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July Health Affairs: The Impact Of Health Reform

The new health reform law charges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with testing new payment and delivery models intended to improve health outcomes and restrain costs. But as the July issue of Health Affairs, published yesterday...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 8:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Payment, Health IT, Chronic Care, Medicare, Coverage, Medicaid, Children, Technology

Predicting ACO Formation: Two Studies With More In Common Than It Might Seem

At a time when policy makers, providers and payers are all trying to make high stakes decisions about how respond to the proliferation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), divergent research findings might feel as welcome as rain on the fourth of...

Published Tue, Oct 22 2013 11:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Disparities

Medicare Accountable Care Organization Results For 2015: The Journey To Better Quality And Lower Costs Continues

On August 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the quality and financial results for the ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and the Pioneer ACO Model during 2015. Overall, 31 percent of the MSSP...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2016 10:29 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Organization and Delivery, Accountable Care Organizations, ACOs, MSSP, shared savings

Part Of The Solution: Next Steps In Medication Adherence Policy

We’ve heard a lot of encouraging words lately about how the improved use of medications is an essential but overlooked pathway to improved patient outcomes and sustainable health care costs. Consider these three signposts. . The Congressional Budget Office...

Published Fri, Oct 04 2013 11:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Pharma, Quality

Imaging Technology Adoption: The Impact Of Self-Referral

Editor’s Note: In October 2009, Health Affairs published two papers on factors driving imaging utilization. One paper, by Jacqueline Baras and Laurence Baker, analyzes the relationship between MRI supply and care for fee-for-service Medicare patients...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 12:22 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals, Innovation, Technology

Routine Testing for HIV: Ten Years On

Editor’s note: When we read Sharon Long and colleagues’ retrospective on Massachusetts health reform at 10 years in the September issue of Health Affairs we were reminded just what a busy year 2006 was for health policy writ large (in addition to...

Published Fri, Sep 16 2016 7:36 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, HIV/AIDS, HIV testing, 2006

Moving Toward a Robust Comparative Effectiveness Research Enterprise

Editor’s Note: Most health policy analysts believe that better evidence about quality and value, obtained through comparative effectiveness research (CER), can drive better clinical decision making and could potentially slow the rate of growth in health...

Published Tue, Mar 30 2010 11:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness, Technology, Effectiveness

The ACA Transformed Medicaid Enrollment Processes. Rolling Them Back Would Wreak Havoc.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, is most widely known for strengthening consumer protections in private insurance and creating new pathways to affordable coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces and Medicaid. Less familiar is another...

Published Wed, Jan 04 2017 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, States, Following the ACA, Medicaid and CHIP, MAGI, Enrollment, ACA repeal and replace

Implementing Health Reform: Program Integrity Amendments And Other Issues

Although the nearly three-week government shutdown did real damage to the nation’s economy, it did have its bright side. For three weeks those of us who scan the Federal Register for new regulatory issuances had time to catch up on our other work, even...

Published Fri, Oct 25 2013 12:11 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, States, Health Law, Technology

Health Reform Implementation Dominates HA Blog July Top Ten

As the October 1 start of open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act's exchanges draws near, ACA implementation is on people's minds. That's reflected in the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for July, which features several posts...

Published Mon, Aug 12 2013 9:50 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Prevention, Policy, Insurance, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Coverage, Innovation

Open Enrollment Season Marks The Beginning (Not The End) Of Exchange Enrollment

The concern and criticisms regarding the federal healthcare.gov website problems are well deserved. It is very important that they be addressed, and that the convenient shopping and enrollment promised for Health Benefit Marketplace (exchange) coverage...

Published Tue, Nov 26 2013 8:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: The Latest Affordable Care Act Coverage Numbers

On February 17, 2014, the White House announced that 8 million Americans have signed up for private health insurance coverage through the health insurance marketplaces, or exchanges. This significantly exceeds the White House’s original goal of 7 million...

Published Thu, Apr 17 2014 9:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Coverage, Pharma, Medicaid, Children, Mental Health, Substance Abuse

Are Higher-Value Care Models Replicable?

Editor’s Note: In addition to Arnold Milstein and Pranav Kothari (pictures and bios above), coauthors of this post include Rushika Fernandopulle MD, MPP, of Harvard Medical School and Renaissance Health in Boston, and Theresa Helle of the Boeing...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 1:24 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Quality

Implementing Health Reform: The 2015 Health Insurance Marketplace Blueprints And More ACA News

In its final 2015 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) noted that state applications to operate exchanges for 2015 would be due on June 30, 2014. On March 7, 2014, CMS released at its Paperwork...

Published Fri, Mar 14 2014 12:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Higher Physician Spending In U.S. Driven By Fees, Not Practice Costs

Research appearing in the newly released September issue of Health Affairs shows that physicians in the United States are paid more per service than doctors in other countries—in some cases double. There is also a far bigger gap between fees paid for...

Published Thu, Sep 08 2011 4:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Europe

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