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How Do You Measure The Health Of Health Care Markets?

We are increasingly aware of the tremendous geographical variation in health care—in utilization, prices, and the growing role of local market power that arises from consolidation. The idea behind the Healthy Marketplace Index , supported by the Robert...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2015 1:30 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Competition, Hospitals, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Population Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, data, utilization, claims data, health care markets, prices
Reminder: Health Affairs Briefing: Financing Long-Term Services And Supports

About half of all older Americans will have a high level of need for help with everyday activities (walking, eating, getting out of bed, etc.). Oftentimes, the care and cost burdens fall on individuals and their families due to a lack of affordable, accessible...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2015 1:10 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Long-term Services and Supports
Maryland’s Progress On The Path To The Triple Aim

Nearly 18 months ago, in January 2014, I wrote in this publication about a historic agreement between the State of Maryland and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that, for the first time on a statewide level, provided a framework that...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2015 10:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, triple aim, value based care, CMS, Maryland, readmissions, Maryland Hospital Association, cost reduction programs
Health Affairs Web First: For US Hospitals, A Mixed Report In Electronic Health Record Adoption

For the past four years, US hospitals participating in the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Incentive Program through Medicare and Medicaid have been eligible for financial incentives if they met meaningful-use criteria. This year, however, hospitals...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2015 1:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Hospitals, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, EHRs, Web First, meaningful-use criteria
To Understand Climbing Death Rates Among Whites, Look To Women Of Childbearing Age

The news that mortality is increasing among middle-aged white Americans spread like wildfire last week (see here and here and here ) thanks to a study by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, who recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics. As researchers who study...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2015 11:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Women's Health, low-income women, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, mortality rates, safety net programs
Trade, Health, And Tobacco Exceptionalism: The TPP Tobacco Carve-Out

Last Thursday the White House notified Congress of its intent to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade agreement reached in October between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries, not including China. The notification and release of...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2015 8:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, World Health Organization, tobacco, investor-state dispute systems, free-trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Essential Health Benefit Benchmarks Released; Reductions In Uninsurance

Implementing Health Reform. On November 9, 2015, the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) released the final list of Essential Health Benefit (EHB) benchmark plans for 2017. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), all non-grandfathered...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2015 5:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, open enrollment, Essential Health Benefits, Benchmark plans
Reimagining How The Safety Net Provides Treatment For People Living With HIV

At an individual patient level, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides a number of straightforward benefits for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH). Many previously uninsured Americans now have access to coverage under the law’s Medicaid expansion and...

Published Mon, Nov 09 2015 10:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, Quality, Innovations in Care Delivery, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Long-term Services and Supports, HIV/AIDS, Medicaid expansion, pre-existing conditions, Virginia
Health Affairs Food & Health Briefing Recap

On Thursday, November 5, 2015, Health Affairs commemorated the release of its November issue, “ Food & Health ,” at a forum in Washington, DC, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, that featured authors from the issue and panels covering...

Published Mon, Nov 09 2015 8:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, RWJF, Food and Health, Health Affairs events
Supreme Court To Review Contraceptive Coverage Accommodation For Religious Groups

Implementing Health Reform. On November 6, 2015, the Supreme Court agreed to review the accommodation that the government has offered nonprofit religious organizations to excuse them from complying with a regulatory requirement that they provide contraceptive...

Published Fri, Nov 06 2015 5:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, ACA litigation, contraceptive coverage, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, First Amendment, church plans, Preventive Services Mandate
Marketing The Marketplaces

The third open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces has begun, marking an important opportunity to build on gains in coverage. Close to 10 million Americans purchased coverage last year through HealthCare.gov or a state marketplace...

Published Fri, Nov 06 2015 7:45 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Population Health, Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, open enrollment, ACA Marketplace, culture of health, outreach
Health Affairs Briefing: Financing Long-Term Services And Supports

About half of all older Americans will have a high level of need for help with everyday activities (walking, eating, getting out of bed, etc.). Oftentimes, the care and cost burdens fall on individuals and their families due to a lack of affordable, accessible...

Published Thu, Nov 05 2015 1:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Long-term Services and Supports
Live Well, Die Well: Thoughts On The Best Care Possible Through The End of Life

We as a society are reluctant to discuss end-of-life issues—that was the premise of a presentation by Ira Byock , a leading palliative care physician, at an October 29 forum in Spokane, Washington. Byock contends that Americans plan for every life milestone...

Published Thu, Nov 05 2015 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Medicare, Quality, End-of-Life Care, Aging, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, health care professionals
When Are Laws Strictly Enforced? Criminal Justice, Housing Quality, And Public Health

At the end of a summer punctuated by media coverage of the deaths of African-American men and women at the hands of law enforcement, I passed a sign on the highway that struck me as ironic. The sign simply read: Laws Strictly Enforced . The sign was presumably...

Published Thu, Nov 05 2015 10:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Long-term Services and Supports, asthma, safe housing laws, public housing, broken windows policing
Medicare ACOs Continue To Show Care Improvements — And More Savings Are Possible

On August 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released financial and quality performance data for its accountable care organization (ACO) programs, including results from the third performance year (PY3) of the Pioneer ACO Program...

Published Wed, Nov 04 2015 11:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, ACOs, fee-for-service, MSSP, Pioneer ACOs, Medicare Shared Savings Program, benchmarks, upside risk, two-sided risk, downside risk

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How Do You Measure The Health Of Health Care Markets?

Reminder: Health Affairs Briefing: Financing Long-Term Services And Supports

Maryland’s Progress On The Path To The Triple Aim

Health Affairs Web First: For US Hospitals, A Mixed Report In Electronic Health Record Adoption

To Understand Climbing Death Rates Among Whites, Look To Women Of Childbearing Age

Trade, Health, And Tobacco Exceptionalism: The TPP Tobacco Carve-Out

Essential Health Benefit Benchmarks Released; Reductions In Uninsurance

Reimagining How The Safety Net Provides Treatment For People Living With HIV

Health Affairs Food & Health Briefing Recap

Supreme Court To Review Contraceptive Coverage Accommodation For Religious Groups

Marketing The Marketplaces

Health Affairs Briefing: Financing Long-Term Services And Supports

Live Well, Die Well: Thoughts On The Best Care Possible Through The End of Life

When Are Laws Strictly Enforced? Criminal Justice, Housing Quality, And Public Health

Medicare ACOs Continue To Show Care Improvements — And More Savings Are Possible