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Current Issue March 2015
Variety Issue
SUPREME COURT
King v. Burwell: Unpacking the Oral Arguments
NARRATIVE MATTERS
Necessary Steps: How Health Care Fails Older Patients, And How It Can Be Done Better
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF
Right-to-Try Laws
Recent Issue February 2015
Biomedical Innovation
- March 11, 2014Web First
Solving The Sustainable Growth Rate Formula "Conundrum"
- In a new commentary, the authors recommend greater efforts to fix inaccurate valuations in the Medicare fee schedule, which "is vitally important to the SGR's fix's prospects for success."
- March 13, 2015Consumer Privacy
Unpacking A Privacy Proposal
- Nicolas Terry explains why health lawyers who ignored the Administration's 2012 consumer privacy framework should pay attention to its new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
- March 11, 2015Value
Focusing On High-Value Services
- Michael Chernew, J. Sanford Schwartz and Mark Fendrick say we should focus on identifying high-value services regardless of where they fit in the prevention spectrum.
- March 11, 2015Price Transparency
Removing The Blindfold
- Eric Barrette and David Newman of the Health Care Cost Institute discuss lessons learned from HCCI's development of guroo.com, a transparency website.
Right-to-Try Laws
- Some states have passed legislation intended to expand access to experimental treatments for patients with serious or life-threatening conditions.March 05, 2015
Risk Corridors (Updated)
- An amendment to the 2015 federal budget continuing appropriation raises a question: Will insurers receive their full 2014 risk corridor payments?February 19, 2015
Necessary Steps: How Health Care Fails Older Patients, And How It Can Be Done Better
A chance meeting between an octogenarian and a geriatrician shows how the US health system focuses on medical care at the expense of older adults' well-being.
Back From The Brink
- In a 2010 Narrative Matters essay, Ron Capps describes his odyssey with post-traumatic stress disorder while serving as an intelligence officer.
Current Issue
- From The Editor-In-Chief
- Entry Point: King v. Burwell
- Hospital Ratings Confusion
- Patient Activation Benefits
- Nonuse Of Diet Supplement Disclaimers
- NHS Reduces Low Value Procedures
- Cancer Care Value In US vs. W. Europe
- DataWatch: Value Of Union Health Plans
- Drug Monitoring Program Use Surveyed
- Taiwan Health System Turns 20
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- New Narrative Matters: How Health Care Fails Older Patients, And How It Can Be Done Better 13 Mar 2015
- Should Health Lawyers Pay Attention To The Administration’s Privacy Bill? 13 Mar 2015
- Physician Aid In Dying: Whither Legalization After Brittany Maynard? 12 Mar 2015
- Implementing Health Reform: March Enrollment Report Provides Income Data (Updated) 11 Mar 2015
- Reconciling Prevention And Value In The Health Care System 11 Mar 2015
- View from California: Why Foundations Should Fund Health Policy Work 12 Mar 2015
- Care Team Redesign: Transforming Medical Assistant Roles in Primary Care 12 Mar 2015
- King v. Burwell: Foundations Fund Analyses and Publish Viewpoints 03 Mar 2015
- The Gates Foundation Makes a “Big Bet for the Future” of Health and Development in Low-Income Countries 02 Mar 2015
- Supporting Efforts to Advance Adult Dental Coverage and Access in Medicaid 26 Feb 2015
- Biomedical Innovation February 05, 2015
- National Health Spending In 2013 December 03, 2014
- Collaborating For Community Health November 05, 2014
- Biomedical Innovation February 05, 2015
- Children's Health December 08, 2014
- National Health Spending In 2013 December 03, 2014
- Collaborating For Community Health November 05, 2014
- Necessary Steps: How Health Care Fails Older Patients, And How It Can Be Done Better
- National Hospital Ratings Systems Share Few Common Scores And May Generate Confusion Instead Of Clarity
- When Patient Activation Levels Change, Health Outcomes And Costs Change, Too
- Solving The Sustainable Growth Rate Formula Conundrum Continues Steps Toward Cost Savings And Care Improvements
- Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates
- National Hospital Ratings Systems Share Few Common Scores And May Generate Confusion Instead Of Clarity
- When Patient Activation Levels Change, Health Outcomes And Costs Change, Too
- Necessary Steps: How Health Care Fails Older Patients, And How It Can Be Done Better
- Medicare's Bundled Payment Initiative: Most Hospitals Are Focused On A Few High-Volume Conditions
- The Affordable Care Act Returns To The US Supreme Court
- Creating Value In Health By Understanding And Overcoming Resistance To De-Innovation
- Decline In Economic Returns From New Drugs Raises Questions About Sustaining Innovations
- Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates
- The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost
- Medicare Is Scrutinizing Evidence More Tightly For National Coverage Determinations