Health Affairs Press Room
Press Releases
September 25, 2013
• State Variation In Health Insurance Dynamics
September 18, 2013
• US Health Spending Projected to Grow an Average of 5.8 Percent Annually through 2022
September 12, 2013
• Policy Brief - Excise Tax on 'Cadillac' Plans
September 09, 2013
• Health Affairs Explores The "Thorns" Awaiting The Affordable Care Act
September 06, 2013
• September 2013 Table Of Contents
August 20, 2013
• Employer-Sponsored Family Health Premiums Rise a Modest 4 Percent in 2013, National Benchmark Employer Survey Finds
August 15, 2013
• Policy Brief - Health Gaps
August 08, 2013
• Health Affairs Conversations Podcast: Jost and Wilensky on Implementing Reform
August 05, 2013
• Health Affairs Examines Health IT, Payment and Practice Reforms
August 02, 2013
• August 2013 Table Of Contents
August 01, 2013
• Policy Brief - Premium Tax Credits
July 24, 2013
• Cutting Health Cost Growth By Shared State-Federal Savings
July 18, 2013
• Policy Brief - Health Insurance Exchanges
July 09, 2013
• From Health Affairs: Trends in the Adoption of Health Information Technology
July 08, 2013
• With The Countdown To ACA Implementation, Health Affairs Examines The States And Medicaid Expansion
June 26, 2013
• Massachusetts Data Hints That States Will See Large ACA Medicaid Expansion
June 20, 2013
• Policy Brief - Restructuring Medicare
June 12, 2013
• Unauthorized Immigrants Account for Only 1.4 Percent of US Medical Spending
June 06, 2013
• Policy Brief - Premium Assistance in Medicaid
June 03, 2013
• Health Affairs Examines Medicaid Expansion and Vulnerable Populations
May 31, 2013
• June 2013 Table Of Contents
May 29, 2013
• Immigrants Contributed An Estimated $115.2 Billion More To The Medicare Trust Fund Than They Took Out In 2002-09
May 15, 2013
• In One State, Cancer Patients 2.65 Times Likelier to File for Bankruptcy
May 06, 2013
• Health Affairs Examines Potential Longevity of Slowdown in Health Care Spending Growth
April 24, 2013
• Independent Review Needed for Future DSM Revisions
April 18, 2013
• Policy Brief - Per Capita Caps in Medicaid
April 17, 2013
• In Massachusetts, Many Low-Income Families Struggle Paying for Health Insurance
April 08, 2013
• Health Affairs Examines Worldwide Pursuit Of The 'Triple Aim' In April 2013 Issue
April 03, 2013
• In Rural China, a Successful Payment Reform Pilot Project
March 27, 2013
• CMS's Innovation Center Evaluates New Care and Payment Models
• Policy Brief - The Multi-State Plan Program
March 20, 2013
• European Countries Surveyed about Application of Patient-Centered Medical Home
March 04, 2013
• Health Affairs Tackles Low Life Expectancy in the U.S. and Questions Popular Remedies
March 01, 2013
• March 2013 Table Of Contents
February 28, 2013
• Policy Brief - The CO-OP Health Insurance Program
February 20, 2013
• Seven Million Americans Could Face Primary Care Physician Shortage
February 15, 2013
• Policy Brief - Patient Engagement
February 13, 2013
• Several Health Care Benefits Expected from Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs; Much Work Needs To Be Done
February 04, 2013
• Health Affairs Explores Whether "Patient Activation and Engagement" Are Panaceas in February Issue
January 31, 2013
• Policy Brief - Federally Facilitated Exchanges
January 08, 2013
• January Health Affairs Examines Rocky Road of Delivery System Transformation
January 07, 2013
• Growth in US Health Spending in 2011 Remained Low at 3.9 Percent for the Third Consecutive Year
December 19, 2012
• Millions Of Young Americans Gained Health Insurance Since the ACA's Enactment
December 13, 2012
• Policy Brief - Basic Health Program
December 12, 2012
• Patients with After-Hours Access to Their Providers Showed Lower Emergency Room Use
December 3, 2012
• Health Affairs' December Issue for Health Reform Optimists, Pessimists and Everyone in Between
November 30, 2012
• December 2012 Table Of Contents
November 21, 2012
• Profiles Of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Young Leader Awardees
November 15, 2012
• Ten-Country Survey of Primary Care Physicians Shows Progress in Use of Health Information Technology, Less in Other Areas
• Policy Brief - Basic Health Program
November 05, 2012
• Insights from Emerging Health Care Delivery Models Examined in Health Affairs' November 2012 Issue
October 29, 2012
• November 2012 Table Of Contents
October 25, 2012
• Policy Brief - Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care
October 24, 2012
• Proportion Of Those With High Medical Costs Unchanged During Recent Recession
October 17, 2012
• Mixed Financial Incentives For Hospitals To Reduce Surgical Complications' Frequency
October 11, 2012
•Policy Brief - Pay-for-Performance
October 09, 2012
•Current Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research Featured in Health Affairs' October 2012 Issue
October 03, 2012
•Medicare Program Simulation Shows Limited Savings From Meeting Quality Targets
October 02, 2012
•October 2012 Table Of Contents
September 27, 2012
•Policy Brief - Health Reform and the Supreme Court
September 26, 2012
• Better Use of Dedicated Hospital Observation Units Could Save $3.1 Billion a Year
September 19, 2012
• For Payment Reform, Lessons from the Massachusetts Experience
September 13, 2012
•Policy Brief - Improving Care Transitions
September 11, 2012
•Family Health Premiums Rise 4 Percent to Average $15,745 in 2012, National Benchmark Employer Survey Finds
September 04, 2012
•Profiles in Payment Innovation Featured in Health Affairs' September 2012 Issue
August 30, 2012
•Policy Brief - Risk Adjustment in Health Insurance
August 29, 2012
•More Avoidable Deaths in the US Than in Three European Countries
August 23, 2012
•September 2012 Table Of Contents
August 16, 2012
•Policy Brief - Graduate Medical Education
August 15, 2012
•New Study Finds Fourfold Increase To Retail Clinics Between 2007 And 2009
August 6, 2012
•The Good, the Bad and the Possible for the US Safety Net Examined in Health Affairs' August 2012 Issue
July 31, 2012
•Policy Brief - Eliminating Fraud And Abuse
July 27, 2012
•August 2012 Table Of Contents
July 25, 2012
•New Study Finds Sharp Slowdown In Imaging Use After 2005
July 18, 2012
•Survey Finds Medicare Beneficiaries Are Better Off Than Adults With Private Coverage
July 13, 2012
•Policy Brief - Assistance for Global HIV/AIDS
July 11, 2012
•New Studies About Next Steps In Affordable Care Act Implementation
July 09, 2012
June 28, 2012
•July 2012 Table Of Contents
June 20, 2012
•For Vulnerable Older Adults, the Affordable Care Act Could Fall Short Without Changes in Health Care Delivery and Payment Systems
June 13, 2012
•Policy Brief - Care for Dual Eligibles
June 12, 2012
•US Health Spending Projected to Grow an Average of 5.7 Percent Annually through 2021
June 06, 2012
•New Study Suggests Improvements For Estimating Who Is Eligible For Health Insurance Exchange Subsidies
June 04, 2012
•Cost and Care Coordination of Medicare/Medicaid Dual Eligibles Addressed in Health Affairs' June 2012 Issue
May 25, 2012
•June 2012 Table Of Contents
May 16, 2012
•Under Health Reform, a $280+ Average Annual Savings on Care for Those with Individual Insurance
May 10, 2012
•Policy Brief - Workplace Wellness Benefits
May 09, 2012
•Wide Variations in Knee Replacement Surgery Fees and Care
May 07, 2012
•Issues In Medicare Spending Are A Focus Of May 2012 Issue Of Health Affairs
April 26, 2012
•May 2012 Table Of Contents
April 25, 2012
•Policy Brief - Essential Health Benefits
April 24, 2012
•New Studies About Public Reporting
April 18, 2012
•Coordinating Services for Dual Eligibles
April 10, 2012
•American Cancer Patients Live Longer Than Those in Europe; Higher-Priced Cancer Treatments in US Offer Better Survival
April 09, 2012
•A Lung Cancer Screening Insurance Benefit Would Save Lives at Relatively Low Cost, says Health Affairs Study
March 29, 2012
•April 2012 Table Of Contents
March 28, 2012
•New Studies About Public Reporting
March 22, 2012
•Policy Brief - Premium Support In Medicare
March 21, 2012
•The Case for Delaying the Implementation of the New ICD-10 Coding System
March 14, 2012
•Estimated Toll of Campus Drinking To a University: $469,000--$546,000 in Emergency Costs
March 09, 2012
•Policy Brief - Public Reporting on Quality and Costs
March 08, 2012
•Health Information Technology: How Fast Is It Spreading, And Is The Nation Reaping The Benefits?
March 07, 2012
•Public Reporting On Quality And Costs
March 06, 2012
•Medicare's Public Reporting Program on Hospital Quality Had Little or No Impact on Death Rates in Hospitals
February 28, 2012
•March 2012 Table Of Contents
February 23, 2012
•Policy Brief - The Prevention and Public Health Fund
February 15, 2012
•Evaluating Government-Developed Quality Assessment Tools
February 10, 2012
•Policy Brief - Small Business Insurance Exchanges
February 09, 2012
•Small Business Health Insurance Exchanges: Examining The Potential And The Pitfalls
February 08, 2012
•Some Physicians Not Always Honest With Patients, Health Affairs Study Reports
January 31, 2012
•Policy Brief - Next Steps For Accountable Care Organizations
January 25, 2012
•Massachusetts Health Reform: How It Fared In 2010
January 18, 2012
•New Federal Initiative To Increase "Health Literacy"
January 12, 2012
•Policy Brief - Medicaid Reform
January 11, 2012
•The Diabetes Threat: Can It Be Contained?
