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When Health Policy Gets Personal

Like most Health Affairs readers, I spend large parts of my day reading about, thinking about, and advocating for changes to health care. The flaws with our system are beyond obvious by now: access can be limited or nonexistent; health care costs too...

Published Mon, Mar 21 2016 9:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Primary Care, Quality, Featured, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, value based care, fee-for-service, patient experience, patient-centered care, electronic medical record

It’s Time To Restore A Sense Of Mission To Mental Health

In 1940, when the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health was born, the set of questions and challenges facing the foundation and its allies were catastrophic in scale. The world was going to war. The nation was only just beginning to recover from an economic...

Published Tue, May 03 2016 12:05 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Mental Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, violence, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, wellness

New Findings About The ACA’s Impact On Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, some of its critics have predicted that businesses would discontinue offering employer-sponsored health insurance, moving employees into the individual Marketplaces. If widespread dropping of employer...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2014 9:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Saving Grady: Reflections On Kate Neuhausen’s Narrative Matters Essay

In the past 12 years, several of our nation’s most storied public hospitals have closed, including DC General (2001), New Orleans’s Charity Hospital (2005), and Martin Luther King, Jr. hospital in Los Angeles (2007). When Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital...

Published Mon, Jun 10 2013 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Politics, Physicians, Hospitals, Disparities, Medicaid, Personal Experience, Nurses

A State-Based Strategy For Expanding Primary Care Residency

As the health care system looks to improve overall health and reduce unnecessary spending, primary care physicians become increasingly critical. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) recognizes that primary care clinicians have the potential to “ bend the cost...

Published Fri, Jul 31 2015 10:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Hospitals, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, GME, New Mexico, Charlie Alfero, Arthur Kaufman, primary care shortage, Federally Qualified Health Center

Health Care Spending: What’s In Store?

In the May issue of Health Affairs , two teams of Harvard researcher s asserted that the recent slowdown in health care spending could be the beginning of a trend that will lead to decreased health care costs. Their optimism is sharply at odds with the...

Published Tue, Jul 16 2013 10:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Spending, Innovation

Request For Abstracts: Health Affairs Health Care And Medical Innovation Theme Issue

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on health care and medical innovation in early-2015. The issue will span the fields of medical technology and also cover public policy and private sector innovations that promote improvements in the delivery of...

Published Thu, Jun 05 2014 10:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Quality, Cost, Innovation, Technology, Effectiveness, Health Care Delivery

What Lies Ahead For US Hospitals? May Health Affairs Explores Post-Recession And ACA Environments

Health Affairs’ May issue examines a number of concerns facing US hospitals in the wake of the recession and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Several papers also analyze trends in US health care spending. Several of the authors of articles...

Published Mon, May 05 2014 1:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Spending, Medicare, Hospitals, Disparities, Medicaid, Emergency Medicine

Projected Slow Growth In 2013 Health Spending Ahead Of Future Increases

Insurance Coverage, Population Aging, and Economic Growth Are Main Drivers of Projected Future Health Spending Increases New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project a slow 3.6 percent...

Published Wed, Sep 03 2014 1:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

New Policy Brief Explores Insurance Market Reforms

Congress is debating provisions of health reform bills that would considerably revamp segments of the private health insurance market. Focused on health insurance for individuals and small businesses, the changes would end the commonplace practice in...

Published Thu, Oct 22 2009 10:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance

Implementing Health Reform: Ryan White Third-Party Payments, 2015 Letter To Issuers, And Other ACA Developments

On March 14, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services released a flood of regulations, proposed regulations, and guidance addressing a host of Affordable Care Act implementation issues. From all indications, HHS has cleared the decks of all the...

Published Sat, Mar 15 2014 12:59 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Access, Pharma, Disparities, AIDS, Mental Health, Substance Abuse

Positive Results For 2012 Physician Quality Reporting System And eRx Program

In April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2012 Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Experience Report , showing a significant increase in participation in two programs that allow eligible...

Published Thu, Jul 17 2014 10:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Medicare, Pharma, Quality, Medicaid

New Health Policy Brief: Reenrollment

This year open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) began on November 15, allowing new customers to sign up for health insurance. Open enrollment also provided current policyholders the chance to change plans and request a redetermination on...

Published Mon, Dec 22 2014 8:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Coverage, Health Law

Price Transparency: Removing The Blindfold

Shopping for health care is like shopping blindfolded in Macy’s , says noted health care economist Uwe Reinhardt -- consumers don’t know what they are buying or how much it will cost until they have paid and gone home. Moreover, consumers are not the...

Published Wed, Mar 11 2015 6:42 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Payment, Health Care Costs, Competition, Business of Health Care, Big Data

Implementing Health Reform: Preliminary 2015 Enrollment Numbers; Guidances

As probably every reader of this blog knows by now, the Department of Health and Human Services released preliminary totals for plan selection for the 2015 open enrollment period on February 18, 2015. Over 1 million individuals enrolled through the federally...

Published Wed, Feb 18 2015 9:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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