Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil recently surprised readers with his comments on “Why I Oppose Payment Reform.” Those of us who fell for that bit of click bait discovered that, of course, he does not oppose reform. Rather, he wanted…
With the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval of Harvoni, the successor to Gilead Science’s Sovaldi, the alarm bells have officially rung on breakthrough hepatitis C treatments. One can’t open a newspaper or scan a Twitter feed without stumbling on at…
Conference season is upon us, and this year we welcomed a new kid on the block: the “National Forum on Hospitals, Health Systems and Population Health: Partnerships to Build a Culture of Health,” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation…
If you ask healthcare leaders what they think about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), you won’t be short on answers. From high hopes to cautious optimism to worry and skepticism, the full gamut of feelings is there. The amount of buzz…
Accountable Care Organizations hold great promise in improving quality and reducing costs of health care. But little is known about the organizational structure of current ACOs, and what factors will lead to their success. In this interview, Elliott Fisher of…
In the national battle against obesity, community-clinic integration is an emerging and promising strategy to promote healthy lifestyle change. Brian Raymond, MPH tells the story: Community-clinic integration describes partnerships between health care delivery systems and community organizations and services to…
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) held its 24th Annual State Health Policy Conference this past Fall, in Kansas City, Missouri. The three-day conference convened more than 600 state leaders from across the country to discuss health policy…
The health benefit exchanges outlined in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) are a necessary foundation for market-based reform of the health care financing and delivery system. At least in theory, exchanges embody the type of market structure…
The following article first appeared in, and is excerpted with permission from, Accountable Care News, Volume 1, Number 1, Sample Issue, 2010, pgs. 1-2, Health Policy Publishing, LLC. In March, 2010, the American health care system took the first step…
