New From Health Affairs
New Issue July 2010
Weighing the Impact Of Health Reform
Entry Point
Who's in Charge at CMS?
NARRATIVE MATTERS
Back from the Brink: War, Suicide, and PTSD
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF
Accountable Care Organizations
Media Briefing
Rep. Burgess on Doctors and Health Reform
Recent Issue June 2010
Moving Forward On Health Reform
- June 29, 2010Web First
Colorectal Cancer Screening Options
- A new study demonstrates that for screening programs with limited budgets, the Hemoccult SENSA test would result in more life-years gained across an overall population.
- July 22, 2010Web First
Health Reform Impact
- Analysis from Harvard economist Joseph Newhouse predicts a decline in the number of uninsured but the continued increase in health care costs.
- July 9, 2010Health Care Costs
Will More Insurers Control Costs?
- Uwe Reinhardt asks on Health Affairs Blog: "Why do so many otherwise sensible people believe that fragmenting the buy side of the health care market even more than it already is will help contain the rising cost of health care? I would argue just the opposite."
- July 7, 2010Politics
Bypassing Senate for CMS Appointment
- President Obama bypassed the Senate and used a recess appointment today to install Don Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
- June 23, 2010Health Reform
Key Steps in Implementing Reform
- In an ongoing series of posts, law professor Tim Jost clearly lays out key reform implementation issues, including: a patient bill of rights, grandfathered plans, tax-exempt hospitals, small-employer tax credit, Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult insurance coverage.
- June 18, 2010Health Reform
Environmental Health
- Congress and the Institute of Medicine are asking questions about the human health effects of the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf region.
Accountable Care Organizations
- This year's health care reform legislation authorizes Medicare to contract with ACOs and provide care for enrollees. What awaits health systems, physicians, administrators, insurers, patients, and policy makers as ACOs take shape?July 27, 2010
Extra Federal Support For Medicaid
- A temporary increase in federal Medicaid funding for recession-plagued states will expire at year's end. Should Congress extend the aid further?July 15, 2010
Paying Physicians For Medicare Services
- It is widely agreed that the existing payment system is broken. Congress has again enacted a short-term fix to a long-term problem that it will have to revisit.June 25, 2010
Back from the Brink: War, Suicide, And PTSD
- A veteran describes his odyssey with post-traumatic stress disorder. Read the full essay in the July Health Affairs and listen to the author reading excerpts on NPR’s July 14 "All Things Considered" show.
Current Issue
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Implementers Get Down to Work
- Political Challenges to Implementation
- Testing Accountable Care Organizations
- Shifts in Economic Risks to Providers
- Lessons for CMS Innovation Center
- Skills for Patient-Centered Care
- Reform Impact on Devices, Diagnostics
- Reform Impact on Pharmaceutical Firms
- Role of Community Health Workers
- Parental Job Loss and Covering Kids
- Keeping Kids Enrolled
- Disparities in Dental Care
- Online Communication in Primary Care
- Generic Drug Substitution Laws
- Workforce Targets in Developing Nations
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- Implementing Health Reform: Pre-Existing Condition Coverage 30 Jul 2010
- Changing The Name — But Not The Political Game 30 Jul 2010
- Viable — And Reliable — Alternatives To Colonoscopies 29 Jul 2010
- End-Of-Life Savings: The ‘Fool’s Gold’ Of Reform? 28 Jul 2010
- Health Policy Brief: Accountable Care Organizations 27 Jul 2010
- Lessons Learned from the Pfizer Foundation’s ConnectHIV Initiative 29 Jul 2010
- Foundation Underscores the Merits of Healthy Food Choices 28 Jul 2010
- Roundup: Foundations’ Efforts in Mental Health Care 23 Jul 2010
- What Have Foundations Been Doing to Prevent and Treat HIV/AIDS? 21 Jul 2010
- Reducing Health Care Disparities Affecting People with Diabetes 17 Jul 2010
- Blog Roundtable: CMS Leaders Discuss Health Reform April 09, 2010
- Newsmaker Breakfast With Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) March 11, 2010
- Moving Forward on Health Reform June 08, 2010
- Blog Roundtable: CMS Leaders Discuss Health Reform April 09, 2010
- Newsmaker Breakfast With Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) March 11, 2010
- Health Affairs Briefing – Childhood Obesity March 02, 2010
- Will generalist physician supply meet demands of an increasing and aging population?
- Health spending by state of residence, 1991-2004.
- It's the prices, stupid: why the United States is so different from other countries.
- Toward higher-performance health systems: adults' health care experiences in seven countries, 2007.
- Calorie labeling and food choices: a first look at the effects on low-income people in New York City.
- Innovation in Medicare and Medicaid will be central to health reform's success.
- Calorie labeling and food choices: a first look at the effects on low-income people in New York City.
- Health care reform: perspectives from large employers.
- Liking the pieces, not the package: contradictions in public opinion during health reform.
- Why pharmacists belong in the medical home.
- Calorie labeling and food choices: a first look at the effects on low-income people in New York City.
- It's the prices, stupid: why the United States is so different from other countries.
- Will generalist physician supply meet demands of an increasing and aging population?
- What 'patient-centered' should mean: confessions of an extremist.
- The triple aim: care, health, and cost.