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Big White Wall: Expanding Mental Health Access Through The Digital Sphere

There is a preponderance of evidence that conventional approaches to the provision of mental health care do not meet the needs of a large portion of the population. Due to limitations of scale alone, there is an inherent misalignment between the number...

Published Mon, Jun 01 2015 7:56 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Health IT, Global Health, Mental Health, Innovations in Care Delivery, Population Health, Health Professionals, Long-term Services and Supports, Big White Wall, NHS Choices, SAMHSA, digital medicine

Accountable Care Organizations Taking Hold And Improving Health Care In California

There is new evidence that California’s Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are growing in size and number, serving more patients, and improving quality of care. Some of the key findings from an analysis done by the Berkeley Healthcare Forum group in...

Published Tue, Jun 02 2015 11:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, ACOs, EHRs, California Health Care, Berkeley Healthcare Forum

How Medicare Advantage Plans Can Thrive In A Winner-Take-All Market

For the past few years, U.S. health plans that cover Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have been struggling to hold out against a string of reimbursement cuts. Now, as these rate cuts finally begin to stabilize, plans are faced with a new challenge...

Published Thu, Jun 04 2015 9:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Medicare Advantage, Star ratings, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Implementing Health Reform: Workplace Wellness Programs

On May 29, 2013, the departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services released their final regulations governing Affordable Care Act workplace wellness programs . Everyone is in favor of wellness, but support for workplace wellness programs...

Published Wed, May 29 2013 8:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Prevention, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Health Reform: The Need To Move Forward

Editor’s Note: In the aftermath of President Obama’s State of the Union address, what is the state of health reform? Where do we go from here? In the post below, Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution addresses these questions. See also an earlier post...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 8:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, States

Six Problems With The ACA That Aren’t Going Away

As Congress and the Obama Administration await the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell , there is heightened interest in what happens after the decision. One common assumption is that if the court rules in favor of the administration, there will...

Published Thu, Jun 25 2015 5:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, ACA, Medicare Advantage, employer coverage, individual mandate, premium subsidies, global budgets, GDP

Hearts, Minds, And Health Care Reform

Thinking about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), King v. Burwell was not a difficult case. The congressional majority that passed this long and complicated statute sought to expand health insurance coverage for all Americans and found constitutionally permissible...

Published Fri, Jun 26 2015 8:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA, King v. Burwell, Social Security Act, NFIB v. Sebelius, Taft-Hartley Act

What’s Next For The Affordable Care Act? Life After King v. Burwell

In the not-too-distant future, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in King v. Burwell will be viewed as a significant turning point for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Simply stated, the ACA is not only the law of the land — it will remain the...

Published Mon, Jun 29 2015 8:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Disparities, Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, King v. Burwell, Affordable Care Act, out-of-pocket health care costs, family glitch, Medicaid expansion

The ACA Survives — But With A Note Of Caution For The Future?

Chief Justice Roberts has once again saved a core provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In King v Burwell , a majority of six Justices upheld the validity of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule interpreting the text of the ACA to permit tax credits...

Published Tue, Jun 30 2015 10:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Law, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, ACA, Supreme Court, King v. Burwell, subsidies

Implementing Health Reform: First-Year Results From Reinsurance And Risk Adjustment Programs

On June 30, 2015, right on schedule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced the results of the first year (2014) of the operation of the reinsurance and risk adjustment programs. The reinsurance and risk adjustment programs are two of the...

Published Wed, Jul 01 2015 7:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, CMS, insurers, reinsurance, health insurance, risk adjustment, premium stabilization programs

Medicaid Private Option For All?

The Medicaid “private option” pioneered by Arkansas continues to dominate the headlines. First, additional states, most recently Montana, are expanding Medicaid with this model. Now, Arkansas is considering the future of its program. There has also been...

Published Thu, Jul 02 2015 6:08 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Medicaid, Population Health, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, ACA, Arkansas, Private Insurance, 1332 waivers, Red States

Thirteen Ways Of Looking At King v. Burwell: A Virtual Symposium

In the week after the Supreme Court handed down its anxiously-awaited decision on King v. Burwell , Health Affairs Blog published a series of nine essays analyzing the justices’ opinions and considering the case’s potential long-term impact. From Tim...

Published Thu, Jul 02 2015 12:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA, Supreme Court, King v. Burwell, Affordable Care Act

Request For Abstracts: Health Affairs Alzheimer’s Disease Theme Issue

Health Affairs plans a thematic issue on Alzheimer’s disease in April 2014. We plan to cover a range of topics with the aim of providing “one stop shopping” for our policy-oriented audience. Topics include overview papers on the state of the science of...

Published Thu, Jun 13 2013 7:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Chronic Care, States, Global Health, Innovation, Aging

Informal Caregiving By And For Older Adults

Editor’s Note: For more on informal caregivers and related issues, see Bridging Troubled Waters: Family Caregivers, Transitions, And Long-Term Care and other articles in the January issue of Health Affairs, titled Advancing Long-Term Services &...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 9:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Aging, Long-Term Care

Death Of A Sales Job (A Three Act Ploy)

With apologies to Arthur Miller … President Obama went back before the cameras again Wednesday, providing yet another recycling of fading rationales for his health reform product that more voters would rather leave on the Capitol Hill store shelves...

Published Fri, Mar 05 2010 9:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Politics, Insurance, Public Opinion, Malpractice Liability Reform, Competition, Coverage, Medicaid

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