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How Community-Based Organizations Can Support Value-Driven Health Care
As our health care system transforms more quickly than ever from paying for volume to paying for value, providers have strong incentives to ensure that their patients’ care plans are reinforced and...
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Reducing Practice Variation At Crystal Run Healthcare
Research has shown wide variation in per capita spending among different states and among different counties within the same state. Some of this variation can be explained by the health status of the...
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The Forgotten Chronic Disease: Mental Health Among Teens And Young Adults
Deadly chronic conditions garner much attention from health care providers and researchers seeking to prevent cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. However, often forgotten or overlooked are mental...
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Measuring What Matters In Primary Care
Editor’s Note: This is one of several posts Health Affairs Blog is publishing stemming from sessions at the June 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Minneapolis. What Do We Mean By...
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Lessons From More Than A Decade In Patient Portals
Many of us look forward to a time when the experience of interacting with our health care providers will be as consumer-friendly and technology-enabled as, for example, using an ATM or Uber. The vision...
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Milestones On The Path To Population Health
Use of the term “population health” has surged in recent years. Much of this enthusiasm has been driven by the idea that health reform would restructure incentives and unite the priorities of health...
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Medicare Help At Home
Nine million community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries—about one-fifth of all beneficiaries—have serious physical or cognitive limitations and require long-term services and supports (LTSS) that are...
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Nondiscrimination And Chronic Conditions — The Final Section 1557 Regulation
Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), those with serious or chronic health conditions were often denied health insurance coverage or paid high prices for substandard plans with coverage exclusions....
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Health Policy Brief: Telehealth Parity Laws
A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines telehealth parity laws in the United States. With 20 percent of Americans living in areas that have physician...
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Health Affairs Web First: New ACA Coverage Enrollees Increased Prescription...
While there is evidence that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) coverage expansion provisions have increased the number of Americans covered by health insurance, less information exists about how new...
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How Community Partnerships Can Help End Food Insecurity (Part 1)
Widely prevalent but rarely discussed clinically, food insecurity (FI) in the United States is a preventable condition in need of attention and creative, multidisciplinary solutions. Defined as a...
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How Community Partnerships Can Help End Food Insecurity (Part 2)
In our previous post, we describe how the policy climate has begun to change in a way that may allow stronger partnerships between medical and hunger-relief organizations. Here, in part two, we take a...
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