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The Transformation Of Medical Education From Choosing More To Choosing Wisely
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The $879 Billion Footnote — And The Financing Path To ACA Repeal
The November 3 election of Matt Bevin as governor of Kentucky will provide an important indication of the seriousness of Republican intentions to undermine and repeal the health insurance expansions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Early in Bevin’s campaign...
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Loan Fund Helps Safety-Net Providers Grow And Innovate
During a period of increasing concern about widening economic inequality, the community development finance sector has grown to channel nearly $3 billion of capital to high-need communities in the United States. Health care in low-income communities is...
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Taking Stock Of Choosing Wisely
Since its launch in 2012, the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely campaign has helped create conversations among clinicians and patients—both in the U.S. and abroad—about unnecessary care, particularly where significant risks of a test or treatment...
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Interpreting New Data On Health Care Spending Growth
Health care spending growth is an important issue, especially since health care spending accounted for 17.5 percent of GDP in 2014. Health care spending growth slowed significantly during, and immediately following, the recession years. Between 2009 and...
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Health Affairs Web First: National Health Spending Growth Accelerates In 2014
A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that in 2014, health care spending in the United States grew at a rate of 5.3 percent to $3.0 trillion, or $9,523 per person. The previous...
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CMS Finds Exchange Plans Don’t Measure Up To CHIP And Other ACA Developments
Implementing Health Reform. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) required the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by April 1, 2015 to review the benefits and cost-sharing in qualified health plans (QHPs) and certify that those plans offer benefits...
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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...
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Tue, Dec 01 2015 9:26 AM
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Independence—It’s What Older People Want
We already know what older people want. A study from the National Conference of State Legislatures and AARP , as well as other studies, confirm, time and again, that the vast majority of us want to live in our homes and communities as we age, and, if...
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Mon, Nov 30 2015 10:15 AM
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Clinician-Led Stewardship To Curb Medical Excess
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) perspective, Durand and colleagues propose “medical-imaging stewardship.” They believe that imaging can be more appropriately used through “provider-led imaging stewardship,” based on the model of antimicrobial...
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Narrative Matters: Bearing Fruit: The Fight For The FDA’s Food Safety Reforms
A food safety advocate recounts one long road to the passage of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011. Shelley A. Hearne’s article is freely available to all readers, or you can listen to the podcast . Don’t forget to visit the free Narrative...
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Wed, Nov 25 2015 7:45 AM
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A Short Holiday Reading List: Latinos And Health Insurance, The Passing Of Rick Cohen, And More
GrantWatch knows that some of its readers may find themselves with a little downtime later this week, perhaps waiting for the turkey to roast or stuck at the airport. To pass the time, you might check out a few links to philanthropy content—including...
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Health Policy Brief: Bundled Payments For Care Improvement Initiative
A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) describes the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, four new payment models being tested by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to...
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Addressing Tobacco And Secondhand Smoke Exposure In Maternal And Child Survival Programs
Ending preventable child and maternal deaths (EPCMD) by 2035 is one of US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) three global health priorities, along with creating an AIDS-Free Generation and protecting communities from infectious diseases. In...
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From The Archives: Pharmaceutical Pricing
Welcome to “ From the Archives ,” a Health Affairs Blog series, where we take a timely topic and delve into the literature and history, from a Health Affairs angle, of course. Harvoni, Sovaldi , Repatha , Daraprim . Four drugs that have made news for...
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Tue, Nov 24 2015 6:38 AM
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‘Growth Clouds’ On The Horizon For Health Spending?
I was honored to work with the National Health Expenditures (NHE) Team in the CMS Office of the Actuary throughout 1995-2012, and I am honored again to have the opportunity to provide some thoughts on long-range spending trends in the U.S. Many health...
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Mon, Nov 23 2015 10:43 AM
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