Health Affairs

Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Affordability, Not Cost Growth, Is The Policy Challenge

A recent spate of commentaries on the continuing health spending moderation raise an important policy question: If the cost curve is well and truly bent, why are we investing so much of our policy energy on bending it further, when the more pressing problem...

Published Mon, May 07 2012 10:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Pharma, Hospitals, Innovation, Technology

Eradicating Polio: Will We Succeed This Time?

Editor’s Note: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other global health leaders recently launched a new effort to eradicate polio. Below, Scott Barrett comments on the potential rewards and the risks of this new initiative, and in another post...

Published Wed, Feb 16 2011 12:42 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Health Care Costs, Pharma, Global Health

Slowed ACO Growth Leads Health Affairs Blog November Top Ten

With the success or failure of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) having significant implications for the U.S. health care system, David Muhlestein 's post on the slowed growth of ACOs was the most-read post on Health Affairs Blog in November....

Published Tue, Dec 24 2013 10:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Medicare, Health Law, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Business of Health Care

Implementing Health Reform: Affordable Care Act Round-Up

As we reach the end of what has been a very long, exhausting, year for health care reform, one would have hoped that the pace of implementation might slow a little for the holidays. No such luck. December 20 ended the week before Christmas with a number...

Published Mon, Dec 23 2013 6:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Medicaid, Children, Mental Health, Substance Abuse

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

Medicaid Expansion: Driving Innovation In Behavioral Health Integration

Safety-net providers in states that have accepted the federal funding available for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are experiencing a positive ripple effect , where increased insurance coverage rates among patients and thus greater...

Published Tue, Jul 05 2016 10:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Innovations in Care Delivery, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, Behavioral Health, Medicaid expansion, medical-legal partnership, integrated care, safety-net providers, Kentucky, safety-net clinics, nevada

Analysis Of Utilization Rate Declines Leads HA Blog March Top Ten

Mark Grube, Kenneth Kaufman and Robert York’s analysis of the decline in hospital utilization rates leads the Health Affairs Blog most-read list for March. Also on the top-ten list are articles on: the human face of hospital readmissions by Risa Lavizzo...

Published Tue, Apr 09 2013 12:46 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Competition, Coverage, Workforce, Hospitals, Disabilities

Beyond SGR: Aligning The Peanut Butter Of Payment Reform With The Jelly Of Consumer Engagement

Increasingly, payment reform initiatives aim to achieve greater value from the provision of health care services. The emphasis on alternative payment models in the recent bipartisan, legislation reforming Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) physician...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2015 11:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Medicare, Quality, Featured, Payment Policy, SGR, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Payment Reform, legislation

Healthcare.gov Got The Math Wrong For Dependents With Social Security Income And It May Be Costing Families Thousands

Modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) is the methodology adopted by the Affordable Care Act to determine eligibility for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Program (CHIP), and financial assistance in purchasing coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces...

Published Mon, Apr 20 2015 10:08 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, CHIP, Following the ACA, healthcare.gov, MAGI, ACA

Implementing Health Reform: New Guidance On Reenrollment Of 2015 Enrollees

On August 25, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released on its REGTAP website a guidance for insurers on reenrollment of 2015 enrollees through the federally facilitated marketplace (FFM) for 2016. The guidance is quite technical...

Published Wed, Aug 26 2015 9:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, CMS, insurers, QHPs, REGTAP, reenrollment, passive enrollment

Who Authored Obamacare’s Exchanges? King v. Burwell And Justice Kagan’s Law Clerks

Editor's note: Watch Health Affairs Blog for more posts on King v. Burwell and the Supreme Court oral arguments in the case by Tim Jost , Grace-Marie Turner , Sara Rosenbaum , Bill Sage , and others. Despite all the media hubbub and intense scrutiny...

Published Fri, Mar 06 2015 6:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, States, Coverage, Access, Medicaid, Health Law

PEPFAR’s Declining Investment In HIV/AIDS Treatment

Since its inception in 2003, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has saved millions of lives through providing anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR has been essential in moving overall coverage levels...

Published Tue, Nov 29 2011 11:49 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Spending, Global Health, AIDS

What Bipartisan Opportunities Will The Next Congress And President Have To Improve Health Policy?

While ideological divides on U.S. health care policy remain wide, the next Congress and administration will face several key issues that, regardless of the November election outcomes, will require bipartisan collaboration to address. In addition, there...

Published Tue, Oct 11 2016 10:55 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Politics, Medicare, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, Long-term Services and Supports, Congress, Republicans, Democrats

Applying Comparative Effectiveness Research To Individuals: Problems And Approaches

A Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) study shows that surgery is better than medical treatment for a particular cardiac condition. My patient is 78 years old and has complicated diabetes. – does the study apply? Another patient 48 years old and...

Published Tue, Oct 29 2013 7:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Policy, Health IT, Bioethics, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness, Research

Reforming the Research Regulatory System

There is a growing consensus that the regulatory system for research is in need of reform . Established 21 years ago by the Common Rule, it has functioned via a rigorous environment to assure that risk in research is dealt with and transparency maintained...

Published Wed, Apr 24 2013 11:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Bioethics, Hospitals, Comparative Effectiveness, Effectiveness, Research

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