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1.  Health Reform: Reinventing the Wheel, Health Affairs Blog, October 12th, 2006, and Comment
Health Affairs via Physicians for a National Health Program Link to more items from this source
Oct. 13, 2006
Excerpt: The American health care systems perform impressively, producing what they are designed to deliver: cost inflation, inefficiency, and inequity. [Alan Maynard writes on Porter and Teisberg's reinvention of the health care system wheel.]
2.  Will Employer Coverage Endure? The Health Affairs Thematic Issue
California HealthCare Foundation Link to more items from this source
Nov. 17, 2006
Excerpt: The November/December 2006 issue of the journal Health Affairs, supported by the California HealthCare Foundation, includes a series of articles exploring the future of employer coverage and trends in private health insurance[.]
3.  Regarding the Recent Article on Massachusetts Health Reform: What Were They Thinking at Health Affairs?
National Center for Policy Analysis [NCPA] Link to more items from this source
Feb. 27, 2012
Based on telephone surveys, the authors declare that RomneyCare 'continued to fare well in 2010.' This is an important finding, as the authors consider RomneyCare 'the template for the federal Affordable Care Act of 2010.' Unfortunately, in several cases the authors fail to inform readers that their results are contradicted by other, possibly more reliable, sources of information. They also neglect to put some of their results in proper context.
4.  Testimony of IRS Commissioner Koskinen Before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Implementation of the ACA
Internal Revenue Service [IRS] Link to more items from this source
Feb. 23, 2016
"While the operation of these Marketplaces is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the IRS has the limited role of providing Marketplaces with data and computational services for use in their determinations about eligibility for financial assistance.... The IRS, through this computational service, provides the Marketplace with a single figure: the maximum advance premium tax credit for which the applicant may be eligible based on those data inputs.... During the 2015 open enrollment period, the IRS processed more than 25 million requests for federal tax return data and more than 17 million computational requests, with an average IRS response time of less than five seconds."
5.  Department of Veterans Affairs Leads in Changing the Telehealth Landscape
Epstein Becker Green Link to more items from this source
June 3, 2018
"As a general rule, most telehealth practitioners are required to comply with various and state-specific licensing, registration, and certification requirements in order to render health care services via telehealth ... [T]he VA is exercising its authority as a federal agency to preempt conflicting state laws relating to the practice of medicine or other health care services via telehealth."
6.  Bloomberg Agrees to Buy Bureau of National Affairs for About $990 Million
Bloomberg; subscription may be required Link to more items from this source
Aug. 25, 2011
BNA, which publishes the Daily Labor Report and U.S. Law Week, will 'significantly grow Bloomberg's presence in Washington' and its research will contribute to coverage and analysis of employment, health care, labor, accounting, intellectual property and telecommunications, Bloomberg said.
7.  Leading ACA Columnist Passes Baton to New Author
Chris Fleming, in Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
Jan. 5, 2018
"[Timothy Jost, in the Health Affairs Blog, chronicled] the development and eventual passage of the ACA. Then, he began doing [hundreds of] posts on the seemingly endless stream of rules, guidances, and other documents necessary to put the new law into action.... Tim will continue to write the monthly 'Eye on Health Reform' [column in] Health Affairs.... Katie Keith will [take over for Jost on the ACA column]."
8.  Defined Contribution Health Insurance Products: Development and Prospects
Health Affairs via AHealthyMe.com Link to more items from this source
Mar. 12, 2002
From the Jan./Feb. 2002 issue of Health Affairs. Excerpt: In this paper we contrast several [Defined Contribution Plans, or DCPs] with respect to their characteristics and development processes ... The DCPs generally agree with this assessment and believe that they need to diffuse rapidly over the next three to five years, or they will be preempted by look-alike products offered by existing health plans. They have several factors in their favor.
9.  The BPC Health Care Reform Plan: A Response to Coulam, Feldman and Dowd
Sheila Burke, Paul Ginsburg, Steven Lieberman, Bill Hoagland, and Katherine Hayes, in Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
July 30, 2013
"We commend Robert Coulam, Roger Feldman, and Bryan Dowd for bringing attention to competitive bidding in Medicare ... However, we believe the authors missed the mark in their recent Health Affairs Blog analysis of the Bipartisan Policy Center's (BPC) proposal. Most notably, they failed to consider the political realities surrounding competitive bidding.... We believe the BPC approach provides a stronger means to achieve key goals of premium support -- increased competition and promoting the creation of more integrated systems of care -- by not focusing exclusively on competitive bidding and including other significant reforms."
10.  Implementing Health Reform: Data Hub Security and Other Issues
Timothy Jost, in Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
Sept. 13, 2013
"The hub will verify data provided by applicants against information in existing and secure federal and state databases, such as those of the [IRS], [SSA], the Department of Veterans Affairs, Medicare, and others. It will provide one highly secure connection to these databases rather than requiring each exchange to set up its own connections. The hub has several levels of protection to mitigate security risks. It employs a continuous monitoring model to rapidly identify and take action against irregular behavior and unauthorized system changes that could indicate a potential incident."
