides of the aisle to move the focus of health care payment incentives from volume to value. Earlier this month, legislators introduced proposals that would have fixed the sustainable growth...

Published Thu, Apr 03 2014 11:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Pharma, Quality, Effectiveness

Implementing Health Reform: Medicaid & CHIP February 2014 Report

On April 4, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released their Medicaid & CHIP February 2014 Monthly Applications, Eligibility Determinations, and Enrollment Report . (Blog post here .) For the first time, the February monthly report...

Published Sat, Apr 05 2014 1:17 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, States, Coverage, Medicaid, Children

What’s Past Is Prologue: Making The Case For PET Beta-Amyloid Imaging Coverage

Editor's note: This post is published in conjunction with the April issue of Health Affairs , which features a series of articles on Alzheimer's disease. In September of 2013, CMS issued its final decision memo that concluded positron emission...

Published Wed, Apr 09 2014 10:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Medicare, Medicaid, Comparative Effectiveness, End-of-Life Care, Aging, Biotech, Science and Health, Research

Implementing Health Reform: Changing Focus, And Changing Leadership, At HHS

With the March 31, 2014 deadline for applying for qualified health plan coverage through the health insurance exchanges behind us, and the April 15, 2014 deadline for completing those applications upon us, Affordable Care Act implementation has quieted...

Published Fri, Apr 11 2014 7:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States, Medicare

The Supreme Court’s Medicaid Ruling: ‘A Shift In Kind, Not Merely Degree’

This is a day to think about the Constitutional, rather than the practical, implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Nonetheless, the hallmark of the remarkable decision handed down today is the degree to which it navigates multiple...

Published Thu, Jun 28 2012 4:09 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Decision Time For States On The Affordable Care Act

With the constitutionality of the individual mandate—and with it, almost the entire Affordable Care Act—now established, the implementation ball has been returned squarely to the states’ court. The highly variable state responses to the law—ranging from...

Published Mon, Jul 02 2012 8:37 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States, Medicaid, Health Law

Health Reform And Federalism: Henry Aaron’s View

Seven years ago, Stuart Butler and I joined together, a conservative/liberal “odd couple,” to endorse the idea that states should be empowered to take the lead on health reform. As with many positions endorsed by strange bedfellows, our reasons...

Published Fri, Mar 11 2011 7:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States

Exhibit Of The Month: Effects Of Dementia On Hospitalization

Editor’s note: This post is part of a new “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’s exhibit, published in...

Published Tue, Apr 29 2014 8:06 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Chronic Care, Hospitals, End-of-Life Care, Long-Term Care

The ACA After The First Open Enrollment: A Health Affairs Conversation With Paul Ginsburg, Sherry Glied, and Bill Hoagland

The first open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges recently closed. In the latest edition of our Health Affairs Conversations podcast series , Paul Ginsburg, Sherry Glied, and Bill Hoagland discuss what we can...

Published Thu, May 01 2014 5:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Coverage, Quality, Medicaid, Podcast

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