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The State Of Medicaid In New York: Progress And The Road To Value-Based Payments

As states throughout the nation work to change how health care is delivered and paid for, New York is undertaking its largest effort yet to transform the state’s Medicaid health care delivery and payment system through the Delivery System Reform Incentive...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2015 7:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program, New York State

Hospital Community Benefit: How Partnerships Can Support Healthy Communities

With the increased focus on broader determinants of health, health foundations are asked to think and act more expansively and creatively about how to support health. In many ways, public health is getting back to its roots in doing so: the idea that...

Published Thu, Oct 22 2015 1:43 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Hospitals, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Community Development, Healthy Communities, Hospital community benefit

Healthcare.gov Improvements And New Investigative Reports

Implementing Health Reform. On October 23, the House of Representatives passed with a nearly party-line vote of 240 to 189 a budget reconciliation act intended to repeal key provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The terms and import of this bill were...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2015 3:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, open enrollment, ACA Marketplace, social security, budget reconciliation, insurance fraud

CMS Progress Towards Greater Data Transparency

Over time it has become very clear that health care today relies on sharing data to drive improvements in access and care delivery as well as control costs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has embraced the need for greater data transparency...

Published Wed, Jul 31 2013 11:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Innovation, Research

New Health Affairs Issue: Health IT, Payment And Practice Reforms

Health Affairs’ August issue , released today, covers a range of topics, including changes in health care delivery and financing sparked by the rise in health information technology (HIT) adoption. In the United States, progress in health IT adoption...

Published Mon, Aug 05 2013 1:08 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Malpractice Liability Reform, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Pharma, Hospitals, Innovation

Budget Legislation Would Repeal Auto-Enrollment Requirement For Large Employers

Implementing Health Reform. On October 27, 2015, the provisions of the proposed Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 became publicly available. If adopted, this legislation would, among other things, increase caps on discretionary spending for 2016 and 2017...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2015 8:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, nudge provision, section 1511, Department of Labor, auto-enrollment

The Regulatory Burden Of The Priority Review Voucher Program

In a recent interview , an official from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressed concern about the costs to the FDA of the priority review voucher program. The director of the Office of New Drugs said he’s worried the additional priority reviews...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2015 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, FDA, voucher program, priority review

Narrative Matters: Poems By Patients And Consumers

Editor’s note: This spring, Health Affairs held its first ever poetry contest. Three winning poems were published in the journal . We’re also featuring some of our other favorites on the Blog throughout the month of October. You Are A Job You forget that...

Published Thu, Oct 29 2015 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Narrative Matters, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Narrative Matters poetry, patient experience

Eight Rules From The Heart Of Power: How Did Obama Do?

Last fall, David Blumenthal and James Marone published a timely history of the presidential handling of health reform from Theodore Roosevelt onward, called The Heart of Power (see my review in Health Affairs). At the end of the book, they offered eight...

Published Mon, Mar 29 2010 11:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Spending

Implementing Health Reform: Final Rule On Program Integrity: Exchange, SHOP, And Eligibility Appeals

Late on August 28, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services posted its Program Integrity and Exchange, SHOP, and Eligibility Appeals final rule , as well as a fact sheet on the rule. This is the...

Published Thu, Aug 29 2013 5:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Recognition For Tim Jost’s Health Reform Analysis

TweetAs we head into the Labor Day weekend, we wanted to congratulate Health Affairs Contributing Editor and frequent Health Affairs Blog author Timothy Jost for well-deserved recognition he received over the summer. In June, The Hill’s Healthwatch...

Published Fri, Aug 30 2013 11:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Health Law

Moving Forward On Medicaid Reform: Shared Savings In Medicaid, And How To Do It

Editor's note: In addition to Mark McClellan (photo and linked bio above), this post is authored by Keith Fontenot, Sara Bencic, Christine Dang-Vu, and Erica Socker. Fontenot is a visiting scholar at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at...

Published Thu, Sep 05 2013 10:42 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Quality, Medicaid

The Toyota Production System: What Does It Mean, And What Does It Mean For Health Care?

The Toyota Production System (TPS), also known as the Lean management system (Lean), is already helping health care organizations provide high-quality, low-cost care, and it promises to do far more. However, the potential benefits of TPS/Lean are endangered...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, ACOs, taylorism, Lean management, Toyota Production System

Lessons From More Than A Decade In Patient Portals

Many of us look forward to a time when the experience of interacting with our health care providers will be as consumer-friendly and technology-enabled as, for example, using an ATM or Uber. The vision is health care at the touch of a finger — lab...

Published Thu, Apr 07 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Quality, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, triple aim, EHRs, electronic health records, chronic conditions, patient uses of evidence, patient portals

In Rural States Policy Changes To Improve Access To Home Dialysis Are Vital

By its very nature, chronic kidney disease can rob individuals of their independence. It gradually causes a person to lose the ability to filter wastes from the body, and should kidneys fail entirely, a patient must rely on renal replacement therapy Read...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2016 9:40 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Health IT, Quality, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, chronic disease, Telehealth, kidney disease, dialysis, rural health, nephrology

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