January 09, 2012
•Slow Growth in Health Spending and Use of Health Care Goods and Services Continued in 2010, Federal Analysts Say
December 15, 2011
•Policy Brief - The Independent Payment Advisory Board
December 09, 2011
•Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities and Challenges for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute in 2012 and Beyond
December 08, 2011
•New Studies on Prescription Drugs: Clinical Trials Reporting, Off-Label Marketing, and Managing Use of Antipsychotics
December 07, 2011
•New Eleven-Country Survey Of Seriously Ill Patients: Medical Home Patients Fared Better
December 06, 2011
•Nurse Workforce Grows Faster Than Expected; Younger Nurses Joining Ranks
November 10, 2011
•Community Development and Health
November 09, 2011
•New Eleven-Country Survey Of Seriously Ill Patients: Medical Home Patients Fared Better
November 08, 2011
•The Community Development Sector Takes On The Role Of Helping To Build Healthier Neighborhoods
November 07, 2011
•New Study: Variations in Medicare Payments for Inpatient Surgery Strengthen Case for Bundling
November 03, 2011
•Policy Brief - Medicare Payments to Physicians
November 01, 2011
•November 2011 Table Of Contents
October 26, 2011
•The Impact Of The Affordable Care Act On Coverage And Medicaid Enrollment
October 19, 2011
•First Comprehensive Report On The Department Of Veterans Affairs' Mental Health Treatment System
October 07, 2011
•Health Affairs Explores Factors Driving Health and Health Care Disparities and Measures That Can Help To Close The Gaps
October 06, 2011
•Worst Hospitals Treat Twice As Many Minorities And Poor Patients As Best Hospitals, Also Yield Worse Outcomes: New Study
•Policy Brief - Achieving Equity in Health
October 04, 2011
•October 2011 Table Of Contents
September 14, 2011
•'Meaningful Use' And Electronic Health Records: Real Results Won't Show Till Later
September 13, 2011
•Policy Brief - Medigap Insurance Policies
September 12, 2011
•Increased Health Spending Wiped Out American Families' Income Gains Over Past Decade; Low-Income Families Hit Hardest
September 09, 2011
•Weight Loss Program For Prediabetic Adults 60-64 Projected To Save Medicare Up To $15 Billion, Says Study In Health Affairs
September 08, 2011
•High Doctor Fees, Not Practice Costs, Drive Higher Health Care Spending on Physicians in the United States Compared to Other Countries
August 29, 2011
•September 2011 Table Of Contents
August 18, 2011
•Choice Overload: Why Some Seniors Avoid Medicare Advantage Plans
August 08, 2011
•Health Reform Law, Other Changes Could Transform Public Addiction Treatment In The United States
August 05, 2011
•Increase in Nonpsychiatrist Prescribing of Antidepressants Without a Psychiatric Diagnosis Helps Accelerate Use, Says Health Affairs Study
August 04, 2011
•U.S Physician Practices Spend Nearly Four Times More Than Their Canadian Counterparts on Interactions with Health Plans and Other Payers
July 21, 2011
•Data Show That Increased Spending By Local Public Health Agencies Pays Off
July 08, 2011
•Challenges for Hospitals: Payment, Governance, Expanding Access, and Delivery System Transformation
•Policy Brief - Legal Challenges to Health Reform
June 30, 2011
•Smaller Practices And The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Work In Progress
June 23, 2011
•New Studies on Forecasting Life Expectancy And New Cardiac Surgery Programs
June 16, 2011
•New Study Finds FDA Approval Process For Cancer Drugs Faster Than The European Medicines Agency (EMA)
June 15, 2011
•Policy Brief: Medicare Advantage Plans and The Affordable Care Act
June 13, 2011
•The 'Decade of Vaccines' Has the Potential to Save Lives, But Many Challenges Lie Ahead
June 10, 2011
•Boosting Childhood Vaccine Coverage In 72 Countries Could Save 6.4 Million Lives, Up to $231 Billion Over 10 Years
June 09, 2011
•U.S. Children Are Getting Vaccinated In Record Numbers, But Parents Still Have Worries: New Survey
June 03, 2011
•June 2011 Table Of Contents
May 19, 2011
•Two Studies Focus On Delivering Quality Care, Reducing Costs, And Reaching Underserved Rural Populations
May 13, 2011
•Policy Brief: The CLASS Act
May 12, 2011
•Prescription Drug Abuse In The United States: How Much Of A Factor Is The Internet?
May 09, 2011
•US Must Strengthen Efforts to Restrict Chemicals That Threaten Health, Say Researchers
May 04, 2011
•Environmental Illness In Children Contributes $76.6 Billion To Annual Health Care Costs, Says New Study
April 15, 2011
•Policy Brief: Improving Quality
April 08, 2011
•Quality Improvements in the VA Health Care System Narrowed Racial Gaps in Care, But Not in Outcomes, Says Study in Health Affairs
April 07, 2011
•New Study Finds Up To Ten Times More Hospital Errors Than Other Methods Have Detected
April 04, 2011
•Policy Brief: 'Unreasonable' Health Insurance Rate Increases
March 31, 2011
•April 2011 Table Of Contents
March 22, 2011
•Philip Musgrove
March 09, 2011
•Health Affairs Announces New Journal Section on Long-Term Services and Supports: The Care Span
•Policy Brief: Employers and Health Care Reform
March 08, 2011
•Health Care Delivery Innovators Make Strides Toward The Vaunted "Triple Aim": Better Health, Better Care, and Lower Costs
February 25, 2011
•March 2011 Table of Contents
February 23, 2011
•Policy Brief: Congress and the Affordable Care Act
February 11, 2011
•Policy Brief: Repealing The 1099 Provision
February 04, 2011
•New Health Affairs Study Predicts Frequent ‘Churning’ Between Medicaid And State Exchanges Under Health Reform
February 03, 2011
•New Health Affairs Study Identifies Growing Gender Gap in Starting Salaries for Physicians--with Men Making Nearly $17,000 More Than Women in 2008
January 28, 2011
•February 2011 Table of Contents
•Policy Brief: Enrolling More Children in Medicaid and CHIP
January 14, 2011
•Policy Brief: Small Business Tax Credits
January 06, 2011
•Weak Economy in 2009 Causes Health Spending to Grow at Slowest Rate in Five Decades, Federal Analysts Say
•Accountable Care Organizations: The Next Phase
December 30, 2010
•January 2011 Table of Contents
December 16, 2010
•CMS' Gilfillan Keynotes Health Affairs Conference On Innovation
December 15, 2010
•Agenda: Innovations Across The Nation In Health Care Delivery
December 09, 2010
•How Does U.S. Medical Spending Vary By Age And Gender?
December 08, 2010
•Health Affairs Studies Puncture Arguments About Benefits of Physicians' Self-Referrals for Imaging
•New Research Finds Chronic Disease on the Rise Worldwide; Poor Diets, Lack of Exercise Spur High Rates of Heart Failure, Stroke, and Diabetes
December 07, 2010
•New Health Affairs Study Suggests That Private Insurers Control Health Care Spending Better Than Medicare
December 06, 2010
•The 2007–09 Recession And Health Insurance Coverage
November 24, 2010
•December 2010 Table Of Contents
November 18, 2010
•Health Insurance Design: Comparing The US And Other Countries
November 02, 2010
•New Research Finds Patients More Likely To Adhere To Medications When Cost Sharing Is Reduced Or Eliminated
October 22, 2010
•November 2010 Table Of Contents
October 12, 2010
•Health Affairs' podcasts now available on iTunes U
October 07, 2010
•New Information About Comparative Effectiveness Research
•How Do American Survival And Medical Spending Rates Compare With Other Countries?
October 05, 2010
•Federal Push For Comparative Effectiveness Research Aims To Increase Health Care Quality And Value
•Medicare Should Use Comparative Effectiveness Research to Decide Reimbursement for New Services, Say Researchers
September 27, 2010
•October 2010 Table Of Contents
September 09, 2010
•National Health Spending Projections: The Estimated Impact Of Reform Through 2019
September 03, 2010
•American Children Without Health Insurance: Who They Are, Where They Live, And Tools To Get Them Enrolled
September 02, 2010
•Family Health Premiums Rise 3 Percent To $13,770 In 2010, But Workers' Share Jumps 14 Percent As Firms Shift Cost Burden
August 26, 2010
•A Progress Report On Electronic Health Records In U.S. Hospitals
August 19, 2010
•September 2010 Table Of Contents
August 12, 2010
•Nonelderly Medicare Beneficiaries: Access And Costs More Problematic
August 03, 2010
•New Study Finds Foreign-Trained Doctors Provide Same Quality of Care as Doctors Educated in U.S.
•Nurse Anesthetists Working Without Supervision By Doctors Provide Safe Care
July 29, 2010
•Viable-And Reliable-Alternatives To Colonoscopies
July 22, 2010
•Who stands to gain from health reform?
July 19, 2010
•August 2010 Table Of Contents
July 07, 2010
•July Health Affairs: Roadmaps for the Unexplored Territory of Health Reform
June 29, 2010
•July 2010 Table Of Contents
June 24, 2010
•Access To Health Insurance For Same-Sex Couples: A New Study Finds Inequities
June 17, 2010
•Medicare's Physician Payment Cuts: How Did They Affect Cancer Patients?