11.  Congress Has the Opportunity to Deliver Health Care Price Transparency
Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
Mar. 18, 2024
"[With] positive momentum from policy makers in both chambers of Congress and on both sides of the aisle, the likelihood of a final price transparency bill getting passed and signed into law seems high. [Two current] proposals include many of the same provisions but differ in other ways. So, what would these price transparency provisions do? Which provisions could have the most significant impact on the cost of health care for consumers and employers? And what more still needs to be done to fully achieve the cost-containment objectives of requiring price transparency in health care?"
12.  Will the Change Healthcare Incident Change Health Care?
Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
Mar. 15, 2024
"The Change cyberattack has precipitated financial crises for care providers large and small and for patients, as well as for Change's immense owner, the $371 billion UnitedHealth Group. It has graphically demonstrated the vulnerability of a bewilderingly complex proprietary medical payment system. It is a 'Deepwater Horizon' moment in American health care finance."
13.  Will Religious Freedom Claims Trump Public Health? Braidwood and HIV Prevention
Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
Mar. 4, 2024
"By declining to argue the RFRA claims before the Fifth Circuit, the government may have saved the question for another day and avoided setting a national legal precedent. However, even applying the obligatory strict scrutiny standard, mandatory PrEP coverage should withstand the plaintiffs' RFRA claims for several reasons." [Braidwood Management, Inc. v. Becerra, No. 20-0283 (N.D. Tex. Sep. 7, 2022; on appeal to 5th Cir. No. 23-10326)]
14.  National Health Care Spending in 2022: Growth Similar to Prepandemic Rates
Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
Dec. 13, 2023
"During the period 2020-22, both the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented government response to the public health emergency dramatically affected health care expenditure trends. After increasing by 10.6 percent in 2020, total expenditures grew at a slower rate of 3.2 percent in 2021 as reductions in COVID-19 supplemental funding and public health expenditures partly offset strong growth in the use of health care goods and services. In comparison, the prepandemic average annual growth rate for overall health spending was 4.4 percent during 2016-19. "
15.  Health Care Megatrends: Patient Care
Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
May 11, 2023
"Over the next five years, primary care will be enhanced to provide more comprehensive care, manage patients, and reduce costs.... Increased demand, general public concern, and more access channels point to a trend that should finally culminate in mental health parity.... Improving maternity care is finally being recognized as a major issue and is rising on the agenda for politicians, insurance plans, and health systems.... Multiple factors are converging to alter behavioral and social factors to improve health outcomes."
16.  Telehealth Use During the Early COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and Subsequent Health Care Costs and Utilization
Health Affairs Scholar Link to more items from this source
Jan. 16, 2024
"[U]sing telehealth during the stay-at-home order period was associated with a reduction in total medical costs (by -$1814 per person), number of emergency department visits (by -88.6 per 1,000 persons), and inpatient admissions (by -32.4 per 1,000 persons). Telehealth use increased per-person per-year pharmacy prescription claims (by 0.514) and average number of days' drug supply (by.773 days)."
17.  In an Era of Premium and Provider Price Increases, State Employee Health Plans Target Key Cost Drivers
Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
Nov. 16, 2023
"[T]he agencies that purchase health insurance for [the more than 15 million] public employees ... are often the largest commercial purchaser of health care services in their state and therefore have market power to exert pressure on insurance companies and providers.... [T]heir efforts to shift health plan and provider behaviors and encourage greater efficiencies can have ripple effects for other commercial purchasers."
18.  Mental Health Parity in the Wake of Wit v. United Behavioral Health
Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
May 26, 2023
"Wit v. United Behavioral Health exposed the use of a managed care organization's own internal guidelines to determine what treatment is covered even when these guidelines are contrary to professionally developed standards of care. While this litigation is not necessarily based on federal parity laws, it reveals the divergence between coverage decision making and generally accepted standards of care, and has provided revealing insight into how insurers subvert federal parity laws by relying on internal guidelines that can harm their plan members."
19.  Proposed Rule Would Roll Back Expansion of Association Health Plans
Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
Dec. 20, 2023
"DOL is also considering, in addition to rescinding the 2018 AHP regulations, codifying into federal regulations its pre-2018 guidance. It asks for public comment on whether it should do so, or whether it should issue additional guidance clarifying the application of its pre-2018 guidance as it relates to group health plans (including the application of HIPAA's nondiscrimination rules to AHPs); propose revised alternative criteria for MEWAs; or pursue some combination of the above."
20.  National Health Expenditures: Reading Past the Headlines
Health Affairs Forefront Link to more items from this source
Dec. 15, 2023
"The actuaries' observation that health care spending growth has returned to prepandemic rates doesn't discuss which prepandemic rate.... Relative to the rate of growth that had persisted for decades, annual medical spending increases fell markedly sometime in the late 2000s and had remained low up to the pandemic. Is there evidence that this slower growth is returning, or will spending instead converge back to the long-run average?"
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