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What Kind Of Advance Care Planning Should CMS Pay For?
Currently, Medicare does not offer a paid benefit for advance care planning (ACP). As a result, health care providers who want to assist Medicare enrollees with ACP do so voluntarily and neither they,...
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Mortality Versus Survival In International Comparisons Of Cancer Care
In a recent paper, Soneji and Yang revisit a topic we first explored in the April 2012 issue of Health Affairs — namely, whether the U.S. gets value for its cancer care. We found that life expectancy...
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Cancer is the second leading cause of death among US adults, and cancer care now costs in excess of $125 billion each year in the United States alone. Cancer has also become the second leading cause of...
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Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is now set to expire after September 2015. A new study, being released by Health Affairs as a Web First, and also appearing in its April...
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The Time Is Now To Fix Medicare ACOs
This past January 20th, the Department of Health And Human Services established national Medicare pay-for-value goals. By 2016, the Department intends to tie 30 percent of Medicare payments, and by...
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Growth And Dispersion Of Accountable Care Organizations In 2015
In January, an additional 89 provider organizations joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) as accountable care organizations (ACOs). While this year’s new entrants are a smaller cohort than...
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Closing The Rural Health Connectivity Gap: How Broadband Funding Can Better...
Broadband access is not usually highlighted in policy prescriptions for improving outcomes and lowering costs of health care. But it is a prerequisite for a range of technologies that can provide more...
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Health Affairs Event Reminder: The Cost And Quality Of Cancer Care
Cancer is the second leading cause of death among US adults, and cancer care now costs in excess of $125 billion each year in the United States alone. Cancer has also become the second leading cause of...
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What Can Patients Do In The Face Of Physician Conflict Of Interest?
Trust has always been essential to medical care. Of what use are the best communication skills, physician empathy, or clinical knowledge if patients don’t trust the advice and information that their...
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The Complex Effects Of The FDA’s Proposal To Regulate Laboratory-Developed Tests
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference brought together...
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