June 08, 2010
•New Issue of Health Affairs Outlines Significant Challenges--and Opportunities--in Implementing Health Reform
June 03, 2010
•New Study Explains Why Consumers Frequently Don't Embrace Evidence-Based Health Care
May 25, 2010
•June 2010 Table Of Contents
May 13, 2010
•Why Many Low-Income Beneficiaries Opt Out of the Medicare Subsidy
May 04, 2010
•Reinventing Primary Care: An Urgent First Priority for Health Reform
April 29, 2010
•How To Simplify Medical Billing While Reducing Medical Costs
April 23, 2010
•CMS NOMINEE BERWICK'S WRITINGS IN HEALTH AFFAIRS
April 22, 2010
•May 2010 Table Of Contents
April 01, 2010
•Soda Taxes: How Effective A Remedy To Help Combat Child Obesity?
•April 2010 Table Of Contents
March 25, 2010
•For More Americans, Health Care Costs At Least 10 Percent Of Family Income
March 18, 2010
•Hospitals' Profit Margins: When It Comes To Medicare Payments, Some Surprising Findings
March 11, 2010
•Public Attitudes -- And Partisan Differences -- About Whether The Uninsured Get The Medical Coverage They Need
March 04, 2010
•For Overweight Children, A Pilot Program At Community Health Centers Yields Results
March 02, 2010
•Reversing the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity
February 25, 2010
•Growing California Hospital-Physician Market Power Foreshadows Challenges to National Health Reform
February 18, 2010
•March 2010 Table Of Contents
February 18, 2010
•Unexpected Reasons For Medicare Spending Increases, 1987-2006
February 04, 2010
•U.S. Health Spending Projected To Have Reached $2.5 Trillion And 17.3 Percent Of GDP In 2009
February 02, 2010
•Public, Private Investments In Community Health Centers Have Paid Off For Patients
•Global E-Health: Benefits And Challenges For The Developing World
February 01, 2010
•National Health Spending Projections In 2009: How Much Of An Impact Has The Recession Had?
January 28, 2010
•What Drives Medicare Spending Variations? Some Surprising Results
January 25, 2010
•February 2010 Table Of Contents
January 21, 2010
•Can Value-Based Medical Insurance Programs Be Cost Effective?
January 14, 2010
•The Costs of Diabetes - And the Savings of Workplace Wellness Programs
January 07, 2010
•The Culture-Change Movement In Nursing Homes: Is It Delivering On Person-Centered Care?
January 05, 2010
•Long-Term Care Services And Supports: Advancing Toward A State-Of-The-Art System
•U.S. Health Spending Growth Slowest in Nearly 50 Years
•Assisted Living Facilities More Likely In Areas With Higher Income, Education Level
November/December (December 03, 2009)
•Two New Studies Provide Data on the True Costs, and Savings, of Health Insurance Plans
November/December (December 01, 2009)
•Ten Years After the IOM's Landmark Patient Safety Report, How Much Progress Has Been Made?
November/December (November 06, 2009)
•New Survey Shows Quality Not A Top Priority For Nearly Half The Nation's Hospital Boards
November/December (November 05, 2009)
•U.S. Primary Care Physicians: International Survey Shows They Lag Behind On Several Key Fronts
November/December (November 03, 2009)
•Global Challenges And Opportunities In Fighting HIV/AIDS And Neglected Diseases
September/October (October 27, 2009)
•Health Affairs November/December 2009 Table Of Contents
September/October (October 26, 2009)
•National Survey Finds Relationship Between Electronic Health Records Adoption By Hospitals And Economic Status Of Patients
September/October (October 21, 2009)
•New Policy Brief Explores Health Insurance Reforms: Should Congress Make The Insurance Market Work Better For Individuals And Small Businesses?
September/October (October 20, 2009)
•Uninsured In America: Two Health Affairs Studies Show A Rise For Those Living With Chronic Diseases
September/October (October 14, 2009)
•Two Health Affairs Studies Question The Benefits Of Some Medical Technologies
September/October (October 06, 2009)
•From Health Affairs: Three New Articles Assess the Success of Two U.S. Cities’ Efforts To Fight Obesity
September/October (October 01, 2009)
•Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: The Employer Response
September/October (September 29, 2009)
•In a new study, researchers find lessons from the 1918-19 flu pandemic
September/October (September 17, 2009)
•Health Affairs Article Examines Spending Patterns in Children's Health Care Programs; Also Online: Three Reflections on Senator Kennedy's Health Care Legacy
September/October (September 15, 2009)
•Health Affairs Examines Employer Coverage Trends, Potential Impact Of Public Plan
September/October (September 10, 2009)
•Respondents To The Current Population Survey Often Can't Accurately Recall Their Insurance Status Throughout The Previous Year
September/October (September 09, 2009)
•U.S. Health Spending To Consume Vastly Greater Share Of Personal Income If Nation Doesn't Slow The Rate Of Growth, Analysis Shows
July/August (September 01, 2009)
•Current Methods Of Estimating The Cost Of Federal Health Initiatives May Underestimate The Impact Of Efforts To Combat Chronic Disease
July/August (August 25, 2009)
•Europe Has Expanded Its Lead Over The United States In Pharmaceutical Research Productivity
July/August (August 20, 2009)
•Despite Wide Adoption, Little Evidence of eICU Impact on Intensive Care Cost/Quality
July/August (August 18, 2009)
•Are Americans Willing To Pay For Expanding Health Coverage?
July/August (August 11, 2009)
•Are Health Policy Researchers Doing A Good Job Of Providing Decisionmakers With Relevant And Reliable Information?
July/August (August 06, 2009)
•Examining The Health Workforce In Africa
July/August (August 04, 2009)
•Health-Related Games: The Latest Tool In The Medical Care Arsenal
July/August (July 30, 2009)
•How Could Congress Lower Drug Prices For Medicare Part D?
July/August (July 27, 2009)
•Medical Spending On Obesity Reaches $147 Billion Annually
July/August (July 23, 2009)
•Should Nonprofit Hospitals Have To Meet Thresholds For Community Benefit Spending To Retain Their Tax Exemptions?
July/August (July 21, 2009)
•Are Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs Being Overused Or Misused?
July/August (July 16, 2009)
•A New Health Insurance Purchasing Exchange Or A New Public Health Plan Could Require New Federal Underwriting And Coverage Standards
July/August (July 14, 2009)
•Eliminating Polio Requires Global, Coordinated Effort -- Health Affairs Article Highlights Potential Risks, Rewards Of Worldwide Eradication
May/June (July 9, 2009)
•Obesity-Related Hospitalizations For Children And Youth Nearly Doubled Between 1999 And 2005
May/June (July 7, 2009)
•How Well Did Health Departments Communicate About Swine Flu At The Start Of The Epidemic?
May/June (June 30 2009)
•Benefits Of Proposed New Global Plan To Fight Tuberculosis Would Dwarf Costs in Sub-Saharan Africa
May/June (June 25 2009)
•A New Center For Comparative Effectiveness Research Should Leave Cost-Effectiveness Analysis To Others, Wilensky Says
May/June (June 23 2009)
•Study Finds Higher Numbers Of Eligible But Uninsured Children In "Mixed Eligibility" Families
May/June (June 18 2009)
•Executive And Legislative Branches Of Both Parties Underfund The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services, Weems Says
May/June (June 16 2009)
•Should Health Care Come With A Warranty?
May/June (June 12 2009)
•Recession Is Easing Nurse Shortage, But Longer-Term Shortage Still Looms
May/June (June 02 2009)
•Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Costs Rise For Workers With Employer Coverage
•Cost-Sharing Requirements For Publicly Insured Children Can Save The Government Money, But They Can Also Create Heavy Burdens For Families
May/June (28 May 2009)
•Massachusetts Has Sustained Coverage And Access Gains From Landmark 2006 Reforms
•At Least 7 Million More Americans Projected To Become Uninsured By 2010
May/June (21 May 2009)
•At Hospitals, More Intensive And Costly Treatment Does Not Bring Higher-Quality Care
May/June (19 May 2009)
•What 'Patient-Centered' Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist
May/June (14 May 2009)
•Physician Practices' Interactions With Health Plans Cost $31 Billion A Year, Equaling 6.9% Of All Spending For Physician And Clinical Services, New Study Finds
May/June (12 May 2009)
•Medicare Receives Higher Ratings Than Employer-Based Insurance
May/June (5 May 2009)
•Health Affairs Thematic Issue On Mental Health Care Explores U.S. Mental Health Care Trends, Comparative Effectiveness, Access For Veterans, And Supported Employment
March/April (29 April 2009)
•RWJF, Health Affairs Launch Health Policy Briefs
March/April (28 April 2009)
•Medicaid Physician Fees Grew 15 Percent From 2003 To 2008, Narrowing Gap With Medicare Physician Payment Rates
March/April (21 April 2009)
•Most Americans Support A Health Care Reform Plan Requiring Individuals To Purchase Health Coverage Only When The Plan Also Includes Shared Responsibility With Government, Employers, And Insurers
March/April (14 April 2009)
•Two-Thirds Of Primary Care Physicians Can't Get Mental Health Services For Patients
March/April (7 April 2009)
•Researchers Led By Leading Patient-Safety Analyst Working To Form Public-Private Alliance To Improve Patient Safety
March/April (31 March 2009)
•Thailand Had Achieved Near-Universal Coverage Under Its "30 Baht" Program
March/April (24 March 2009)
•Researchers Examine Lessons From California's Health Reform Efforts
March/April (19 March 2009)
•GlaxoSmithKline CEO Calls For Innovative Measures To Fight Neglected Diseases
March/April (17 March 2009)
•What Are The Lessons Of SCHIP For The New Round Of Health Reform?
