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New IOM Report Addresses Growing Complexity Of Health Care

Health Affairs Blog commends to readers today’s newly released Institute of Medicine report, “Best Care At Lower Cost: The Path To Continuously Learning Health Care In America.” The report states that “achieving a learning health care system – one in...

Published Thu, Sep 06 2012 7:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Spending, Workforce, Quality, Science and Health

Implementing Health Reform: New Effectuated Enrollment Data And Contraceptive Mandate Update

On September 8, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its second quarter 2015 effectuated enrollment data for the federal and state marketplaces. As of June 30, 2015, 9.9 million had effectuated marketplace coverage, 7.2...

Published Tue, Sep 08 2015 2:21 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Coverage, Population Health, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, premium tax credits, contraceptive mandate, Enrollment, Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Narrative Matters: Child Welfare In Indian Country

In the December Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, a member of the Seneca Nation and a Lakota youth call for equitable child welfare for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Terry Cross' article is freely available to all readers, or you can...

Published Wed, Dec 24 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Personal Experience, Children, Narrative Matters

The Credible Threat Of Consumer Engagement

When making health care choices, is there a relationship between what health care consumers pay and the quality of services they receive? While this has been long debated, a soon-to-be published survey commissioned this year by the California HealthCare...

Published Tue, Oct 04 2011 11:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Health Care Costs, States, Competition, Quality, Hospitals, Long-Term Care

Implementing Health Reform: High Court Won’t Hear Medicaid Case

The nation continues anxiously to await the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell , which will likely be announced late this month. On June 8, 2015, however, the Court quietly announced another important Affordable Care Act decision that should...

Published Tue, Jun 09 2015 6:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Law, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, Maine, Supreme Court, unconstitutional coercion, health insurance exchanges, maintenance of effort

Looking At The Future Of Alzheimer’s Disease Policy

It is time to engage public health in aggressive efforts to address Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias (AD/D) without delay. As I noted in Health Affairs in April 2014, numerous U.S. states are already taking some action. Since then an additional...

Published Tue, Jul 14 2015 7:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Aging, Long-Term Care, Population Health, Health Policy Lab, Costs and Spending, Long-term Services and Supports, Health Policy, Dementia, Alzheimer's, David Hoffman, New York, Chronic Condition

The Revised Medicare ACO Program: More Options … And More Work Ahead

On June 4, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) that will impact all current accountable care organizations (ACOs) as well as those joining the program beginning January...

Published Tue, Jun 16 2015 9:18 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Featured, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Long-term Services and Supports, ACOs, CMS, fee-for-service, MSSP

Protecting The Women’s Health Movement On A Global Scale

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series of blog posts by leaders in health and health care who participated in Spotlight Health from June 25-28, the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival . This year’s theme was Smart Solutions to the World...

Published Mon, Sep 14 2015 7:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Abortion, Spotlight Health, Aspen Ideas Festival, Purvi Patel, Colombia

The Impact Of New Hepatitis C Drugs On National Health Spending

Those who follow Altarum Institute’s monthly health sector briefs and trend reports are well aware that the five-year run of record low growth rates in national health spending (from 2009 through 2013) has come to an end, or at least been interrupted...

Published Mon, Dec 07 2015 8:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Featured, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, hepatitis C, Prescription Drugs, Sovaldi, Harvoni, spending growth

How Might Proposed Payer Mergers Impact State Insurance Markets?

With recent news of the proposed Aetna/Humana , Anthem/Cigna , and Centene/Health Net mergers, a number of stakeholders have raised questions about consolidation’s impact on the competitiveness of health care markets. For these proposed deals, we estimated...

Published Tue, Dec 01 2015 9:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Medicare, Quality, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, insurers, mergers, concentrated markets

Implementing Health Reform: Federal Delays And State Exchange Enrollment

Although the pace of Affordable Care Act rulemaking at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has slowed dramatically since the exchanges launched (sort of) on October 1, 2014, less formal -- indeed very informal -- issuances continue to emerge...

Published Sun, Nov 24 2013 5:18 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Implementing Health Reform: Wraparound Coverage Excepted Benefits And Draft 2016 Letter To Issuers

In December 19, 2014, in what one hopes were their last major regulatory actions before the holidays, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury released a proposed rule on a new excepted benefit for wraparound coverage, while the...

Published Sat, Dec 20 2014 7:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

To Pay For Medicare SGR Repeal, Build On Bipartisan Health Care Policy

Something unexpected is happening in Washington. As most eyes track partisan battles over immigration and the Affordable Care Act, key Congressional committees have been quietly advancing truly bipartisan legislation to strengthen Medicare. Since 2002...

Published Thu, Feb 20 2014 7:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Patient Safety

Assessing A CMS Proposal To Improve Competition Among Medicare Part D Drug Plans

In one provision of its January Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) , for Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage, CMS proposed that it will accept no more than two stand-alone prescription drug plan (PDP) bids from each Part D plan sponsor, starting...

Published Tue, Mar 04 2014 10:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Pharma, Business of Health Care

The Contraceptive Mandate: Public Health Versus Religious Freedom

In addition to Marcia Boumil (photo and bio above), this post is co-authored by Gregory Curfman, the executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. On November 26, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to address the constitutionality of the "contraceptive...

Published Fri, Dec 27 2013 10:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Coverage, Disparities, Health Law

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