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The Ripple Effects Of Medicaid Expansion

The 19 states that continue to decline federal funding to offer Medicaid coverage to more uninsured residents are missing out on more than just improvements to their uninsured and uncompensated care rates. In fact, the ability of providers in Medicaid...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2016 2:15 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, Medicaid expansion, safety-net clinics

Health Affairs Behavioral Health Briefing Recap

On Tuesday, June 7, 2016, Health Affairs commemorated the release of its June issue, “ Behavioral Health ,” at a forum in Washington, DC that featured authors from the issue discussing the role behavioral health plays in defining the well-being of the...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2016 11:58 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Behavioral Health, Health Affairs events

Health Affairs’ June Issue: Behavioral Health

The June issue of Health Affairs explores the topic of behavioral health, including racial and ethnic disparities in treatment, trends in financing of behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment, the portrayal of mental health issues in the...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2016 1:17 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Behavioral Health, Health Affairs journal

LGBT Protections In Affordable Care Act Section 1557

On May 13, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) issued a historic new rule that codifies nationwide nondiscrimination protections for ***, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in health facilities...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2016 8:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Disparities, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, section 1557, LGBT issues, HHS OCR, transgender rights

New Health Policy Brief: Ambulance Diversion

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) discusses efforts to address ambulance diversion, a controversial strategy for temporarily relieving overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs). According to 2015 data...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Emergency Medicine, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Health Policy Brief, ambulatory care

Got Content? An Innovative Forum Provides Food For Thought

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts related to the Center for Healthcare Management’s 5 th Forum: Learning from each other – Scaling ideas up to the next level , to be held in Berlin, Germany on June 9 and 10, 2016. Please...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2016 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, Health Professionals, Center for Healthcare Management 5th Forum, conferences

Making The Business Case For Investing In Community Health

In recent years, many businesses have put a premium on improving employee health—often through investments in workplace wellness programs, onsite clinics , or the availability of fruit and vegetables on the premises. Ostensibly, these programs are intended...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2016 1:48 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Population Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, health equity, Community Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, culture of health, AcademyHealth, Businesses

Does The Site Of Care Change The Cost Of Care?

Patients like Gay Miller , a North Carolina resident who paid almost $900 more than her typical $60 co-pay for a routine 30-minute echocardiogram, are feeling the angst of increased out-of-pocket (OOP) costs solely attributable to a change in site of...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2016 12:33 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, North Carolina, MedPAC, hospital mergers, hospital outpatient department, hospital consolidation

Does A ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Formulary Policy Make Sense?

Over the last decade, insurers have increasingly used step therapy , or “fail-first,” policies as a strategy to contain pharmaceutical costs. Step therapy requires patients to begin treatment for a medical condition on a typically less expensive drug...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Health Policy Lab, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, Prescription Drugs, step therapy

The U.S. Health Disadvantage And The Role Of Spending

Each week it seems, more evidence emerges regarding the poor health of Americans. We first documented a “U.S. health disadvantage” as chair and study director of the panel on understanding cross-national health differences among high-income countries...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2016 1:00 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Disparities, Europe, Social Determinants of Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, social spending

‘Value Creation’ And ‘Value Shifting’ In Health Care

Corporate executives, the management consultants who advise them, and the financial industry executives who help corporations finance their capital investments tend to believe that whenever their joint work enhances the wealth of a firm’s shareholders...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Population Health, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, Sovaldi, Big Pharma, economics, Turing Pharmaceuticals, drug pricing, Valeant Pharmaceuticals

The Sessions-Cassidy Bill: An ACA Alternative Spelled Out In Legislative Language

On May 23, 2016. Congressman Pete Sessions (R. Texas) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R. La.), introduced the “ Healthcare Accessibility, Empowerment, and Liberty Act of 2016 ,” (HAELA), which with Trumpian exuberance they christened “ the World’s Greatest...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2016 8:36 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, Healthcare Accessibility Empowerment and Liberty Act of 2016, HAELA

Health Affairs Forum: Global Health

Please join us on Tuesday, June 14, when Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will host the next in a series of fora spotlighting the journal’s work in the field of global health and a multi-year partnership with the World Innovation Summit...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2016 5:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, Innovation, Patient Safety, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, cancer care, Health Affairs events, universal health coverage

The State of Play in the ACA Marketplaces

Last week I was interviewed by Dmitri Sotus on WTOP’s “ To Your Health” about the state of competition in the ACA marketplaces. Recent news reports have highlighted rising premiums and plan exit in the ACA marketplaces. United Healthcare has announced...

Published Tue, May 31 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Once In A Weil, Featured, Marketplace premiums, marketplace competition, ACA Marketplaces

CMMI’s New Comprehensive Primary Care Plus: Its Promise And Missed Opportunities

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI, or “the Innovation Center”) recently announced an initiative called Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+). It evolved from the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, which began in 2012 and...

Published Tue, May 31 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Quality, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, CMMI, ACOs, Alternative Payment Models, PCMHs, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

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