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New York ' s 2015, 2016 and 2017 Obamacare Rate Increases
New York just announced the 2017 requested rate increases for individual health insurance. I thought the history of New York ' s increases was interesting. For 2015, the exchange health plans asked for an average increase of 12.5%. The New York Insurance Department approved an average 5.7% increase. Here are the requested and approved rate increases for 2016 (from Charles Gaba): Here are
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - May 17, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

‘Moderate’ Health Spending Growth Projections Exceed What We Can Afford
There are few surprises in the government’s recent 11-year projections of national health expenditures (NHE). The 5.8 percent average growth rate is the same as last year’s projection and the annual pattern is also largely the same. Over the 11-year period, gross domestic project (GDP) is projected to average 4.5 percent growth. Thus, the excess growth in NHE is projected at 1.3 percentage points or, more concisely, NHE growth is projected at GDP+1.3. This has been referred to as “moderate” growth. Compared to our long-run historical experience, it certainly is — since 1980, NHE growth has averaged 7.8 percen...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 10, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Charles Roehrig Tags: Costs and Spending Featured ACA national health expenditures Source Type: blogs

Aetna is the Latest Insurer to Drastically Scale Back ACA Exchange Participation
On Monday Aetna announced that it will significantly reduce the scope of its participation in the Affordable Care Act ’s health insurance exchanges, pulling out of 11 of its 15 states. The company will only continue offering exchange plans in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, and Virginia. In the relatedpress release, Aetna Chairman and CEO Mark T. Bertolini pointed to the sizable losses the company had incurred through its business on the exchanges: $200 million in pretax losses in the second quarter and $430 million total since January 2014. Aetna covered almost850,000 people through its exchange plans as of June 30th, and mos...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 16, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Health Wonk Review Archives: 2006-2015
August 18, 2016 - Jason Shafrin - Healthcare Economist July 21, 2016 - Steve Anderson - medicareresources.org blog June 16, 2016 - Christopher Fleming at Health Affairs Blog June 2, 2016 - David Harlow - HealthBlawg May 19, 2016 - Tinker Ready - Boston Health News May 5, 2016 - Brad Wright - Wright on Health April 21, 2016 - Peggy Salvatore - Health System Ed Blog April 7, 2016 - Jaan Sidorov - The Population Health Blog March 24, 2016 - Charles Gaba at ACASignups.net March 10, 2016 - David Williams - Health Business Blog February 25, 2016 - Louise Norris -Colorado Health Insurance Insider February 11, 2016 - S...
Source: Health Wonk Review - June 10, 2016 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs

When Exchanges Collapse, ObamaCare Penalizes You Even If Coverage Is Unaffordable
MIAMI, FL - NOVEMBER 02: Martha Lucia (L) sits with Rudy Figueroa, an insurance agent from Sunshine Life and Health Advisors, as she picks an insurance plan available in the third year of the Affordable Care Act at a store setup in the Mall of the Americas on November 2, 2015 in Miami, Florida. Open Enrollment began yesterday for people to sign up for a 2016 insurance plan through the Affordable Care Act. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)In opeds at  Time and National Review Online, I discuss how ObamaCare ’s health-insurance Exchange has collapsed in Pinal County, Arizona, throwing some 10,000 residents out of thei...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 1, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs

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 close look at how the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) has developed a scalable model that community health centers might use to address food insecurity (FI) in their communities. This model was designed with the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) process in mind, as it affords partnering health centers a clear way to address relevant health priorities within their communities—such as FI, food access, diet-related ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Vin Gupta, Tamara Baer, Allen Hamdan and Kathryn Brodowski Tags: Health Professionals Innovations in Care Delivery Organization and Delivery Population Health Public Health chronic conditions Community Health food insecurity Hunger Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs

Health Wonk Review Archives: 2006-2016
Sept 22, 2016 -Louise Norris - Colorado Health Insurance Insider September 8, 2016 - David Williams - Health Business Blog August 18, 2016 - Jason Shafrin - Healthcare Economist July 21, 2016 - Steve Anderson - medicareresources.org blog June 16, 2016 - Christopher Fleming at Health Affairs Blog June 2, 2016 - David Harlow - HealthBlawg May 19, 2016 - Tinker Ready - Boston Health News May 5, 2016 - Brad Wright - Wright on Health April 21, 2016 - Peggy Salvatore - Health System Ed Blog April 7, 2016 - Jaan Sidorov - The Population Health Blog March 24, 2016 - Charles Gaba at ACASignups.net March 10, 2016 - Davi...
Source: Health Wonk Review - June 10, 2016 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs

Surge in Emergency Department Use Persists in New Oregon Medicaid Study
One of the main arguments proponents of Medicaid expansion make, at least on the fiscal side, is that it would save money as people gaining Medicaid coverage would reduce their use of expensive visits to the Emergency Department (ED). Anearlier study from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment threw some cold water on that theory, as it found that getting Medicaid actually increased the number of ED visits by 40 percent. Some analysts postulated that this increase was only temporary because it was due to either pent-up demand for health care services, or because new enrollees did not have established relationships with doc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 21, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Insurer ’s Risk Corridor Payment Claims Dismissed; New ACA Reg From OSHA
While politicians, the media, and the public actively debate the future of the Affordable Care Act, litigation over the ACA and implementation of the law go on. On November 10, Judge Charles Lettow of the United States Court of Claims dismissed all claims brought by Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company in its lawsuit against the United States. This is the first decision on the merits in one of the nearly a dozen lawsuits brought by insurers claiming that the government violated its legal obligations when it failed to pay marketplace insurers the money they believe they are owed under the Affordable Care Act’s ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage retaliation risk corridor payments Source Type: blogs

Insurer ’s Risk Corridor Payment Claims Dismissed; New ACA Reg From OSHA (Updated)
October 17, 2016 Update: Marketplace Enrollment Snapshot Although the future of the Affordable Care Act is murky at this point, Americans need health care coverage and are signing up for it on the marketplaces. On November 16, 2016 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released their first biweekly enrollment snapshot, covering the 12 days from November 1 to 12, 2016. During that period over one million consumers selected plans, including about 250,000 new enrollees and 760,000 returning enrollees. The applications covered over two million individuals. About 4.5 million individuals visited Healthcare.gov and two m...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage retaliation risk corridor payments Source Type: blogs

Trumping En Masse Through the Revolving Door - the Trump Advisory and Transition Teams
We have frequently posted on therevolving door as a type of severe conflict of interest, if not corruption, affecting health care.  Our posts have covered various cases of people going from influential positions in or related to health care and some anti-health corporations, and government positions that make health care policy or regulate health care. Donald J Trump, the president elect, has pledged to " drain the swamp, " that is, to generally reduce crony capitalism, conflicts of interest, the revolving door, and government corruption (e.g., lookhere.)  However, it appears that his campaign advisory/ tran...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Altria Celgene Cerberus conflicts of interest Donald Trump Pfizer PhRMA Purdue Pharma revolving doors Source Type: blogs

Health Wonk Review Archives: 2006-2016
December 1, 2016 - Hank Stern at InsureBlog November 11, 2016 - Joe Paduda - Managed Care Matters Post-election special November 3, 2016 - Brad Wright at Wright on Health October 20, 2016 - Peggy Salvatore - Health System Ed Blog October 6, 2016 - Joe Paduda - Managed Care Matters Sept 22, 2016 -Louise Norris - Colorado Health Insurance Insider September 8, 2016 - David Williams - Health Business Blog August 18, 2016 - Jason Shafrin - Healthcare Economist July 21, 2016 - Steve Anderson - medicareresources.org blog June 16, 2016 - Christopher Fleming at Health Affairs Blog June 2, 2016 - David Harlow - Healt...
Source: Health Wonk Review - November 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs

The Top 15 Health Affairs Blog Posts of 2016
As 2016 winds down, we’ve compiled our most-read blog posts from the past year. For policy makers in health and health care as well as those who track and study their efforts, the last 12 months have been a whirlwind: premium increases, provider and insurer consolidation, final rules on MACRA, insurers leaving the marketplaces, co-ops going out of business, and most recently the stunning outcome of a national election that has the potential to dramatically change the trajectory of US health policy. 1. Day One And Beyond: What Trump’s Election Means For The ACA Timothy Jost Just hours after the 2016 presidential electi...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs HATop10 Most-Read Source Type: blogs

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law
is now available. Part I An Overview of the Legal Governance of HealthcareRelating Health Law to Health Policy: A Frictional Account - William M. Sage The Relationship between Bioethics and U.S. Health Law: Past, Present, and Future - I. Glenn Cohen What Health Reform Reveals about Health Law - Allison K. Hoffman A View from a Friend and Neighbor: A Canadian Perspective on U.S. Healthcare and the Affordable Care Act - Colleen Flood and Bryan Thomas Healthcare Federalism - Abigail R. Moncrieff and Joseph Lawless Part II Caring and Receiving Care A. Access to HealthcareAccessing Hospitals and Health Professionals - Eleanor ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 26, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

Health Wonk Review Archives: 2006-2016
February 9, 2017 - Steve Anderson - medicareresources.org January 26, 2017 - Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters January12, 2017 - Julie Ferguson - Workers Comp Insider December 1, 2016 - Hank Stern at InsureBlog November 11, 2016 - Joe Paduda - Managed Care Matters Post-election special November 3, 2016 - Brad Wright at Wright on Health October 20, 2016 - Peggy Salvatore - Health System Ed Blog October 6, 2016 - Joe Paduda - Managed Care Matters Sept 22, 2016 -Louise Norris - Colorado Health Insurance Insider September 8, 2016 - David Williams - Health Business Blog August 18, 2016 - Jason Shafrin - Health...
Source: Health Wonk Review - January 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs