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Reducing Health Care Costs Through Early Intervention On Mental Illnesses

This month’s edition of Health Affairs features an article focusing on patients with high mental health costs — and how they incur 30 percent more costs than other high-cost patients. This research helps to make the increasingly compelling case...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2016 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Mental Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, chronic disease, Congress

Put The ‘Network’ In Measures Of Network Adequacy

According to the Urban Institute more than 11 million people were enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace health plans in 2015. While enrollment numbers tell us how many people are covered, they do not necessarily tell us whether all 11 million...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2016 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, CMS, narrow networks, NPRM, network adequacy

Discovering New Medicines And New Ways To Pay For Them

While the rest of the health care system is moving toward paying for value, payments for drugs largely continue to be stuck in a 20th century construct that focuses on price, regardless of the health outcomes of each patient. This lack of payment innovation...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2016 10:00 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Featured, Health Policy Lab, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, regulation, Research and Development, drug pricing, value-based payment

Using The Intensive Outpatient Care Program To Lower Costs And Improve Care For High-Cost Patients

Improving care for patients with chronic diseases has long been a priority for both public and private sector purchasers of health care. A robust body of literature demonstrates that a significant proportion of health expenditures are concentrated among...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2016 5:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Innovations in Care Delivery, Population Health, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, culture of health, out-patient care, High-Cost Patients

Reexamining Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research And Treatment Policy

In recent months, two developments have provided some degree of optimism to people with the illness variously called chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis (“inflammation of the brain and central nervous system, with muscle pain”), CFS/ME...

Published Thu, Feb 04 2016 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Hospitals, Research, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, NIH, PACE trial, chronic fatigue syndrome

At Last: The Data To Routinely Discuss Health Spending By Medical Condition

In a paper from the January 2015 issue of Health Affairs , Abe Dunn and colleagues from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) introduce readers to their innovative new Health Care Satellite Account (HCSA) and use the data to provide insights about...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2016 9:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Care Satellite Account, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Health Affairs February Issue: Vaccines

The February issue of Health Affairs explores the current environment in which vaccines are discovered, produced, and delivered. The issue also contains several studies examining the economic benefits and value of sustainably financing vaccinations in...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2016 1:41 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, vaccines, Health Affairs journal

Can Health Care Investments Stimulate the Economy?

Editor’s Note: In addition to Dr. Leighton Ku (photo and bio above), the authors of this post include Dr. Peter Shin, an Associate Research Professor and Director of the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at the George Washington University...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 1:42 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicaid

New Health Wonk Review Is Up

It’s March Madness, and over at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s blog, “The Users’ Guide to the Health Reform Galaxy,” Minna Jung serves up the madness of both the basketball court and the health care reform process in...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 2:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog

Private-Payer Hospital Profits Can Lead To Negative Medicare Margins

In an article published March 18 by Health Affairs, researchers at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission challenge a common assumption about Medicare patients and hospital profit margins. The study finds that hospitals with strong market power lose...

Published Tue, Mar 23 2010 7:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Insurance, Medicare, Competition, Hospitals

Recent Health Policy Briefs: Health Gaps And Premium Tax Credits

[subscribe2]The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines research on health disparities in the United States. In this country, life expectancy and other health status measures can vary dramatically...

Published Mon, Aug 19 2013 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States, Spending, Disparities

CMS And Health Reform: A Health Affairs Blog Roundtable

Much of the burden of implementing the newly passed health reform legislation will fall on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency must handle this task while continuing to perform its already daunting duties involving Medicare, Medicaid...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 12:30 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health IT, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Innovation

Health Policy Brief: The ‘Cadillac’ Tax

The most recent Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explains one of the most controversial provisions of the Affordable Care Act: the so-called Cadillac tax on generous employer-sponsored health insurance plans...

Published Fri, Sep 20 2013 1:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending

Implementing Health Reform: Plan Choices And Premiums

On September 26, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services released an Issue Brief disclosing premium rates that will be available through the exchanges in 2014. The brief contains data from 36 states including 34 with federal exchanges and 2...

Published Wed, Sep 25 2013 3:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Making The Complex Feel Simple: An Interview With Health Insurance Exchange Website Designer Jessica Teal

Jessica Teal has worked for almost 15 years in Web strategy, design and development. As the principal of Teal Media in metropolitan Detroit, she had the opportunity to serve as lead Web designer for the federal site for the health insurance exchanges...

Published Thu, Sep 26 2013 11:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Coverage, Technology

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