March/April (10 March 2009)
•Health Affairs Explores Benefits, Challenges To Nation's Uptake Of Health Information Technology
March/April (9 March 2009)
•Health Affairs Series On Health IT And Economic Stimulus Plan Offers Lessons Learned, Potential Roadblocks To Adoption Amid Massive Federal Investment In Health IT
March/April (3 March 2009)
•African American Heart Attack Patients Are Disproportionately Likely To Be Admitted To High-Mortality Hospitals
January/February (24 February 2009)
•Study Offers Annual Estimates Of Health Spending By Medical Condition
January/February (24 February 2009)
•U.S. Health Spending Projected To Have Reached $2.4 Trillion In 2008
January/February (18 February 2009)
•Sweeping 2005 Medicaid Cuts In Missouri Led To Coverage Losses, Greater Uncompensated Care Burdens On Providers
January/February (10 February 2009)
•After California Implemented Minimum Nurse-Staffing Regulations, Wage For RNs Grew Faster In California Than In Other States
January/February (3 February 2009)
•Medicare Drug Benefit Reduced Costs For Seniors And Increased Their Use Of Essential Medications
January/February (27 January 2009)
•Can Payment, Other Innovations Improve Health Care?
January/February (16 January 2009)
•The Prospects For Health Reform: Leading Experts Outline A Health Policy Agenda For The Obama Administration And Congress
January/February (6 January 2009)
•Out-Of-Pocket Payments For Health Care Rose During Past Decade; Increase in Chronic Disease Played Key Role
November/December (16 December 2008)
•Introducing Pharmaceutical Price Controls Into U.S. Would Hurt Consumers, RAND Researchers Say
November/December (4 December 2008)
•Doctors, Dollars & Quality: A Health Affairs Web Exclusive Package
November/December (2 December 2008)
•Survey Reveals High Level Of Concern About Regulatory And Reimbursement Risk Among Venture Capitalists
November/December (24 November 2008)
•Expansion Of Medicare Private Health Plans Increases Medicare Costs, Adds Complexity Without Evidence Of Improving Care, Studies Published In Health Affairs Show
November/December (18 November 2008)
•Medicaid Payment Delays Deter Physician Participation
November/December (13 November 2008)
•New International Survey: More Than Half Of U.S. Chronically Ill Adults Skip Needed Care Due To Costs
November/December (10 November 2008) REVISED
•New Health Affairs Study Charts Dramatic Rise In Medical Imaging, Associated Health Care Spending
November/December (10 November 2008)
•Dramatic Rise In Medical Imaging Adds More Than $1.2 Million to Annual Medicare Bill, Says New Health Affairs Study
September/October (28 October 2008)
•Public Health Insurance Subsidies In Massachusetts Are Not Crowding Out Employer-Sponsored Coverage
September/October (21 October 2008)
•Harvard Analysts Dissect Five Myths About The American Health Insurance System
September/October (14 October 2008)
•Many Florida Medicaid Reform Enrollees Lacked Key Information About Medicaid Changes, Leading To Reported Difficulties With Choosing A Health Plan
September/October (7 October 2008)
•Spending For Mental Health And Substance Abuse Treatment Is Projected To Grow More Slowly Than All Health Spending Between 2003 And 2014
September/October (30 September 2008)
•Youth Exposure To Tobacco Advertising In Magazines Has Decreased Since Settlement Between States And Manufacturers
September/October (24 September 2008)
•Yearly Premiums For Family Health Coverage Rise To $12,680 In 2008, Up 5 Percent, As Many Workers Also Face Higher Deductibles
September/October (16 September 2008)
•Experts Critique McCain And Obama Health Plans
September/October (10 September 2008)
•Large Physician Groups Score Low On Key Measures Of "Medical Home" Approach To Care
July/August (3 September 2008)
•Supreme Court MetLife Decision May Lead To More Approved Employee Health Benefit Claims, And More Litigation Over Denied Claims
July/August (29 August 2008)
•Three Years After Katrina,Those Who Remain Displaced Receive Little Help For Chronic And Mental Health Needs
July/August (25 August 2008)
•Uninsured Currently Spend $30 Billion Out Of Pocket For Health Care; Government Dollars Pay For 75 Percent Of $56 Billion In Uncompensated Care
July/August (19 August 2008)
•Is Overreliance On Technical Standards Undermining Efforts To Use IT To Transform The U.S. Health System?
July/August (12 August 2008)
•Safety-Net Providers Adopt Strategies To Attract Higher-Paying Patients
July/August (5 August 2008)
•Enlarging Pre-Approval Clinical Trials Could Be A Cost-Effective Way Of Improving Drug Safety
July/August (29 July 2008)
•Public Sector Finances More Than Half Of U.S. Health Care: Government Financing Targets The Sickest And Oldest, Not Only The Poorest
July/August (22 July 2008)
•Number Of Working-Age Adults With Major Chronic Conditions Grew 25 Percent Over 10 Years; Access To Care Eroded The Most Among Uninsured
July/August (15 July 2008)
•Pilot Project Shows Potential Of Quality Improvement TechniquesTo Increase Public Health Emergency Preparedness
July/August (8 July 2008)
•China Facing Rapid Increase In Overweight, Obese Adults
May/June (24 June 2008)
•Covering Low-Income Americans Through Public Rather Than Private Health Insurance Would Lower Total Spending And Out-Of-Pocket Payments
May/June (17 June 2008)
•George Mason Scientists Say Determining Which Proteins Are Active During Diseases Could Allow Expensive Treatments To Be Better Targeted
May/June (10 June 2008)
•Insured But Poorly Protected: 25 Million Adults Are Underinsured; Number Up 60 Percent In 4 Years
May/June (3 June 2008)
•Uninsurance Rate Among Massachusetts Adults Fell By Almost Half In First Year After Landmark Reforms, Says New Urban Institute Study
May/June (28 May 2008)
•South Korean Pharmaceutical Reforms Failed To Reduce Costs
May/June (20 May 2008)
•Researchers Describe Going Beyond Limitations Of Current Physician Performance Measurement
May/June (13 May 2008)
•New Health Affairs Issue Focuses On Health Care Reform
March/April (6 May 2008)
•Workers In Fair Or Poor Health With Individual Health Insurance Are Less Likely to Become Uninsured Than Similar Workers With Small-Group Coverage
March/April (29 April 2008)
•The United States Faces A Shortage Of Generalist Physicians To Provide Primary Care For Adults
March/April (22 April 2008)
•Racial And Ethnic Health Disparities Linked To Physician Practice Resources
March/April (15 April 2008)
•Modest Number Of Uninsured Families Have Sufficient Assets To Cover Cost-Sharing In HSA-Qualified Plans
March/April (8 April 2008)
•Dutch And German Health Ministers Talk With Leading U.S. Analysts In Health Affairs Web Exclusive Interviews
March/April (1 April 2008)
•Treatment Gaps And Other Disruputions Increased After Maine Medicaid Program Instituted A "Prior Authorization" Requirement For Certain Schizophrenia Drugs
March/April (25 March 2008)
•Eliminating Medicare Waiting Period For All Disabled Workers Would Cover The Uninsured But Displace Private Insurance
March/April (18 March 2008)
•Physician-Owners Of Ambulatory Surgical Centers Siphon Off High-Paying Privately Insured Patients, say Researchers
March/April (11 March 2008)
•Black, Latino Children More Than 12 Times As Likely As White Children To Both Be Poor, Live In Poor Neighborhoods, Which May Negatively Affect Their Health
March/April (7 March 2008)
•James C. Robinson To Step Down As Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief And Return To Economics Chair At Berkeley
March/April (4 March 2008)
•Berenson Proposes New Method Of Paying Medicare Advantage Plans In Health Affairs Web Exclusive
January/February (26 February 2008)
•Health Care Spending Expected To Double By 2017, Reaching $4.3 Trillion And Consuming Nearly One-Fifth Of The Economy, Federal Report Says
January/February (20 February 2008)
•Coverage Losses Continued Even As The Economy Improved From 2004 Through 2006
January/February (12 February 2008)
•Variations In Hospital Treatment Intensity Are Important Across Different Hospital Patient Groups, Researchers Find In California Study
January/February (5 February 2008)
•Uninsured Californians Pay Net Hospital Prices Similar To Those Paid By Medicare, RAND Researchers Report
January/February (29 January 2008)
•State Coverage Expansions Could Lay The Groundwork For National Action, Say Researchers
January/February (23 January 2008)
•Americans Are Waiting Longer To See A Doctor In Hospital Emergency Departments, Harvard Medical School Researchers Report
January/February (15 January 2008)
•Americans Are Waiting Longer To See A Doctor In Hospital Emergency Departments, Harvard Medical School Researchers Report
January/February (8 January 2008)
•New Prescription Drug Benefit Fuels Fastest Growth In Medicare Spending In 25 Years, Say Federal Experts In Health Affairs Article
November/December (18 December 2007)
•Parity Legislation Could Actually Reduce Access To Mental Health Treatment If Out-Of-Network Benefits Are Not Guaranteed, Researchers Warn
November/December (11 December 2007)
•New Survey From Harvard Researchers Casts Serious Doubt On Future Of Regional Health Data Exchange
November/December (4 December 2007)
•HHS Secretary Leavitt: It's Time for The Federal Govenment To Use Its Buying Power to Promote Health IT Interoperability
November/December (27 November 2007)
•For New Cancer Drugs, Finding The Right Patients May Work Better Than Finding The Right Prices
November/December (14 November 2007)
•Massachusetts Business Express Support For Health Care Reform Objectives
November/December (6 November 2007)
•Changing Population Age-Mix Affects Health Care Costs Only Modestly, CMS Researchers Say
November/December (1 November 2007)
•Health Affairs Presents Award For Bipartisan Collaboration To Senators Max Baucus And Chuck Grassley
November/December (1 November 2007)
•Health Affairs Names Jack Wennberg As The Most Influential Health Policy Researcher Of Past Quarter-Century
November/December (1 November 2007)
•New Study: Medicare Part D Increases Medication Consumption By 158 Million Prescriptions, Costs Federal Government $32 Billion
November/December (1 November 2007)
•International Survey: U.S. Adults Most Likely To Report Medical Errors And Skip Needed Care Because Of Costs
September/October (23 October 2007)
•Include Substance Abuse Treatment In Parity Requirements, Say Yale Researchers
September/October (16 October 2007)
•Vermont's Catamount Health Reforms: The View From The Governor's Office
September/October (9 October 2007)
•Having Zero Adverse Events In Hospitals Is Now A Realistic Goal, Lucian Leape Says In Health Affairs Interview
September/October (2 October 2007)
•American Adults More Likely Than Europeans To Be Diagnosed With, Treated For Chronic Diseases
September/October (25 September 2007)
•Tackle Public Health And Poverty Together, Says Thai Policy Leader Who Has Led Efforts Against Population Growth, HIV/AIDS
September/October (18 September 2007)
