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A Masterful Health Wonk Review

At his blog Wright on Health, Brad Wright presents a “Masterful” edition of the Health Wonk Review. Celebrating the triumph of fellow University of Georgia grad Bubba Watson, Brad ties each health policy blog post to a hole on the famed course...

Published Mon, Apr 16 2012 10:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog, Consumers, Quality

Exhibit Of The Month: Virtual Visits On The Rise

At Health Affairs Blog, we’re excited to introduce a new regular feature. Each month, Health Affairs editors will review all the tables, charts, graphs and maps that have run in the latest print edition of the journal. After deliberating in a dark, but...

Published Thu, Feb 27 2014 12:39 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Workforce, Access, Technology, Connected Health

Why Are Cancer Drugs Commonly The Target Of Schemes To Extend Patent Exclusivity?

The makers of branded pharmaceuticals have devised numerous ways to extend patent exclusivity for lucrative products in the United States. In June, the Supreme Court gave the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) clear authority to investigate and prosecute...

Published Wed, Dec 04 2013 12:47 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Three Most-Read GrantWatch Blog Posts during February 2011

Below, we list the three most-read posts of the month. Take a look in case you missed one of these when the original tweet or e-alert was sent out. 1. “Update on What Foundations Have Been Doing in Oral Health Care” (Jan. 27, 2011). Read about the efforts...

Published Mon, Mar 07 2011 12:35 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Primary Care, Children, Nurses, Obesity, GrantWatch, Health Professions, Health Disparities, Oral Health, Social Media

The Culture Of Data Sharing Has To Change

While the role of data and data sharing and its significance in transforming our nation’s health care system is sometimes overlooked, the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) is taking steps to raise awareness of this crucial aspect...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2016 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Quality, Hospitals, Big Data, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Health Professionals, ACOs

Manufacturers Of Biosimilar Drugs Sit Out The ‘Patent Dance’

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Monday, January 23rd, 2017. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...

Published Fri, Mar 10 2017 7:12 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Drugs and Medical Technology, The Health Law Year in P/Review, intellectual property, biosimilars, Drugs and Medical Innovation, patents, Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act

Unpacking The Sanders Medicare-For-All Bill

On September 13, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)—with 16 Democratic cosponsors—released the Medicare-For-All Act of 2017 , intended to transition the American health care system to a single-payer system. In addition to the bill text, Senator...

Published Thu, Sep 14 2017 8:11 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, single payer, Bernie Sanders

Struggling To Stabilize: 3Rs Litigation And The Future Of The ACA Exchanges

Six years after passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the individual and small-group insurance markets—the markets that the ACA remade—are still having growing pains. Health insurers have endured large losses and a number of ACA-created...

Published Mon, Aug 01 2016 8:55 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, ACA Marketplace, reinsurance, risk adjustment, risk corridor program, Republicans, risk corridor payments, Tucker Act

How Health Care And Community-Based Human Services Organizations Are Partnering for Better Health Outcomes

While the headlines focus on the latest twists and turns of health care politics and policies, a tectonic shift is happening in America’s approach to health, with innovations that show promise in terms of better outcomes, better quality of care, and lower...

Published Thu, Jun 29 2017 10:44 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, community-based organizations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, human services organizations, Center for Health Care Strategies

Medicaid: What Happens Now?

With public attention completely focused on the wild effort to reach closure on the private health insurance provisions of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) (H.R. 1628), it was easy to overlook (at least for a moment) the extraordinary nature of its...

Published Wed, May 17 2017 5:48 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Medicaid expansion, ACA repeal and replace, AHCA, Medicaid per capita cap, Medicaid block grants, medicaid work requirement, EPSDT

Transgender Health Equity: Patients Say Providers Lack Expertise And Understanding Of Transgender Health Needs

For the past five years, Massachusetts has mandated that insurers provide coverage for medical services related to the health of transgender people, including gender-affirming medical services. But it was not clear how well the mandate was working or...

Published Wed, Mar 29 2017 7:18 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Featured, health equity, transgender discrimination, transgender rights

Long Term Care Post Leads HA Blog November Most-Read List

Now that the Obama Administration has suspended implementation of the CLASS Act, what long-term care financing system should take its place? That is the question that Gloria Eldridge and Joanne Lynn address in the most-read Health Affairs Blog post for...

Published Mon, Dec 05 2011 10:18 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Blog, Consumers, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Long-Term Care

Implementing Health Reform: Open Enrollment Progress For 2015

On December 30, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released several reports on enrollment numbers covering the second marketplace enrollment period to date. It released its first monthly ASPE (Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation...

Published Wed, Dec 31 2014 10:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, States, Coverage

Appeals Panels Affirm Injunction Against Fixed Indemnity Regulation, Turn Back Challenge To ‘Administrative Fix’

On July 1, the D.C. Circuit decided two appeals challenging aspects of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, accepting one challenge and rejecting the other. In Central United Life v. Burwell , a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of...

Published Sun, Jul 03 2016 12:48 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA litigation, administrative fix, West Virginia, fixed indemnity insurance, excepted benefits, standing

Obama Administration Threads Needle In Risk Corridor Case Brief

Implementing Health Reform. The risk corridor program is one of the Affordable Care Act’s three premium stabilization programs. It was modeled after the Medicare Part D prescription drug program’s successful risk corridor program, which has been in operation...

Published Mon, Jun 27 2016 6:50 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, CMS, reenrollment, risk corridor program, Tucker Act

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