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Exhibit Of The Month: California’s Hospital Fair Pricing Act Reduces Amount Paid By Uninsured

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing “ Exhibit of the Month ” series. Readers who’d like to highlight other noteworthy exhibits from the same issue are encouraged to make their pitch in the comments section below. This month’s exhibit, published...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2015 12:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Hospitals, Disparities, Exhibit of the Month

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

Moving Beyond Price-Per-Dose In The Pharmaceutical Industry

The United States has experienced extraordinary gains in treating cardiovascular disease over the last few decades. Statins, introduced in the 1980’s, are an important part of the story. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, heart attacks, and strokes have...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2015 9:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Physicians, Pharma, Quality, Population Health, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, patients, statins, cholesterol, cardiovascular

Several Kansas Foundations Encourage Expansion Of Kansas Medicaid

At the Kansas Health Foundation , after thirty years of grant making, it has become increasingly clear to us that changing policies creates the most change for people. It’s important to ensure that all Kansans have the opportunity to live a healthy life...

Published Thu, Feb 04 2016 12:51 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Coverage, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Kansas

King v. Burwell: A Brief Respite For Obamacare

Most health foundations in states with federally facilitated health insurance marketplaces breathed a collective sigh of relief after the King v. Burwell Supreme Court ruling, which retained the availability of federal subsidies for health insurance coverage...

Published Wed, Jul 08 2015 2:32 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Consumers, Politics, Payment, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Access, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Marketplaces

Linking The Clinical Experience To Community Resources To Address Hunger In Colorado

One in seven U.S. residents struggles to afford food which increases the likelihood of poor diet quality, nutritional deficiencies , chronic diseases , depression, and anxiety . Despite the established link between nutritional deficiencies and disease...

Published Mon, Jul 13 2015 11:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Innovations in Care Delivery, Population Health, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, SDH, SNAP, WIC, clinic-to-community integration, Sandra Stenmark, Hunger Free Colorado, Colorado, Kaiser Permanente

What Is Behind The Post-Recession Bend In The Health Care Cost Curve?

It has been a while since I last had the opportunity to analyze the slowdown in health spending and the extent to which it represents a lasting bend in the cost curve, as opposed to lingering effects of the “Great Recession or other temporary changes...

Published Mon, Mar 23 2015 8:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Consumers, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Health Care Delivery, Dental Care

Against North Carolina’s HB2 Law: Mental Health And Discrimination Cannot Co-Exist

This past May, the board of directors of Grantmakers in Health (GIH) decided to relocate the organization’s 2017 Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy from Charlotte, North Carolina, to another city. This difficult decision was made in light of the...

Published Thu, Aug 04 2016 2:13 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Politics, States, Disparities, Children, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Mental Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, LGBT issues, transgender discrimination

Beyond “To Close Or Not To Close” Rural Hospitals

About 60 million Americans live in rural areas. And almost every health statistic shows they’re falling behind their fellow Americans who live in urban areas. Rural residents are less likely to have health insurance coverage through a job , have lower...

Published Thu, Jul 06 2017 10:41 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Health Care Costs, Workforce, Access, Hospitals, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery, Rural Health Care, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, hospital closures, Texas

Embracing The Role Of Family Caregivers In The U.S. Health System

One of the clear trends emerging from U.S. health reform is the transition from a provider and procedure focused system to one that puts the patient at the center of care. “ Patient-centered care ” is defined as “providing care that is respectful of,...

Published Thu, Sep 08 2016 8:20 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, End-of-Life Care, Aging, Population Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, Long-term Services and Supports, End-of-Life, caregivers, Caregiving

Tracking The Impact Of The Affordable Care Act In Kentucky

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) presents states with an opportunity to tailor the implementation of key health policy approaches intended to increase health insurance coverage and access to timely, high-quality care in a way that fits their populations...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2016 2:02 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Access, Quality, Disparities, Medicaid, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, health outcomes, Affordable Care Act, Kentucky

Good And Bad News For Diabetes Prevention In The Community

The findings from a recent synthesis of the literature about the effectiveness of prevention initiatives focused on reducing the risk of Type 2 diabetes among high-risk populations (people already obese or inactive or diagnosed as having prediabetes)...

Published Wed, Mar 25 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Access, Quality, Disparities, Medicaid, Innovation, Effectiveness, Research

Having A Baby: Media Confusion Over Charges, Costs, And The Benefits Of Insurance

Note: In addition to Marc Berk, Claudia Schur also coauthored this post. Recent discussion about the Affordable Care Act has intensified the media’s interest in the cost of medical care. While as health services researchers we are perhaps in the best...

Published Wed, Aug 06 2014 10:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Cost

On Zika Preparedness And Response, The US Gets A Failing Grade

There are worrying signs that the United States is unprepared to contain a likely Zika virus outbreak this summer. The critical problems are: insufficient resources for mosquito control, surveillance, and health care; highly variable capabilities and...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2016 7:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, Featured, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, WHO, Congress, CDC, Zika virus, Zika, outbreaks, PAHO

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

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