Health Affairs

HA Blog August Top-Ten List Headed By Discussion Of Exchange Premium Variation

A look at the eye-opening variation in premiums in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces tops the Health Affairs Blog most-read list for August. Joel Ario, Adam Block, and Ian Spatz examine the possible factors behind this variation...

Published Wed, Sep 04 2013 12:29 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Prevention, Insurance, Payment, States, Quality, Hospitals, Technology

Open Payments: Early Impact And The Next Wave Of Reform

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, Mar 03 2015 11:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Pharma, Hospitals, Business of Health Care, Big Data

Health Wonk Review Valentine’s Edition

The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review has been posted at the Colorado Long Term Care Insider. Jay Norris offers a collection of some of the best in recent health policy blogging, including Jessie Gruman’s Health Affairs Blog post, “A...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2011 12:08 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

Assuring Post-Acute Care Treatment for Medicare Beneficiaries

A federal judge in Vermont may soon act to approve a proposed settlement in a national class action suit, Jimmo v. Sebelius . In the case, the plaintiffs argue that Medicare contractors and administrative officials have been denying nursing and therapy...

Published Wed, Oct 31 2012 8:01 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Access, Quality, Health Law

Safety Net Challenges In Delivering Accountable Care

Editor's note: In addition to Stephen Shortell (photo and linked bio above), this post is coauthored by Sarah Weinberger, a graduate student at UC Berkeley; Matt Chayt, an associate at Nossaman LLP; and Ann Marie Marciarille, a visiting assistant...

Published Thu, Nov 01 2012 7:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, States, Workforce, Quality, Hospitals, Disparities, Medicaid, Mental Health

The Accidental Administrative Law Of Policymaking In The Medicare Program

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts stemming from presentations given at “ The Law of Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty ,” a conference held at Yale Law School on November 6 and 7. When Congress establishes a new regulatory program...

Published Thu, Dec 11 2014 9:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid, Health Law

When Epidemiology Goes Astray: Valuing Cancer Care In The United States And Europe

In a recent Health Affairs paper, we documented that the United States has a significant survival advantage over much of Europe when it comes to cancer: 1.8 years for those diagnosed during our study window. Furthermore, we showed over a 17-year period...

Published Mon, May 14 2012 10:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Narrative Matters: Providing Dental Care In Remote Corners Of Alaska

In the November Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay , one of the nation's few dental therapists explains why his profession could help address dental workforce shortages in the United States. Conan Murat's article is freely available to all...

Published Thu, Nov 21 2013 1:17 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Workforce, Access, Personal Experience

Implementing Health Reform: The Risk Pool, Contraceptive Coverage Litigation, And Other Developments

New Year’s Eve festivities did not interrupt the steady flow of Affordable Care Act developments. First, Marilyn Tavenner, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator, announced on December 31, 2013, that 2.1 million Americans were now signed...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2014 11:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Insurance, States, Coverage, Access, Hospitals, Disparities, Health Law

Immigration And The ACA: Will Differing State Systems Offer A Controlled Experiment In Extending Coverage To Immigrants?

Immigration and health care reform remain controversial issues, and their intersection remains fraught with complexities. Immigration reform that would provide a pathway to legalization for the 11-12 million unauthorized immigrants in the country is stalled...

Published Wed, May 07 2014 7:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Disparities, Children

HA Blog’s July Top-Ten List Features Posts On Supreme Court Decision

Several posts on the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act decision and its aftermath are included in July’s list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts. Joe Antos’ look at what comes next tops the list, followed by posts by Alice Noble...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2012 12:56 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: State-Based, Partnership, And Federally Facilitated Exchanges

On May 16, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services moved three steps closer to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, which will happen on January 1, 2014. First, HHS announced the award of 5 new level 1...

Published Wed, May 16 2012 7:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Quality, Medicaid

ACA Round-Up: Bipartisan Market Stabilization Efforts Stall; Iowa 1332 Waiver Application Advances; And More

On September 19, 2017, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, announced that after two weeks of bipartisan hearings on individual market stabilization, Republicans and Democrats “have...

Published Wed, Sep 20 2017 10:40 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, 1332 waivers, ACA repeal and replace, market stabilization, health plan star ratings, Iowa, Graham-Cassidy

Is The Recent Health Care Spending Growth Slowdown Sustainable Over The Long Term?

Following the third straight year in which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated the growth in national health expenditures to be a record-low 3.9 percent, considerable speculation on the causes of slower spending growth has come from...

Published Tue, May 07 2013 5:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid, Technology, Effectiveness

Health Affairs’ August Issue: Hospital Quality And Care

The August issue of Health Affairs contains a cluster of articles focusing on hospital quality and care. Other subjects covered in this variety issue: ways state vaccine exemption laws affect disease outbreaks; how states with strong health insurance...

Published Mon, Aug 03 2015 3:27 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Mental Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, super-utilizers, pay-per-performance, vaccination laws, Health Affairs August Issue

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