•CMS Study: New England, Mideast Regions Spend Significantly More On Health Care Than Other States
September/October (11 September 2007)
•Expanding Health Insurrance To Uninsured Could Narrow Access And Quality Gaps For People Wiith Coverage, New Study Finds
July/August (29 August 2007)
•Two Years After Katrina, Are We Ready To Do Better When The Next Disaster Hits? No, Says One Gulf-Area Health Care Safety-Net Provider
July/August (21 August 2007)
•Study Finds That Medicare's Drug Benefit Greatly Increased Seniors' Coverage; Some Continue To Be Vulnerable To High Costs
July/August (16 August 2007)
•Covering Children Through SCHIP And Medicaid: A Success Story, But An Incomplete One
July/August (14 August 2007)
•States That Offer Generous Medicaid Coverage Of Children Should Be Allowed To Cover Young Adults Through SCHIP, Says Leading Expert On Program
July/August (7 August 2007)
•Fluidity In Eligibility Underlies Churning Into And Out Of Medicaid And SCHIP
July/August (1 August 2007)
•California Data Exchange Project Offers Valuable Lessons For National Health IT Efforts
July/August (26 July 2007)
•Simply Holding Onto Children Already Enrolled In Medicaid And SCHIP Could Cut Uninsurance In Children By One-Third
July/August (24 July 2007)
•The Consumer Revolution In Health Care Has Barely Begun
July/August (17 July 2007)
•Satisfaction With Health Status Is Consistent Around The World, Report Gallup CEO Jim Clifton And Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
July/August (16 July 2007)
•Paying For Health Care Out Of Pocket Impoverishes 150 Million Worldwide; Payment Systems Can't Help
July/August (10 July 2007)
•Health Affairs Article Details Care Redesign At Seattle Medical Center
May/June (26 June 2007)
•Pay-For-Performance In Medicaid Managed Care: Money Talks, But Only If There's Enough Of It, And Only If Plans Talk To Providers As Well
May/June (19 June 2007)
•Evidence-Based Medicine Should Focus On Evidence Of Value, Not Just Evidence Of Benefit, Say David Eddy And Sean Tunis
May/June (14 June 2007)
•Small-Group And Individual Health Coverage In California Is Becoming Less Affordable
May/June (7 June 2007)
•Health Benefits For Substance Abuse Treatment Still Lag Far Behind Coverage For General Medical Care
May/June (4 June 2007)
•What Makes Insurance 'Affordable'? States Must Look Beyond Premiums To All Health Spending, Say Researchers
May/June (22 May 2007)
•TennCare's Flawed Structure Doomed The Program Says Tennessee Governor
May/June (15 May 2007)
•Growth In Private Fee-For-Service Plans Accounts For Much Of The Increase In Choice Among Medicare Advantage Plans
May/June (8 May 2007)
•What's Riskier: Driving In A Car Or Taking Aspirin To Prevent A Heart Attack? New Health Affairs Study By Tufts-New England Medical Center Researchers Tries To Answer The Question
May/June (1 May 2007)
•Growth And Innovation In Medical Devices: A Conversation With Stryker Chairman John Brown
March/April (24 April 2007)
•Malpractice Premium Spike In Pennsylvania Did Not Decrease Physician Supply
March/April (17 April 2007)
•Physician Self-Refferal: Banned, But Surprisingly Common
March/April (10 April 2007)
•Pay-For-Performance And Public Quality Reporting: A Boon For Most, But A Potential Burden For The Most Vulnerable Patients
March/April (3 April 2007)
•Wide Gap Between Vision For E-Prescribing And Reality In Physician Practices; Physicians Report Major Barriers To Using Advanced E-Prescribing Features
March/April (27 March 2007)
•Going Beyond Health Care Availability In Lower-Income Countries: Researchers Focus On Measuring And Improving Quality Of Care In The Developing World
March/April (13 March 2007)
•Technology Can Lower Health Care Costs Through Disruptive Innovation, Says Harvard Researcher
March/April (6 March 2007)
•SCHIP's Advances Could Halt If Funding Does Not Increase, Warn Researchers In March-April Issue of Health Affairs
January/February 2007 (23 February 2007)
•Fundamental Medicaid Reform, Not Spending Cuts, Vital For Program's Continued Success, Say Analysts In Health Affairs Article
January/February 2007 (21 February 2007)
•Health Care Spending Projected To Pass $4 Trillion Mark By 2016
January/February 2007 (15 February 2007)
•Health Information Technology Will Enable Big Savings, But Much Work Remains To Be Done, Says Brailer
January/February 2007 (13 February 2007)
•Imaging Is Transforming The Practice Of Medicine, Say Experts From Industry And Academe
January/February 2007 (6 February 2007)
•Self-Pay Markets In Health Care: Consumer Nirvana Or Caveat Emptor?
January/February 2007 (30 January 2007)
•Cost-Sharing Levels Should Vary By Treatment Efficacy, Say Health Affairs Authors
January/February 2007 (26 January 2007)
•Researchers Call For Rapid Learning Through Electronic Health Records To Advance Knowledge, Improve Care
November/December 2006 (19 December 2006)
•Health Affairs Article Dissects The Rise And Fall Of The Oregon Health Plan
November/December 2006 (5 December 2006)
•Hospital-Physician Rift Leads To "Medical Arms Race" And Endangers Emergency Care, Berenson Says in Health Affairs Web Exclusive
November/December 2006 (30 November 2006)
•More Than Half Of Uninsured Americans Cannot Afford Coverage And Are Not Eligible For Public Programs
November/December 2006 (28 November 2006)
•The Health Insurance Industry Will Continue To Consolidate, Says WellPoint CEO
November/December 2006 (21 November 2006)
•More Medicare Part D Choices On The Way For 2007. But Dearth Of Full Coverage In "Doughnut Hole" To Persist
November/December 2006 (14 November 2006)
•Americans Value Health Plan Choice, Expanded Coverage As Long As They Don't Have To Pay: New Survey
November/December 2006 (7 November 2006)
•Wilensky Outlines Vision Of New Center For Comparative Effectiveness Information
November/December 2006 (2 November 2006)
•New International Survey Of Primary Care Physicians: Most U.S. Doctors Unable To Provide Patients Access To After-Hours Care; Half Lack Access To Drug Safety Alert System
September/October 2006 (24 October 2006)
•RAND Researchers Say Consumer-Directed Plans Can Save Money, But Effects On Quality Are Still Uncertain
September/October 2006 (17 October 2006)
•Public Wants Action On Health Care Costs And The Uninsured, Even Though Media Focus On Part D And Academics Write About Quality
September/October 2006 (12 October 2006)
•Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy
September/October 2006 (11 October 2006)
•Landmark Public-Private Effort Finds One Quarter Of Physicians Using Electronic Health Records, But Fewer Using Systems With Key Capabilities
September/October 2006 (26 September 2006)
•Health Care Spending Growth Stays In High-Altitude Holding Pattern In 2005
September/October 2006 (26 September 2006)
•Health Insurance Premium Growth Moderates Slightly In 2006, But Still Increases Twice As Fast As Wages And Inflation
September/October 2006 (20 September 2006)
•New Scorecard Offers Comprehensive View Of U.S. Health Care System And Finds Much Room For Improvement
September/October 2006 (14 September 2006)
•Massachusetts Health Reform Plan Offers Great Benefits, But Significant Challenges Remain
September/October 2006 (12 September 2006)
•Medicare Part D Greatly Expands Access To Cancer Treatments, Says Study In Health Affairs Biotech Theme Issue
September/October 2006 (6 September 2006)
•Under British Pay-For-Performance Initiative, Quality Is Unexpectedly High, But So Are Payments
July/August 2006 (29 August 2006)
•Hurricane Katrina Underscored The Need To Revamp The New Orleans Health Care System, Say Kaiser Authors In Health Affairs
July/August 2006 (22 August 2006)
•Medicare Beneficiaries Treated For Five Or More Chronic Conditions Account For Virtually All Program Spending Growth
July/August 2006 (15 August 2006)
•BiDil Is An Important Advance In The Fight Against Heart Failure's Disproportionate Toll On The Black Community, Researcher Says
July/August 2006 (8 August 2006)
•In Areas Where Cesareans Are More Frequent, The Operation Is Performed On Less Appropriate Patients
July/August 2006 (1 August 2006)
•New Study Confirms That Medicare Has Met Its 90 Percent Enrollment Goal For Medicare Part D
July/August 2006 (25 July 2006)
•Specialty-Service Lines: Salvos In The New Medical Arms Race
July/August 2006 (18 July 2006)
•Hospital Emergency Department Use Varies Greatly Across The United States
July/August 2006 (11 July 2006)
•In Health Affairs July/August Theme Issue On Public Health, Studies Question Whether Public Health Infrastructure Is Prepared For New Challenges
May/June 2006 (26 June 2006)
•Hospitals Steps Ease Nurse Shortage In Near Term, But Long-Term Worries Persist
May/June 2006 (22 June 2006)
•Health Affairs Founding Editor John Iglehart Receives AcademyHealth Chair Award
May/June 2006 (20 June 2006)
•Researchers Find That Impact Of Nonprofits, And Grounds for Tax Exemption, Range Far Beyond Care For Indigent
May/June 2006 (6 June 2006)
•In Comprehensive Look At Evidence-Based Drug Project, Neumann Says That Reviews Should Consider Cost-Effectiveness
May/June 2006 (23 May 2006)
•Researchers Find That Premiums And Coverage Vary Widely Among Medicare Drug Plans
May/June 2006 (18 May 2006)
•Hip And Knee Replacements Are Less Expensive Than Ever, Says Former Biomet President
May/June 2006 (16 May 2006)
•Expensive Biotech Drug Are Worth It, Says Caltech President Baltimore
May/June 2006 (9 May 2006)
•Erosion Of Community-Based Services For The Mentally Ill Reported In Health Affairs May/June Issue On Mental Health Care
May/June 2006 (8 May 2006)
•Study Says That AMA Data Belie Claims Of Medical Malpractice Premium Crisis
May/June 2006 (2 May 2006)
•Cutting Premiums Expands Coverage In Individual Market Only Modestly, Says RAND California Study
March/April 2006 (25 April 2006)
•Most States Have Used HIFA Waiver Process To Expand Coverage Without Cutting Benefits For Existing Enrollees
•Politics, Not Policy, Killed TennCare, Advocate Declares
March/April 2006 (18 April 2006)
•Public Employees' Health Benefits Weather Rising Costs and Tight Budgets
March/April 2006 (11 April 2006)
•Impact Of Community Initiatives On The Uninsured Limited By Economic and Political Obstacles
March/April 2006 (28 March 2006)
•Population Aging Plays Small Role In Growing Demand For Hospital Services
March/April 2006 (21 March 2006)
•Social Insurance Makes Markets Possible, Yale Scholars Say
March/April 2006 (14 March 2006)
•Biomedical Entrepreneur Working On Plan To Translate Basic Research Into Products
March/April 2006 (09 March 2006)
•Zerhouni Says Today's Curative Model Of Medical Practice Is Unsustainable
March/April 2006 (07 March 2006)
•Super-Resistant Malaria Strains Likely Without Global Subsidies Of Critical New Therapies, According To New Study In Health Affairs
January/February 2006 (28 February 2006)
•Medical Costs Contribute To Fewer Than One In Five Bankruptcies, Say Kellogg Management School Researchers.
