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Paying Providers For Value: The Path Forward

The release of the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Framework White Paper earlier this week is an important milestone in the progress of the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) toward its goal: driving new and innovative health care...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2016 12:54 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, ACOs, patient-centered medical homes, Alternative Payment Models, patient-centered care

Request For Abstracts: Health Affairs Cluster On Health Care Quality In India

Health Affairs is planning to publish a group of papers on the quality of health care in India, which will present research and issues related to policies involved in improving the delivery of health services in that country. Among other topics, we are...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2016 11:28 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, request for abstracts, India, Health Affairs journal

It’s Time To Fix Meaningful Use

With the release of the final rule for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use (MU) of health information technology (IT), and modifications to Stage 2 of MU for 2015 – 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken the unusual step of asking...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2016 9:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Health IT, Medicare, Quality, Featured, Health Policy Lab, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, CMS, EHRs, electronic health records, MACRA, HITECH Act, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

The Battle Plan To Fight Diabetes And Obesity

From time to time, most strategic grant-making organizations review their programmatic priorities, assessing the needs and opportunities in a given area and figuring out what role a foundation could play in it. When the New York State Health Foundation...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2016 3:45 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, States, Quality, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Population Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Featured, Diabetes, Food and Health, New York State, Healthy Communities, vulnerable populations, physical activity

How Much Does Congress Care About Drug Prices? Less Than It Should

Per-capita prescription drug spending in the United States, the highest in the industrialized world, increased by 12.2 percent in 2014. News of rising drug costs has met with public scorn and calls for reform. In an August 2015 poll, nearly three in four...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2016 9:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Health Policy Lab, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Oregon, FDA, Congress, Prescription Drugs, North Carolina, Medicare Part D, Big Pharma, Medicare Modernization Act

Slavitt Addresses Viability Of Health Insurance Marketplaces, And More ACA Developments

Implementing Health Reform. On January 11, 2016 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt gave a major policy address at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2016 11:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, premium tax credits, contraceptive mandate, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, COBRA, special enrollment period, Missouri

Are Provider-Led Health Care Networks Too Big To Fail?

Are provider-led health care networks equipped to function like insurance companies? Do they have the expertise and experience to assess population health risks and costs and to accurately price health insurance products? The answer is no, and the current...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2016 10:45 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, ACOs, physician perspective

Study On Highest-Markup Hospitals Leads The Pack OfHealth Affairs 2015 Top-Ten List

As 2016 begins, Health Affairs has tallied its ten most-read articles for 2015, an annual tradition. The most-read article, by Ge Bai of Washington and Lee University and Gerard Anderson of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, contains...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, Health Affairs journal, most read articles

Vital Signs: A Call To Action On Core Metrics

In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released Vital Signs , a consensus committee report which identifies 15 core measures for assessing the nation’s health. The streamlined core measure set is a critical tool for mitigating measurement burden...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, Institute of Medicine, performance measures, Vital Signs, quality performance measures

Obama Vetoes ACA Repeal, And Other Health Reform Developments

Implementing Health Reform. On January 8, 2016, President Obama to the surprise of no one vetoed HR 3762, the budget reconciliation act that sought to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In his veto message , the President laid out the potential consequences...

Published Sat, Jan 09 2016 2:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA repeal, worlplace wellness programs, ACA tax provisions

Expanding The Meaning Of Community Health Improvement Under Tax-Exempt Hospital Policy

Editor’s note: Health Affairs will also publish a health policy brief on Nonprofit Hospitals’ Community Benefit Requirements in early 2016. The requirement that nonprofit hospitals earn their tax-exempt status by benefiting their communities is...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2016 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Hospitals, Innovations in Care Delivery, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Community Health Centers, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, IRS, Trinity Health, nonprofit hospitals

ASPE Releases Enrollment Data From Healthcare.gov And State-Based Marketplaces

Implementing Health Reform. On January 7, 2016 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Evaluation and Planning (ASPE) released data on marketplace enrollment for both the states that used the Healthcare.gov enrollment...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2016 8:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, healthcare.gov, open enrollment, Minorities

Oral Health, Mental Health, Opioid Addiction, & More: Foundation Blogs Round-Up

Oral Health “Mission Possible: Using HIT to Integrate Dental and Medical Care,” by Colin Reusch of Children’s Dental Health Project , December 16, on the Connecticut Health Foundation’s blog. Reusch comments that electronic health records systems that...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2016 5:16 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Policy, Health IT, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Mental Health, Oral Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW, Maine, HIV/AIDS, Smoking Prevention, Opioid Addiction, tobacco, Police

HHS And CVS Health Partner To Promote Consumer-Centered Preventive Services

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) and CVS Health recently formed a public-private partnership. This partnership aims to increase awareness of the availability of convenient...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2016 10:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Primary Care, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Health Professionals, HHS, preventative care, ODPHP, Minute Clinic, retail clinics, Healthfinder.gov, CVS Health

Federal District Judge Dismisses Ohio Lawsuit Challenging The ACA

Implementing Health Reform. On January 5, 2016, another Affordable Care Act (ACA) lawsuit bit the dust when Judge Algenon Marbley of the federal district court for the Southern District of Ohio dismissed Ohio v. United States . The State of Ohio, four...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2016 7:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, open enrollment, Supreme Court, Ohio, ACA lawsuit

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