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An Era Of Precision Medicine And Rapid Learning

At a recent White House event, President Obama presented his proposals for a Precision Medicine Initiative . The key elements include a national research system where 1 million or more volunteers can share their (privacy protected) electronic health records...

Published Fri, Feb 20 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Chronic Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Innovation, Research, Big Data

Implementing Health Reform: Multi-State Plan Program; Benefits And Payment Rule, Letter To Issuers To Follow

Late in the day on February 20, 2015, HHS issued its 476 page final 2016 Benefit and Payment Parameters Rule . It also issued a lengthy final 2016 Letter to Issuers and a fact sheet on the BPP rule . These will govern health insurance coverage and the...

Published Fri, Feb 20 2015 3:40 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again: Consolidating Regulatory Authority Over Food Safety

The fragmented nature of regulatory authority over food in the United States is well known. More than a dozen federal agencies are responsible for the safety of the nation’s food supply. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Agriculture...

Published Mon, Feb 23 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Politics, Quality, Health Law, Environmental Health

State Expectations: Setting The Record Straight In King v. Burwell

On Wednesday, March 4 th , the Supreme Court will hear the latest attack on the Affordable Care Act (ACA): the case King v. Burwell . The King petitioners allege that the Internal Revenue Service overstepped its authority by issuing regulations authorizing...

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

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Coverage, Access, Health Law

New Health Policy Brief: Risk Corridors (Updated)

The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provides an update to an earlier brief on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s risk corridor program, which allows the Department of Health and Human Services...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Law

How Many Americans Will Lose Coverage If The Supreme Court Kills The ACA Tax Credits?

In March, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to hear King v. Burwell , a case that challenges the authority of the federal government to provide tax credits and other financial assistance to people who buy Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage through the...

Published Mon, Mar 02 2015 7:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Coverage, Access, Medicaid, Health Law

Open Payments: Early Impact And The Next Wave Of Reform

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2015 11:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Pharma, Hospitals, Business of Health Care, Big Data

ACO Rule: An Early Step In Transition From Fee-For-Service Medicine

On October 20 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the revised rules for Accountable Care Organizations in Medicare’s Shared Savings Program. The new rules address a number of concerns with earlier proposals, making ACOs more attractive...

Published Wed, Nov 02 2011 9:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Spending, Medicare, Quality

Health Affairs Web Firsts: Primary Care Shortages And Rx Drug Monitoring

Primary care access . With insurance coverage set to expand under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 44 million people live in areas where the projected increase in demand for primary care providers is greater than 5 percent of current baseline supply. Of...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2013 1:21 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, States, Workforce, Access, Pharma

Implementing Health Reform: The Benefit And Payment Parameters Final Rule

On March 1, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services released its final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2014 rule. The rule addresses a grab bag of issues: the risk-adjustment, reinsurance, and risk-corridors premium stabilization...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2013 12:05 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

No Competition: The Price Of A Highly Concentrated Health Care Market

As health care costs swell, the private insurance system that covers most working Americans is in crisis . Americans are paying higher and higher premiums for increasingly threadbare coverage, and employers are getting out of the business of providing...

Published Wed, Mar 06 2013 10:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Hospitals

The Importance Of The Individual Mandate: A Response To Sheils And Haught

When the Lewin Group speaks, people listen. In 2009 Lewin projected that a public plan option could reduce private insurance coverage by two-thirds, a finding that was used to strip the public option from the reform law. Knowing this impact, it sent shivers...

Published Fri, Nov 04 2011 9:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Changes Needed To Fulfill The Potential Of Medicare’s ACO Program

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), Medicare’s main program for accountable care organizations (ACOs), has grown rapidly since it began in 2012. It added 89 new provider organizations earlier this year, bringing the total to over 400 Medicare...

Published Wed, Apr 08 2015 10:23 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Health Care Delivery

The Complex Effects Of The FDA’s Proposal To Regulate Laboratory-Developed Tests

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...

Published Fri, Apr 10 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Pharma, Health Law, Reform, Research, Business of Health Care

Health Affairs Is Pleased To Announce The Redesign And Relaunch Of Health Affairs Blog

With an average of two posts each day and three million page views each year, we have grown beyond the capacity of our original design. For this reason, we are now structuring the Blog around topics -- enabling you, our readers, to more quickly find the...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2015 3:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Once In A Weil, Featured

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