Health Affairs

ACO Results And Treating Hepatitis C Most-Read Health Affairs Blog Posts For June

In June, Matthew Petersen and David Muhlestein’s post on the cost and quality implications of the accountable care organization (ACO) model on the health care system was the most-read Health Affairs Blog post. Not too far behind was a post on Medicare...

Published Tue, Jul 15 2014 8:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Quality, Health Law, Health Care Delivery

Narrative Matters: A Chronic Pain Sufferer Navigates The Maze Of Opioid Use

In the July Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay , a woman living with chronic pain tries to manage her condition while maneuvering through the maze of opioid medications. Janice Lynch Schuster’s article is freely available to all readers, or you can...

Published Thu, Jul 17 2014 1:35 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Pharma, Personal Experience, Narrative Matters

Shifting Motivations: Rethinking Primary Care Physician Incentives In Health IT Implementation

Clinician adoption and implementation of health information technology (IT) has increased significantly since the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009. Dedicated efforts and large financial incentives have spurred innovation and motivated progress in many...

Published Mon, Jul 21 2014 9:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Quality, Innovation, Health Care Delivery

Empowering Patients As Partners In Health Care

Recently, the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute brought together 40 patient safety experts — health professionals, patients, advocates, and others — to develop recommendations for how best to engage patients and families in improving...

Published Thu, Jul 24 2014 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Policy, Quality, Personal Experience, Patient Safety, Health Care Delivery

The “Failure” Of Bundled Payment: The Importance Of Consumer Incentives

Bundled payment for orthopedic and spine surgery and other major acute interventions has many attractive features, in principle. But implementation has been difficult in practice. The recent Health Affairs paper by Susan Ridgley and colleagues, and the...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2014 11:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality, Hospitals

Partnership And Progress On The Path To Achieving Millennium Development Goal 6

Editor's note: For more on global health, stay tuned for the upcoming September issue of Health Affairs. In 2000, nearly 200 world leaders came together and agreed on a set of objectives intended to tackle some of the most pressing development challenges...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2014 11:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Global Health, AIDS

State-Based Marketplaces: Leveraging Year-One Lessons To Boost Year-Two Enrollment

In three months, consumers will log onto their state’s health insurance marketplace to investigate their options and enroll in a plan. Already, states are hard at work prepping for the second year of open enrollment, which begins November 15. State marketplaces...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2014 12:31 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Health Affairs Forum: Graduate Medical Education Governance And Financing

Please join us on Wednesday, September 10 , for a Health Affairs forum to discuss, Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation's Health Needs , a recent report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Governance and Financing of...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2014 11:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Medicare, Workforce

A Shotgun Blast At Payment Reform

As I first read the list of papers for this month’s issue of Health Affairs, a thematic volume on payment reform, I had a feeling of déjà vu as I recalled the 2009 meetings of the Senate Finance Committee, which I attended as senior health policy advisor...

Published Tue, Sep 11 2012 7:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending

Rising Executive Compensation At Children’s Hospitals Threatens The Public Trust

Editor’s note: The themes discussed in this post are among those discussed in the new book “Unaccountable,” by Dr. Marty Makary. A video trailer about the book is available here. In addition to Dr. Makary (photo and linked bio above), this blog post is...

Published Fri, Sep 14 2012 9:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Physicians, Quality, Hospitals, Children, Patient Safety

An Evidence-Based Approach To Communicating Health Care Evidence To Patients

It has been 22 years since David M. Eddy—the heart surgeon turned mathematician and health care economist—put the term “evidence-based” into play with a series of articles on practice guidelines for the Journal of the American Medical Association. But...

Published Tue, Sep 25 2012 1:57 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Public Opinion, Physicians, Hospitals, Comparative Effectiveness, Nurses, Effectiveness, Research

Modest Payment Redistribution Means That Hospital Quality Program Is Working, Not Failing

Rachel Werner and R. Adams Dudley’s article on Medicare’s hospital value-based purchasing (VBP) program in the September Health Affairs concludes that the program is likely to have only a small impact on hospital payments. While it is true that relatively...

Published Thu, Sep 27 2012 11:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals

States And Health IT: Upcoming Conference

As mentioned before on this blog, Health Affairs is the official media sponsor for the upcoming 2011 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit, June 21-23 in Dulles, Virginia. If you are interested in the conference but can’t attend in person, you can...

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 1:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health IT, States

Drug Discount Analysis Misses The Mark

Rena Conti and Peter Bach’s analysis of disproportionate share (DSH) hospitals in the 340B drug discount program -- published in the October issue of Health Affairs -- neglects an essential point: compared to non-340B DSH hospitals, 340B DSH hospitals...

Published Wed, Oct 08 2014 12:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Pharma, Hospitals, Disparities

Addressing The Threat Of Antibiotic Resistance: Policy Solutions To Fix A Broken Pipeline

Recently, the White House released a major new national strategy to combat antibiotic resistance. As efforts begin to translate that unprecedented announcement into action, it is critical that any strategy to address resistance contain a plan to ensure...

Published Thu, Nov 06 2014 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Pharma, Research

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