New From Health Affairs
New Issue May 2013
Tackling The Cost Conundrum
ENTRY POINT
After CLASS
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF
Workplace Wellness Programs (Updated)
Recent Issue April 2013
The 'Triple Aim' Goes Global
- May 15, 2013Web First
Cancer Patients and Bankruptcy
- A study of adults 18 and older in Washington State found that between 1995 and 2009 cancer patients were 2.65 times more likely to file for bankruptcy than people without cancer.
- May 13, 2013Health Reform
Tracking The ACA's Implementation
- Timothy Jost continues his series on implementing health reform with a post on guidance regarding Medicaid DSH payments, the Utah exchange, and more.
- May 08, 2013Health Philanthropy
Covering Grantmakers In Health
- Lee-Lee Prina reports on Nicole Lurie's remarks on disaster preparedness and other presentations at a gathering of groups that fund health and health policy research.
- May 08, 2013HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS
Premiums And Health Reform
- Cori Uccello examines the factors that will influence health insurance premiums in different states under the Affordable Care Act.
Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care (Updated)
- Federal and state laws and other policies limit how these professionals can help meet the growing need for primary care.May 15, 2013
Essential Health Benefits (Updated)
- States have determined the minimum set of benefits to be included in individual and small-group insurance plans. What's next?May 02, 2013
To Cover Their Child, One Couple Navigates A Health Insurance Maze In Pennsylvania
Two graduate students fight the bureaucracy to gain coverage for their son under the Children's Health Insurance Program-and hope that provisions of the Affordable Care Act will cut the red tape.
Recording on iTunes U
- This week's free recording in our Conversations collection, is a recent WTOP-FM interview with Chapin White, whose study appears in the May issue.
Current Issue
- From the Founding Editor
- Entry Point: Long-Term Care Commission
- Is The Slowdown Permanent?
- Recalculating Spending Projections
- Medicare And Global Payments
- Medicare Savings In Postacute Care
- Supplemental Coverage And Spending Growth
- How To Sustain Medicare
- Reforming Medicare
- The Medicare Essential Option
- Standardized Clinical Assessments
- Updating Bundled Payments
- Recession And Behavioral Health Spending
- View Table of Contents »
- Where Was The Leadership? The Questions Raised By Jonathan Welch’s Narrative Matters Essay 21 May 2013
- Implementing Health Reform: Preexisting Condition Insurance Plan & Medicaid/CHIP Renewal 20 May 2013
- Narrative Matters: Navigating The Coverage Maze In Pennsylvania 17 May 2013
- Saving Money While Providing Benefit In Medicare: A Standard Applied Only To Hospice 16 May 2013
- Hospital Charges And The Need For A Maximum Price Obligation Rule For Emergency Department & Out-Of-Network Care 16 May 2013
- Foundation Blogs Round-Up: Medicare, Environmental Health, Patient-Centered Care, and More 16 May 2013
- Nicole Lurie speech on emergency preparedness; health reform session: 2013 GIH meeting tidbits 09 May 2013
- Poll: Many Adults in One State Think Voters Should Decide Whether Marijuana for Medical Use Is Legalized 05 May 2013
- Gates Foundation and Partners Launch New Strategy for Eradicating Polio 01 May 2013
- Foundation Initiative Uses Expanded View of Health: Including Its Social and Environmental Determinants 23 Apr 2013
- "Tackling The Cost Conundrum" Event May 07, 2013
- "The 'Triple Aim' Goes Global" Event April 11, 2013
- Tackling The Cost Conundrum May 07, 2013
- The 'Triple Aim' Goes Global April 11, 2013
- New Era Of Patient Engagement February 06, 2013
- Growth In US Health Spending 2011 January 07, 2013
- Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates
- How Health Systems Could Avert ‘Triple Fail’ Events That Are Harmful, Are Costly, And Result In Poor Patient Satisfaction
- Health Care Cost Containment Strategies Used In Four Other High-Income Countries Hold Lessons For The United States
- Inviting Consumers To Downsize Fast-Food Portions Significantly Reduces Calorie Consumption
- The ‘Triple Aim’ Goes Global, And Not A Minute Too Soon
- Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates
- Health Care Cost Containment Strategies Used In Four Other High-Income Countries Hold Lessons For The United States
- How Health Systems Could Avert ‘Triple Fail’ Events That Are Harmful, Are Costly, And Result In Poor Patient Satisfaction
- The ‘Triple Aim’ Goes Global, And Not A Minute Too Soon
- Immigration Reform: A Long Road To Citizenship And Insurance Coverage
- Wellness Incentives In The Workplace: Cost Savings Through Cost Shifting To Unhealthy Workers
- Redesigning Primary Care: A Strategic Vision To Improve Value By Organizing Around Patients’ Needs
- Even As Mortality Fell In Most US Counties, Female Mortality Nonetheless Rose In 42.8 Percent Of Counties From 1992 To 2006
- Cesarean Delivery Rates Vary Tenfold Among US Hospitals; Reducing Variation May Address Quality And Cost Issues
- A Hospital System’s Wellness Program Linked To Health Plan Enrollment Cut Hospitalizations But Not Overall Costs