January/February 2006 (22 February 2006)
•One In Every Five Dollars Devoted To Health Care By 2015; Federal Forecasters Predict That Health Spending Will Reach $4 Trillion in Ten Years.
January/February 2006 (14 February 2006)
•Information-Based Medicine Is Coming; IBM IT Exec Outlines Corporate Role In Bridging Gap Between Research and Practice
January/February 2006 (7 February 2006)
•Dartmouth Researchers Say Rising Health Care Costs Don't Necessarily Buy Better Health
January/February 2006 (31 January 2006)
•Daschle Calls For Comprehensive Health Care Reform; Sees Conditions As Increasingly Ripe For Change
January/February 2006 (24 January 2006)
•Americans Favor Quarantines To Combat Diseases, But Are Skeptical Of Tough Enforcement And Monitoring
January/February 2006 (17 January 2006)
•Are Adults Benefiting From State Health Insurance Expansions? Public Coverage Grows, But Sometimes At Expense Of Private Coverage
January/February 2006 (10 January 2006)
•Health Affairs January-February Issue Surveys Challenges Facing Hospitals
November/December 2005 (13 December 2005)
•Transparency Is Needed To Turn Consumer-Directed Health Care Into True Reform, Aetna CEO Says in Health Affairs Interview
November/December 2005 (6 December 2005)
•Economic Disparities Drive Widening Rift In Health Care Access And Quality
November/December 2005 (29 November 2005)
•Wide Benefits, Lack Of Cost Restraint, Crippled TennCare, Head Of Tennessee Blues Says In Health Affairs Article
November/December 2005 (16 November 2005)
•Health Affairs Article Shows Wide Variations In Treatment Of Chronically Ill Medicare Beneficiaries In California
November/December 2005 (10 November 2005)
•Well-Designed Consumer-Directed Health Plans Could Reduce The Number Of Uninsured Americans
November/December 2005 (3 November 2005)
•International Survey: U.S. Leads In Medical Errors
November/December 2005 (1 November 2005)
•Losses In Employer-Sponsored Insurance Lead To Increase In Uninsurance Rates Between 2000 and 2004
September/October 2005 (25 October 2005)
•Physicians More Likely To Treat Less Acute, More Profitable Patients In Less Specialty Hospitals That They Own Health Affairs Article Says
September/October 2005 (18 October 2005)
•Health Affairs Article Proposes Increase In FDA User Fees To Finance Drug-Safety Analyses
September/October 2005 (11 October 2005)
•Approval Of Drug Marketed To African Americans Raises Political And Economic Issues, Clouds Understanding of Health Disparities
September/October 2005 (4 October 2005)
•New Proposal Provides Comprehensive Benefits Option For Medicare Beneficiaries
September/October 2005 (26 September 2005)
•Medical Innovations Will Result In Better
Health And Longer Life, But Will Increase, Not Decrease, Elderly Spending
September/October 2005 (14 September 2005)
•Widespread Adoption Of Health Information Technology Could Save $162 Billion A Year, Says RAND Study, But The Federal Government Needs To Help
July/August 2005 (7 September 2005)
•Trend Toward Competition Among Individual Providers Could Further Fragment Market, Reduce Continuity Of Care
July/August 2005 (30 August 2005)
•Survey Detects Variations In Response Speed Among Public Health Agencies, Despite Federal Guidelines
July/August 2005 (23 August 2005)
•New Analysis Shows That PPO Incentives Will Cost Medicare $60 Billion Over Ten Years
July/August 2005 (16 August 2005)
•States Took Short-Term Actions To Close Gaps In Medicaid Spending, But Legislators Still Face Deficits, Health Affairs Article Says
July/August 2005 (9 August 2005)
•When The Price Isn't Right: How Inaccurate Payments Drive Expensive Medical Care
July/August 2005 (4 August 2005)
•Top Pentagon Health Care Official Weighs In On Medical Staffing, Prisoner Abuse In Health Affairs Interview
July/August 2005 (2 August 2005)
•Global Health Organizations Need To Address Funding, Systems Address Widespread Disease Threats, Development Official Says
July/August 2005 (26 July 2005)
•Health Affairs Marks Medicare, Medicaid Fortieth Anniversaries With Commentaries From Seven Former Administrators
July/August 2005 (12 July 2005)
•Higher Prices, Not Defensive Medicine Or Waiting Lists, Explain Why U.S. Health Care Spending Is So High
May/June 2005 (27 June 2005)
•New Health Affairs Study: Private Insurance Spending On Health Problems Caused By Obesity Increased Tenfold In Fifteen Years, From $3.6 Billion to $36.5 Billion
May/June 2005 (21 June 2005)
•Reprieve from Faster-Growing Health Care Spending Stalled in 2004
May/June 2005 (14 June 2005)
•New Study: At Least 16 Million Adults With Health Insurance Lack Adequate Coverage; Number Of Uninsured And Underinsured Adults Estimated At 61 Million
May/June 2005 (7 June 2005)
•New Health Affairs Study: Federal Health Coverage Expansion Proposals Have Disparate Impact Across States.
May/June 2005 (31 May 2005)
•Malpractice Crisis Under The Microscope: New Health Affairs Study Finds That Malpractice Payouts Have Not Grown Substantially.
May/June 2005 (17 May 2005)
•California Employers, Workers Cool To High-Deductible Health Plans, Although Firms Consider Them As Option, Health Affairs Article Says.
May/June 2005 (10 May 2005)
•New Health Affairs Issue Assesses Vaccine Shortages; Calls Pediatric Vaccine Supply Precarious
May/June 2005 (3 May 2005)
•Urban, Coastal Areas Drove Passage Of California's Landmark Tax To Support Mental Health Services.
