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New Health Policy Brief: Physician Compare

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) looks at the evolution and current development plans for Physician Compare, a website mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A simple version of the site first launched...

Published Tue, Dec 16 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Medicare

Health Affairs Web First: The Bottom Line On Different Management Models In State Health Exchanges

The Affordable Care Act gives states discretion as to how they design their health insurance Marketplaces. Some states run their own Marketplace; others are part of the federally facilitated exchange; and a few chose a state-federal partnership. All states...

Published Wed, Dec 17 2014 1:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, Health Law

New Health Affairs Looks At Delivery Reform, Spending Sources

The November 2012 issue of Health Affairs , released today, contains articles on a wide variety of health policy topics, including: . Early insights from emerging care delivery models, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and patient-centered...

Published Mon, Nov 05 2012 1:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Quality

Reforming How We Pay For Health Care: The Role Of Bundled Payments

Structural reforms to the Medicare and Medicaid programs will be on the table as the debate over entitlement reform intensifies. There are three areas of opportunity for changing our entitlement programs: adding prevention initiatives that truly slow...

Published Thu, Dec 13 2012 1:22 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Payment, Physicians, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals

The Administration’s Decision On Partial Medicaid Implementation: True To The Law

Ever since the United States Supreme Court decided NFIB v Sebelius in June 2012, all eyes have focused on the question of how the Obama Administration would interpret the Court’s blockbuster ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s...

Published Wed, Dec 19 2012 7:01 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Responding To Newtown

The horrific massacre of 27 children and adults in Newtown, Connecticut ranks second only to Virginia Tech among U.S. mass shootings. These tragedies are part of a lengthening list of mass killings in such varied places as a shopping mall, a movie theater...

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 10:23 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Children, Mental Health

Public Opinion About Costs And Transparency: Learning From Massachusetts

Americans tend to blame rising health care costs on various “bad actors” -- insurance companies, drugmakers, and others who overcharge their customers. But two polls conducted earlier this year suggest that, if views about health care costs in Massachusetts...

Published Fri, Dec 28 2012 7:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Spending

Health Care Cost Growth Is Hurting Middle-Class Families

In the September, 2011 issue of Health Affairs , we examined the impact of a decade of health care cost growth on the income of a typical, median-income family of four with employer-sponsored health insurance. To recap, between 1999 and 2009, the middle...

Published Thu, Jan 03 2013 11:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending

Finding And Supporting A Workforce With The Right Skill Mix

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts related to the 4 th European Forum on Health Policy and Management: Innovation & Implementation , to be held in Berlin, Germany on January 29 and 30, 2015. For more information or to request...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2015 10:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Care Costs, Workforce, Quality, Innovation, Effectiveness, Health Care Delivery, Business of Health Care

Innovation In Health Care Education: A Call To Action

Health care administration educators are at a crossroads: the health care sector is rife with inefficiencies, erratic quality, unequal access, and sky-high costs, complex problems which call for innovative solutions. And yet, according to our content...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Workforce, Innovation, Business of Health Care

Health Affairs’ February Issue: Biomedical Innovation

The February issue of Health Affairs includes a number of studies examining issues pertaining to biomedical innovation. Some of the subjects covered: how declining economic returns for new drugs may affect future investments, the changing landscape of...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2015 1:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Medicare, Pharma, Innovation, Technology, Biotech, Science and Health, Research, HA_BiomedInnovation

The Puzzle Of Antibiotic Innovation

Editor's note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...

Published Tue, Feb 03 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Access, Pharma, Global Health, Innovation, Science and Health, Research

Medicare Is More Efficient Than Private Insurance

Editor’s note: Robert B. Wohl, B.A., Wesleyan 2011, assisted Diane Archer in the preparation of this response to an earlier Health Affairs Blog “Contributing Voices” post by John Goodman and Thomas Saving. See also Austin Frakt’s...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2011 7:08 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality

Insurance Exchanges: Lessons From The Life And Death Of Pac Advantage

Editor’s Note: For more on insurance exchanges, see today’s post by Roger Collier and Tuesday’s post by Steve Lieberman and Kristin Drobac, as well as Tim Jost’s earlier analyses (here and here) of proposed rules concerning exchanges...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2011 9:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Common Sense And Malpractice Reform

Having both medical and law degrees typecasts me. New acquaintances ask if I have ever sued myself. Within the health policy community, colleagues assume I study medical malpractice. So I have let it become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I worked on medical...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 12:20 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Politics, Malpractice Liability Reform, Physicians, Health Care Costs, States, Quality

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