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• How The ACA Would Have Cut 2001-08 Out-Of-Pocket Spending Under Individual Coverage -May 18th, 2012
  Currently, individual health insurance typically has less generous benefits than employment-related insurance. However, under th[...]
  
  
• The Latest Health Wonk Review -May 18th, 2012
  A belated tip of the hat to Hank Stern’s  Health Wonk Review at Insure Blog. Hank offers a nice collection of posts, incl[...]
  
  
• Health Policy Brief: Workplace Wellness Programs -May 18th, 2012
  A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines trends in workplace wellness progr[...]
  
  
• Wide Variations Found In Knee Replacement Surgery Costs And Quality -May 15th, 2012
  Knee osteoarthritis is a common ailment—and treatment is expensive: in 2008 total knee replacement inpatient costs in the Unit[...]
  
  
• Medicare Spending Issues Are A Focus Of New Health Affairs Issue -May 15th, 2012
  To calculate physicians’ fees under Medicare—which in turn influence private payers’ decisions on how they will pay doctor[...]
  
  
• The Most Recent Health Wonk Review -May 15th, 2012
  The most recent Health Wonk Review is available at Wing of Zock, the blog of the American Academy Of Medical Colleges. Jennifer [...]
  
  
• Health Policy Brief: Essential Health Benefits -May 11th, 2012
  A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looks at essential health benefits–th[...]
  
  
• Trends In The Adoption Of Health Information Technology -May 11th, 2012
  In 2011 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began offering incentives to providers who demonstrated “meaningful use[...]
  
  
• Improving Care For The ‘Dual Eligibles’ -May 11th, 2012
  There are nearly nine million people in the United States who receive both Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Recent cost estimates[...]
  
  
• Health Affairs Briefing: Trends In The Adoption Of Health Information Technology -May 9th, 2012
  On Wednesday, April 25, Health Affairs will hold a briefing on the subjects of recent trends in health information technology ad[...]
  
  
• Implementing Health Reform: The Premium Tax Credit Final Rule -May 9th, 2012
  At the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care reforms are the premium tax credits, which will extend health insuranc[...]
  
  
• Medicare Physician Payment: A Hollow Victory For The RUC -May 9th, 2012
  On May 9th, William Nickerson, Senior Judge in the Southern Maryland Federal District Court, issued a 15 page ruling against the[...]
  
  
• Implementing Health Reform: State-Based, Partnership, And Federally Facilitated Exchanges -May 7th, 2012
  On May 16, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services moved three steps closer to the implementation of the Affordable Ca[...]
  
  
• Remembering Larry Lewin: A Legacy Of Accomplishment And Mentorship -May 7th, 2012
  On April 29, 2012, four days after his 74th birthday, Larry Lewin (pictured below) died from complications of an underlying canc[...]
  
  
• Electronic Prescribing: Where We Stand And Lessons For Policymakers -May 7th, 2012
  Editor’s note: For more on the adoption of electronic health systems, see these recent Health Affairs articles by Decker a[...]
  
  
• Early Lessons From A Shared Risk, Integrated Care Organization Serving A Commercial Population -May 1st, 2012
  Background:  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ designation of 32 accountable care organizations (ACOs) across t[...]
  
  
• When Epidemiology Goes Astray: Valuing Cancer Care In The United States And Europe -May 1st, 2012
  In a recent Health Affairs paper, we documented that the United States has a significant survival advantage over much of Europe [...]
  
  
• Implementing Health Reform: The Minimum Loss Ratio & Summary Of Benefits And Coverage -May 1st, 2012
  The two most significant—and controversial–Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance reforms of 2012 are the minimum medical l[...]
  
  
• Implementing Health Reform: Increasing Medicaid Payments For Primary Care Physicians -April 26th, 2012
  On May 9, 2012, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services released proposed regulations to implement section 1202 of the Hea[...]
  
  
• Get A Grippe: Lessons Learned From The Controversy Over Publication Of Pandemic Flu Research -April 26th, 2012
  If one were to try and identify what issue has most roiled the biomedical community in the past few months it is surely the effo[...]