March/April 2005 (26 April 2005)
•Health Affairs Article Outlines Challenges For Demonstration Projects Authorized Under 2003 Medicare Law
March/April 2005 (19 April 2005)
•Medicare Drug Benefit Will Help Seniors, But Chronically Ill Will Pay More Than Average Enrollee, Health Affairs Article Says
March/April 2005 (5 April 2005)
•More Than One In Four Workers Will Be Uninsured In 2013 As Coverage Becomes More Unaffordabe, Health Affairs Article Says
March/April 2005 (29 March 2005)
•Prescription Drugs Replace Inpatient Mental Health Treatment With The Introduction Of New Medications And Cost Pressures
March/April 2005 (23 March 2005)
•Authors Propose Universal Coverage Plan Using Federal Health Plan And Medicaid, Financed By New Value-Added Tax
March/April 2005 (15 March 2005)
•Death Rates Lower In Areas With More Primary Care Physicians, But Not Specialists, Health Affairs Article Says
March/April 2005 (9 March 2005)
•New Health Affairs Issue Assesses Progress Made In Eliminating Health Disparities
March/April 2005 (1 March 2005)
•Health Care A 'Second-Tier' Issue In 2004 Election, Trailing Values, Economy, And War, Health Affairs Article Says
January/February 2005 (23 February 2005)
•Medicare Drug Benefit Raises Public-Sector Contributions To Health Care Spending
January/February 2005 (2 February 2005)
•Middle-Class Workers With Health Coverage Represent Most Medical Bankruptcies In America, Health Affairs Article Says
January/February 2005 (26 January 2005)
•A Sharp Rise In Enrollment During The Economic Downturn Triggered Medicaid Spending To Increase By One-Third From FY2000-2003
January/February 2005 (25 January 2005)
•Cardiovascular Disease And Its Risk Factors Jeopardize Middle-Aged Populations, Economic Growth In Developing Countries
January/February 2005 (19 January 2005)
•More Compatible Health Care Information Systems Could Yield $77.8 Billion In Savings Every Year, Health Affairs Article Says
January/February 2005 (11 January 2005)
•Health Spending Grows At Slowest Pace In Seven Years; Health Care Bill Still Reaches $1.7 Trillion
November/December 2004 (21 December 2004)
•Health Affairs Receives Grant From The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation To Expand Publication Of Global Health Research And Analysis
November/December 2004 (15 December 2004)
•Medicare Modernization Act Undermines Fee-For-Service Program By Overpaying Managed Care Plans, Health Affairs Article Says
November/December 2004 (8 December 2004)
•Means-Testing Expensive Health Technologies Could Improve Medicare's Long-Term Finances, Health Affairs Article Says
November/December 2004 (30 November 2004)
•U.S. Health Care System Earns C+ For Patient Safety
November/December 2004 (17 November 2004)
•Health Affairs Supports Goal of Improved Access to Research; Voices Concerns on NIH Plan Details
•Nurse Workforce Growing, Yet Long-Term Shortage Still Looms On Horizon, Health Affairs Article Says
November/December
2004 (10 November 2004)
•Survey Finds Many Health Care Consumers Willing To Accept Limits On Service Use In Exchange For Lower Costs
September/October 2004 (28 October 2004)
•Patients Report Barriers To Primary Care, Lab Test Errors Or Delays, International Survey In Five Nations Reveals
September/October 2004 (20 October 2004)
•Obesity Accounts For Nearly 30 Percent Of Overall Health Spending Increase Since 1987, Health Affairs Analysis Says
September/October 2004 (13 October 2004)
•Average Uninsured Workers' Pay Could Drop After California's 'Play-Or-Pay' Health Insurance Law
September/October 2004 (7 October 2004)
•Dartmouth Studies Show Wide Variations In Hospital Care And Outcomes For Chronically Ill Medicare Patients
September/October 2004 (29 September 2004)
•Generic-Only Coverage In Medicare HMOs Leads To Higher Out-Of-Pocket Costs, Lower Drug Use For Enrollees, Health Affairs Study Says
September/October 2004 (14 September 2004)
•New Survery: Majority Of Americans Say Health Care Needs Of Children And The Elderly Are Not Being Met
July/August 2004 (25 August 2004)
•Significant Rise In Number Of People Treated For Mental Disorders And Selected Chronic Illnesses Driving Up Health Spending
July/August 2004 (11 August 2004)
•Driven By Rising Costs, Managed Care Plans Dust Off Practices That Triggered 1990s Backlash, Health Affairs Article Says
July/August 2004 (28 July 2004)
•Differences In Demand Drive Differences In Generic Dispensing Rates Between Retail Pharmacies And PBMs, Health Affairs Article Says
July/August 2004 (21 July 2004)
•Reducing Drug Prices To Those Of France, Canada, And The U.K. Would Allow Medicare To Eliminate The 'Doughnut Hole'
July/August 2004 (14 July 2004)
•Survey Reveals 'Mismatch' Between Workers' Expectations And Reality Of Employer-Provided Retiree Health Benefits
July/August 2004 (7 July 2004)
•Malpractice Pressures Dampening Physician Satisfaction, Hurting Patient Care, Study Says
May/June 2004 (23 June 2004)
•Medicaid Physician Fees Outpace Inflation From 1998 To 2003, But Still Lag Behind Those Of Medicare
May/June 2004 (16 June 2004)
•Average Medicaid Nursing Home Payment Rates Outpace Inflation, Although Some States Are More Stingy, Health Affairs Article Says
May/June 2004 (9 June 2004)
•Health Care Spending Growth in 2003 Posts First Major Slowdown in a Decade
May/June 2004 (2 June 2004)
•Workforce Characteristics A Bigger Influence On Coverage Rates Than State Policies, Health Affairs Article Says
May/June 2004 (25 May 2004)
•Access To Patient Information, Safeguards Against Commercial Bias Keys To Electronic Prescribing, Expert Panel Says
May/June 2004 (19 May 2004)
•Insurers Drop Utilization Review, Adopt Medical Management To Moderate Costs, Enhance Quality Of Care, Health Affairs Analysis Says
May/June 2004 (4 May 2004)
•U.S. Health Spending Continues To Outpace International Health Spending Despite The Spread Of Managed Care
March/April 2004 (28 April 2004)
•Drug Advertising Leads To New Treatments, Lifestyle Changes, and Prescriptions For Advertised Pharmaceuticals
March/April 2004 (21 April 2004)
•Employers Say Consumer-Driven Health Plans Likely To Grow, But Have Concerns That Sicker Employees Won't Enroll
March/April 2004 (14 April 2004)
•Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Program Could Save All Seniors Without Drug Coverage A Total Of $1 Billion
March/April 2004 (7 April 2004)
•New Study: States With Higher Medicare Spending Offer Lower-Quality Care
March/April 2004 (24 March 2004)
•New Health Affairs Papers Compare The Costs Of Universal Coverage With The Social Costs Of Uninsurance
March/April 2004 (24 March 2004)
•Study Says Patient Access, Capacity Keeping Pace With Demand At Emergency Departments In California
Media Advisory (17 March 2004)
•Free Access To Science: A Model For The Dissemination Of Scientific Literature
March/April 2004 (17 March 2004)
•Employer Mandate Strongly Supported By Working-Age Americans And Californians, Survey Says
March/April 2004 (9 March 2004)
•Continuing Obesity Epidemic Could Increase Disability Rates By 2020
March/April 2004 (9 March 2004)
•New Study: Medicaid Expansions Represent Best Way To Stop Erosion Of Health Insurance Coverage For Working Poor Parents; But Price Tag Is In The Billions
March/April 2004 (9 March 2004)
•New Studies Show Financial Challenges Lead Physicians to Cut Back in Services and Increase Costs, Making it More Difficult for Patients to Obtain Care
January/February Web Exclusive (25 February 2004)
•Federal Government Will Forgo $188.5 Billion In Tax Revenue Through Favorable Treatment Of Health Care Benefits
January/February Web Exclusive (11 February 2004)
•Seniors' Insurance Coverage, Not Need, Bigger Determinant For Prescriptions Of Costly Pain Relievers For Arthritis
January/February Web Exclusive (11 February 2004)
•Although Slowing, Health Care Spending Growth Projected To Nearly Double In The Next Decade, Health Affairs Article Says
January/February Web Exclusive (4 February 2004)
•Group Practices Serving HMOs Employ Fewer Doctors Per Enrollee Than The National Rate, Health Affairs Article Says
January/February Web Exclusive (28 January 2004)
•Unemployment And Changes In Employment Patterns Explain Rising Rates Of Uninsured, Health Affairs Article Says
January/February Web Exclusive (21 January 2004)
•Malpractice Insurance Premiums Lower In States With Caps On Damage Awards, According To Health Affairs Analysis
January/February 2004 (14 January 2004)
•Survey Finds Increasing Health Costs For Retirees And continued Erosion Of Benefits With Sustained Cost Increases, One In Three Of All Surveyed Employers Have Hit Or Will Soon Hit Cap On Retiree Health Obligations
January/February 2004 (8 January 2004)
•Survey The Landscape Of The Pharmaceutical Industry In The January/February Health Affairs
November/December 2003 (17 December 2003)
•Staffing Levels, Not User Fees, Responsible For Decline In Prescription Drug Approval Times, Health Affairs Study Says
November/December 2003 (10 December 2003)
•Focus On Costly Beneficiaries To Control Medicare Cost Growth, Health Affairs Article Says
November/December 2003 (3 December 2003)
•African Americans Rate Health Issues More Vital Than Whites Do; Are More Dissatisfied With System And Worried About Coverage
November/December 2003 (19 November 2003)
•People Eligible For Medicaid Personal Care Services Get More Home Care And Use Nursing Homes Less When They Direct Their Own Care, Study Finds
November/December 2003 (12 November 2003)
•Influx Of Older And Foreign-Born Workers Slows Five-Year Hospital Nursing Shortage
September/October 2003 (29 October 2003)
•International Prescription Drug Price Differentials Roughly Track Income Differences, Health Affairs Article Says
September/October 2003 (22 October 2003)
•Federal Government Should Suspend Small Pox Vaccinations, Learn From Failure Of First Phase, Health Affairs Article Says
September/October 2003 (15 October 2003)
•Better Chronic Illness Management, Incentives For Improved Quality More Likely Among California Physician Groups
September/October 2003 (8 October 2003)
•Market Conditions Can Allow Providers To Shift Costs To Private Payers To Offset Government Cuts, Health Affairs Article Says
September/October 2003 (24 September 2003)
•Tax Credit Would Cover Only Part Of The Cost Of Buying Many Individual Insurance Policies In California
September/October 2003 (9 September 2003)
•Governors' Involvement Could Be Key To Reform Of Fragmented Mental Health System, Says Presidential Commission Chairman
July/August 2003 Web Exclusive (27 August 2003)
•Problem Of Uninsured Still Troubles Most Americans But Raising Taxes Remains A Sticking Point
July/August 2003 Web Exclusive (13 August 2003)
•Higher Utilization, Lower Death Rate For Florida's Medicare Enrollees Raises Questions About Equity, Quality, Patients' Preferences
July/August 2003 Web Exclusive (26 July 2003)
•Population-Based Disease Management Could Improve Quality, Lower Costs In Medicare, But Needs To Be Tested
July/August 2003 Web Exclusive (23 July 2003)
•New Study: Dramatic Decline In Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance And Prescription Drug Coverage For New Retirees
July/August 2003 Web Exclusive (16 July 2003)
•To Fix Medicaid, Federal Government Should Increase State Payments Or Start New Federal Insurance Program, Health Affairs Article Says
July/August 2003 Web Exclusive (8 July 2003)
•New Study Finds That Coverage Restrictions Keep Many Physicians From Offering Patients Useful Medical Services
July/August 2003 Web Exclusive (8 July 2003)
•The Benefits Of Technology Have Limited Reach
May/June 2003 Web Exclusive (25 June 2003)
•Strategies To Improve Funding For Health Services Research Led Both To The Creation Of AHCPR And To Its Near-Demise Six Years Later
May/June 2003 Web Exclusive (18 June 2003)
•One In Ten Requests For Health Insurance Coverage Denied In Utilization Review Process, Health Affairs Article Says
May/June 2003 Web Exclusive (11 June 2003)
•Health Care Spending Pace In 2002 Slowed Slightly But Remained High
May/June 2003 Web Exclusive (4 June 2003)
•Study Estimates That Coverage Of The Uninsured Would Use Additional Care Amounting To A 3-6 Percent Increase In Health Spending
May/June 2003 Web Exclusive (28 May 2003)
•To Bring Health Care Costs Back Under Control, Employers Should Create Multiple-Plan Exchanges, Health Affairs Article Says
May/June 2003 Web Exclusive (21 May 2003)
•Public Subsidies For Health Insurance Premiums Should Include Small-Firm Coverage, Not Just Individual Policies, Health Affairs Article Says
May/June 2003 (14 May 2003)
•Obesity, Overweight Conditions Contribute As Much As $93 Billion To National Medical Bill
May/June 2003 (6 May 2003)
•New Study: United States Spends Substantially More On Health Care Than Any Other Country; Yet Does Not Provide More Services
March/April 2003 Web Exclusive (15 April 2003)
•Medicaid Recipients With Disabilities Benefit From Directing Their Own Personal Care Services, Study Finds
March/April 2003 Web Exclusive (9 April 2003)
•Uninsured Cancer Patients Receive Less Care But Spend More Out Of Pocket Than Privately Insured Patients
March/April 2003 Web Exclusive (2 April 2003)
•Managed Care And Competition Unlikely To Generate Sufficient Savings To Address Medicare's Fiscal Concerns
March/April 2003 Web Exclusive (19 March 2003)
•Hospital Tier Insurance Plans May Save Employees Money, But May Burden Health Care System With Complexity
March/April 2003 (11 March 2003)
•Rapid Increase In Litigation Against Nursing Homes Raises Concerns About Quality Of Care For Residents
March/April 2003 Web Exclusive (05 March 2003)
•In Health Affairs Interview, Breaux Outlines Plan To Cover Uninsured, Says It Would Supplant Employer-Sponsored Insurance 'Over Time.'
