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CMS’ Proposed Changes To The Two-Midnight Rule: Partial Restoration of Medical Judgment

On July 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed changes to the controversial Two-Midnight Rule. This payment rule clarifies the circumstances under which Medicare will consider a given hospital stay to be an inpatient...

Published Tue, Sep 01 2015 10:37 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, quality improvement, Health Professionals, CMS, Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B, Two Midnight Rule
Implementing Health Reform: Federal Court Rules On March for Life v. Burwell

On August 31, 2015, yet another federal court decided yet another case challenging the contraceptive mandate. March for Life v. Burwell , however, is different than the dozens of cases that the federal courts have already decided. First, all of the cases...

Published Tue, Sep 01 2015 7:04 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Population Health, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA, contraceptive mandate, March for Life, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, First Amendment
The Value And Limits Of Economic Evaluation In Policy Analysis

Health care resources, no matter how represented, are ultimately finite. Trade-offs occur as spending in one area means that those same resources are unavailable to fund another program. In spite of this, U.S. policymakers remain reluctant to engage in...

Published Tue, Sep 01 2015 6:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness, Research, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Policy, WHO, hepatitis C, health economics, PCORI, heart disease, cost-effectiveness, malaria, QUALY
Implementing Health Reform: IRS Proposes Modification To Minimum Value Rule

Premium tax credits to assist with purchasing qualified health plans through the marketplaces are available to individuals with modified adjusted gross household incomes between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level who do not otherwise qualify...

Published Mon, Aug 31 2015 11:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, HHS, CMS, IRS, Tim Jost, Essential Health Benefits, minimum value standard, employer-sponsored coverage, 2017 benchmark plans
Rising Cost Of Drugs: Where Do We Go From Here?

The trends are clear: patients and institutions across the nation are concerned about skyrocketing drug prices. This post offers some information about drug pricing, explores the notion of market intervention, and proposes a series of responses to high...

Published Mon, Aug 31 2015 9:44 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Drugs and Medical Technology, FDA, hepatitis C, CMS, Big Pharma, Gilead Sciences, Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Avoiding Expensive And Consequential Health Care Decisions Based On Weak Research Designs

Long before Congress created the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, giving $32 billion to health care providers to transfer to Electronic Health Records (EHR) vendors, plans for that windfall were created by an...

Published Mon, Aug 31 2015 7:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Quality, Technology, Research, Featured, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Long-term Services and Supports, ONC, ACOs, CDC, HITECH Act, methods
Health Policy Brief: Aligning FDA And CMS Review

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) touches on recent initiatives to close gaps between the medical technology evaluation processes of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare...

Published Fri, Aug 28 2015 10:06 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Drugs and Medical Technology, RWJF, FDA, CMS, Health Policy Brief, coverage with evidence development, medical devices, parallel review
The Medicaid Expansion Experience In Michigan

As of July 2015, 30 states and the District of Columbia have expanded or planned to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Michigan is one of only six states with a fully Republican-led state government to expand the program. The Healthy...

Published Fri, Aug 28 2015 7:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Population Health, Following the ACA, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, ACA, CMS, Michigan, Rick Snyder, Republican, Healthy Michigan Plan
What Should Public Health Officials Be Doing About E-Cigarettes?

Are electronic cigarettes a safer alternative to combustible cigarettes, or are they a new gateway to a lifetime of nicotine addiction? In the past month, the editors of The New York Times noted the opposite conclusions from the British agency Public...

Published Thu, Aug 27 2015 11:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Prevention, Global Health, Children, Population Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, FDA, FAA, tobacco, e-cigarettes, vaping, Smoking
Ten Years After Hurricane Katrina: Progress And Challenges Remain For US Emergency Preparedness

Ten years ago, the nation watched in shock as Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans. Katrina was followed closely by Hurricane Rita, impacting Western Louisiana, and these storms collectively have become synonymous with systemic failure...

Published Thu, Aug 27 2015 8:50 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, Long-term Services and Supports, HHS, Hurricane Katrina, National Health Security Strategy, New Orleans, National Response Framework, emergency response
Quality Improvement: ‘Become Good At Cheating And You Never Need To Become Good At Anything Else’

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has trumpeted the recent drop in hospital readmissions among Medicare patients as a major advance for patient safety. But lost amidst the celebration is the fact that hospitals are increasingly “observing”...

Published Thu, Aug 27 2015 5:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Emergency Medicine, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, pay-for-performance, CMS, Observation, Hospital readmissions, Discharge
The Future Of Premium Assistance Through Waivers Under The Affordable Care Act

Premium assistance is the use of public funding for the purchase of commercial health insurance. Historically, premium assistance has mostly enabled a small number of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) recipients to enroll in health...

Published Wed, Aug 26 2015 12:38 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Essential Health Benefits, qualified health plans, State Innovation Waiver, Health Insurance Premium Payment Program
Implementing Health Reform: New Guidance On Reenrollment Of 2015 Enrollees

On August 25, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released on its REGTAP website a guidance for insurers on reenrollment of 2015 enrollees through the federally facilitated marketplace (FFM) for 2016. The guidance is quite technical...

Published Wed, Aug 26 2015 9:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, CMS, insurers, QHPs, REGTAP, reenrollment, passive enrollment
Insights Into Hispanics’ Enrollment On The Health Insurance Exchanges

In the U.S., Hispanics are more likely to lack health insurance than any other racial or ethnic group, and enrollment on the individual health insurance exchanges is disproportionately low among Hispanics — issues that have been well documented...

Published Wed, Aug 26 2015 8:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Population Health, Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, open enrollment period, McKinsey, Hispanics, consumer shopping behavior
From Sub-Saharan Africa To Seattle: Opportunities To Improve Health

Editor’s note: This blog post originally appeared on Impatient Optimists . The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is renowned for advocacy and investment in global health and development, in addition to other areas like U.S. education. As a MD...

Published Wed, Aug 26 2015 7:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, GrantWatch, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Medicaid and CHIP, CMMI, Long-term Services and Supports, infectious diseases, education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Washington State

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CMS’ Proposed Changes To The Two-Midnight Rule: Partial Restoration of Medical Judgment

Implementing Health Reform: Federal Court Rules On March for Life v. Burwell

The Value And Limits Of Economic Evaluation In Policy Analysis

Implementing Health Reform: IRS Proposes Modification To Minimum Value Rule

Rising Cost Of Drugs: Where Do We Go From Here?

Avoiding Expensive And Consequential Health Care Decisions Based On Weak Research Designs

Health Policy Brief: Aligning FDA And CMS Review

The Medicaid Expansion Experience In Michigan

What Should Public Health Officials Be Doing About E-Cigarettes?

Ten Years After Hurricane Katrina: Progress And Challenges Remain For US Emergency Preparedness

Quality Improvement: ‘Become Good At Cheating And You Never Need To Become Good At Anything Else’

The Future Of Premium Assistance Through Waivers Under The Affordable Care Act

Implementing Health Reform: New Guidance On Reenrollment Of 2015 Enrollees

Insights Into Hispanics’ Enrollment On The Health Insurance Exchanges

From Sub-Saharan Africa To Seattle: Opportunities To Improve Health