January/February 2003 Web Exclusive (26 February 2003)
•Survey: Direct-To-Consumer Drug Advertising Results In More Physicians Discussions, New Diagnoses, Recommendations
January/February 2003 Web Exclusive (12 February 2003)
•U.S. Spent $35 Billion In 2001 To Care For The Uninsured With Government Picking Up Most Of The Tab
January/February 2003 Web Exclusive (07 February 2003)
•National Health Expenditures Expected To Reach $3.1 Trillion By 2012, Significantly Outpacing Economic Growth
January/February 2003 Web Exclusive (22 January 2003)
•New Payments, Benefits Could Help Medicare Better Address Needs Of Chronically Ill - Health Affairs Article
January/February 2003 (08 January 2003)
•Health Care Spending Reaches $1.4 Trillion in 2001 Fastest Increase In 10 Years
November/December 2002 Web Exclusive (11 December 2002)
•Health Care Issues Played Modest Role In Mid-Term Election
November/December 2002 Web Exclusive (4 December 2002)
•Higher Drug Cost-Sharing Saves Money for Retiree Health Plans, But Enrollees Pay More; Drug Utilization Isn't Necessarily Reduced
November/December 2002 Web Exclusive (20 November 2002)
•'Consumer-Driven' Health Plans Join Insurance Mainstream, Become Essential to Big Insurers' Business Strategy
November/December 2002 (12 November 2002)
•Landmark Study Shows That Air Pollution Plays Significant Role In Increasing Health Care Use Of Older Adults
•Insurance Coverage Alone For Smoking-Cessation Drugs Does Not Increase Quit Rates, New Study Finds
•November/December Issue Of Health Affairs Devoted To Public Health And Bioterrorism
September/October 2002 Web Exclusive (23 October 2002)
•Despite Problems, Individual Health Insurance Market Works Acceptably Well For Most Buyers
September/October 2002 Web Exclusive (9 October 2002)
•Survey: Medicare Beneficiaries Report Greater Satisfaction, Better Access To Care Than Enrollees In Employer Sponsored Plans
September/October 2002 Web Exclusive (25 September 2002)
•Spending On Hospital Care Drives Double-Digit Jump In Health Costs
September/October 2002 Web Exclusive (5 September 2002)
•New Studies Show Health Care Professions In Short Supply, Putting Patient Care And Safety Risk
•Highlights Of Studies Appearing In The September/October Issue Of Health Affairs
July/August 2002 Web Exclusive (28 August 2002)
• State Laws Requiring Insurers To Renew Individual Health Coverage Make More Drastic Market Intrusion Unecessary, Health Affairs Article Says
July/August 2002 Web Exclusive (14 August 2002)
•Cost, Availability Of Insurance And Drugs Top Health Care Worries, But Economy And Terrorism Are Voters' Highest Priorities
July/August 2002 Web Exclusive (31 July 2002)
•New Survey Of Seniors In Eight States Finds Nearly One In Four Skipping Doses Or Not Filling Prescriptions Due To Cost
July/August 2002 Web Exclusive (17 July 2002)
• Medicare+Choice Bills May Stop Exodus Of Plans, But Are Not Likely To Expand Enrollment In HMOs
July/August 2002 (9 July 2002)
•States Need To Do Better Job Of Regulating Outpatient Care, Particularly In Sites That Perform Surgery. - Analysis Reveals Serious Oversight Gaps That Put Patients At Risk
•Highlights Of Studies Appearing In The July/August Issue Of Health Affairs
•New Federal Study Shows Sharp Increases In Prescription Rates Across All Ages And In Nearly All Specialties; At Current Rate Drug Spending Would Double In Next Five Years. - Increased Prescribing Linked To More Older Patients, More Multiple Conditions, New Drug Choices, Medical Payment And Delivery Systems, And Direct Marketing To Consumers May/June 2002 Web Exclusive (19 June 2002)
•Study: Higher Cost Sharing Saves Employers More Than Benefit Cuts. - But Health Affairs Article Warns Of Potential Market Disruption, Consumer Backlash And Harm To The Low-Income Chronically Ill
May/June 2002 Web Exclusive (5 June 2002)
• Expert: Bioterrorism Funded In 'Knee-Jerk' Fashion. - Pentagon Adviser Says Lawmakers Haven't Developed Realistic Plan To Combat Threat of Biological Agents
May/June 2002 Web Exclusive (22 May 2002)
•States' Fiscal Struggles Haven't Led To Big Medicaid Cuts. - Health Affairs article says states reducing optional benefits, trimming provider payments
May/June 2002 (14 May 2002)
•One World, Many Health Care Challenges. - Health Affairs Special Issue Profiles International Health System Change
March/April 2002 (12 March 2002)
• Patient Trust Is Not Harmed When HMOs Pay Doctors A Bonus For Holding Down Costs
•New Study: Health Problems Linked To Obesity Outrank The Medical Problems And Costs Of Smoking And Heavy Drinking.
• Tobacco Companies Finding Easy Way Around Magazine Advertising Ban To Target Youth. - New Study Shows Major Flaws In 1998 Agreement.
• Effects Of Health On Wealth Are Strong; But Causal Mechanisms, Policy Implications Are Complex & Controversial. - Special Issue Explores Nonmedical Factors In Depth.
January/February 2002 (8 January 2002)
•Health Spending Reaches $1.3 Trillion In 2000. - Hospital Spending Main Culprit Driving Up Health Costs. Prescription Drug Expenditures Growing at Double-Digit Rates.
• Number Of Americans With Job-Based Benefits Grew Through Early 2001, Despite Higher Benefit Costs. - Largest Increases In Coverage Occurred In Wholesale And Retail Trade Industries.
• Highlights Of Studies Appearing In The January/February Issue Of Health Affairs.
November/December 2001 (13 November 2001)
•Management Of Chronic Illnesses Poses Complex Problems For U.S. Health Care System. - Treatment Alone For Five Conditions Costs $62 Billion A Year; Uninsured Are Hardest Hit, According To New Health Affairs Studies
•Public Attitudes Toward Health Care Problems Change Dramatically As A Result Of Sept. 11. Polls Show Health Care Policy Issues Now A Lower Priority; Americans Become Concerned About Health Care Problems Resulting From Bioterrorism.
September/October 2001 Web Exclusive (10 October 2001)
•Medicare reform unlikely to save government much money. Raising Beneficiary Premiums Seen As Only Way To Achieve Cost Savings; Reforming Medicare+Choice Would Yield Other Benefits
September/October 2001 Web Exclusive (26 September 2001)
•Hospital Spending Drives Largest Health Care Cost Increase In A Decade; Prescription Drug Spending, While Still High, Slows in 2000
September/October 2001 (6 September 2001)
•Primary Care Physicians Rank Top Medical Innovations In Order Of Value To Their Patients; On Average, Innovations To Treat Cardiovascular Disease Ranked Significantly Higher
•Is Medical Innovation Worth The Cost? How Will New Treatments In The R&D Pipeline Be Paid For?
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