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Through the Revolving Door, with a Few Stumbles - Health Care Corporate Executives and Consultants Continue to Become Leaders of Trump ' s Department of Health and Human Services
We continue to see a remarkable stream of people transiting therevolving door from high-level positions in health care corporations to high-level positions in health care policy or regulation for the Trump administration.  Lately, though, these transitions have not been without missteps. The most recent cases we have found, in the order of their public appearance, appear below.John Bardis, Who Went from MedAssets to Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Administration, Resigned Under FireWe first discussed the appointment of Mr Bardis in May, 2017,here.  We noted then that most recently Mr Bar...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 18, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: conflicts of interest CVS Donald Trump finance health care corruption Pfizer revolving doors Source Type: blogs

Helping Patients Make More Informed Postacute Care Choices
Conclusion Selecting the right postacute provider is a complex choice, frequently made under difficult circumstances, with meaningful consequences for the patient and the broader health care system. This complexity will likely increase for patients as reform efforts continue to push integration between acute and postacute providers, possibly creating financial incentives to influence patient choice in ways that may or may not be consistent with their preferences. If consumers are to play an active role in the evolving postacute care choice environment, it is essential that they be well-positioned to make good decisions. Un...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 29, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Brian E. McGarry and David Grabowski Tags: Featured Innovations in Care Delivery Medicare Quality consumer choices Nursing Home Compare post-acute care post-acute providers Source Type: blogs

Public Health Funding And OMB Director Mulvaney ’s “Taxpayer First” Test
The first formal budget of the Trump era—billed as a “Taxpayer First” budget—contains some very bad news when it comes to the health of the American public. It proposes dramatic cuts in federal investments that keep us healthy and protected from harm, including a $1.2 billion cut from the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is on top of the catastrophic cuts that will occur with the loss of the Prevention and Public Health Fund if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. It is the opposite of both what American taxpayers have asked for and what is owed to them. Office of Management and...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 8, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Edward L. Hunter Tags: Costs and Spending Featured GrantWatch Public Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chronic Care Consumers Effectiveness Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW vaccines Source Type: blogs

Why President Trump Should Use Foreign Aid For Health To Make America Great
The Trump administration recently proposed to make major cuts to US foreign assistance, including the $10.3 billion a year that the federal government spends to advance global health through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the United Nations. As practitioners with more than 60 years of combined experience, we believe that the Trump administration is making a terrible mistake. Investing in global health is essential to the safety, security, and future prosperity of the United States, in addition to being a highl...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Robert Hecht and Sten Vermund Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Global Health Policy Population Health Public Health epidemics foreign aid humanitarian aid infectious diseases PEPFAR US foreign assistance Source Type: blogs

Reaching Beyond Delivery System Walls To Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening
Conclusion Screening rates are a product of two factors: offer rates and uptake/completion rates. With our FIT campaign we have made strides in both areas. With tools built into our EHR, we can now identify and offer tests to nearly 100 percent of the eligible population, practically with the touch of a button. At the same time, patient uptake of testing has improved dramatically, despite the fact that FIT screening must be done every year, instead of the five- and ten-year intervals required for sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy, respectively. We believe the increased uptake is a testament to what happens when we “make the ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 24, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Theodore Levin, Joanne Schottinger and Murray Ross Tags: Featured Health Policy Lab Innovations in Care Delivery Organization and Delivery Population Health capitated payment model Colorectal Cancer Screening electronic health record fecal immunochemical test Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Source Type: blogs

Bringing on-demand rideshare to medical transport. Interview with Veyo ’ s CEO
  Uber and Lyft have transformed (and largely destroyed) the taxi industry. Now startup companies like Veyo are applying similar approaches to the medical transportation field. I interviewed Veyo’s CEO, Josh Komenda to get his take. 1.How is non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) defined? What’s included? How big is it? Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) is a transportation benefit for Medicaid or Medicare members who need to get to and from medical services, but have no means of transportation. NEMT provides eligible patients with trips that are non-emergency in nature, meaning there is no i...
Source: Health Business Blog - March 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Entrepreneurs Patients Podcast Technology medical transportation NEMT rideshare Source Type: blogs

ACA Repeal Would Mean Massive Cuts To Public Health, Leaving Cities And States At Risk
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed a little over six years ago, it brought with it the promise of health insurance for all Americans. It also sought to begin to shift the paradigm for health care in this country, emphasizing value over volume, and recognizing the importance of prevention coupled with appropriate access to care. By now, it is well known that repealing the ACA could leave nearly 20 million Americans uninsured and simultaneously result in millions of job losses across the country. An associated cost that has been less discussed, but no less relevant, is what repeal could mean for the nation’s alr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Chrissie Juliano Tags: Costs and Spending Following the ACA Public Health Big Cities Health Coalition Community Health Prevention and Public Health Fund. Source Type: blogs

What Three Decades Of Pandemic Threats Can Teach Us About The Future
Editor’s Note: This post reflects on a speech on pandemic preparedness Dr. Fauci gave on January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC, hosted by  The Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center, the Harvard Global Health Institute, and Health Affairs. One of the most important challenges facing the new Administration is preparedness for the pandemic outbreak of an infectious disease. Infectious diseases will continue to pose a significant threat to public health and the economies of countries worldwide. The U.S. government will need to continue its investment to combat these diseases whe...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Anthony S. Fauci Tags: Featured Global Health Policy Ebola HIV/AIDS NIH pandemic preparedness Zika Source Type: blogs

The Top 10 Health Affairs Articles Of 2016
Here they are! The 10 most-read Health Affairs articles of 2016. It’s no surprise that, like the journal, this list covers a lot of territory. Coming in at number one is a July 2016 article by Ashley C. Bradford and W. David Bradford examining the relationship between state medical marijuana laws and prescription drug use under Medicare Part D. Next up is Ge Bai and Gerard F. Anderson’s study identifying key characteristics of the most profitable hospitals in the United States. From there, the list ranges across topics as varied as childhood immunization, retail clinics, and physician quality reporting. And of course, ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured HATop10 Health Affairs journal Source Type: blogs

Trump Plan To Increase Health Savings Accounts Should Ensure That They Do Not Only Benefit The Wealthy And Healthy
One of the reforms proposed as part of the Trump health platform is to “allow individuals to use Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).” This increased emphasis on HSAs is a clarion call for more understanding about how to make HSAs work so that they are equitable, effective, and efficient. Although HSAs are conceptually appealing and can play an important role in health reforms, current evidence suggests that they primarily benefit the wealthy, the healthy, and the educated. Thus, new approaches will be needed if HSAs are to be used more widely and improve health outcomes for the broader population. Current Use of Health Sav...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Kathryn Phillips Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Quality health savings accounts high-deductible plans Source Type: blogs

Taking Stock Of Health Reform: Where We ’ve Been, Where We’re Going
Almost from the moment of its inauguration in 2009, the Obama administration has struggled, often against adamant resistance, to enact and implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The 2016 election has brought to power opponents of the ACA who will control the presidency, both houses of Congress, and many state houses and governorships. ACA repeal, or “repeal and replace,” seems to be a very real, indeed likely, possibility. It is important, therefore, to take a sober look at what the ACA has achieved in its nearly six years of existence, and what repeal, or repeal and replacement, might look like. This post will descr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 6, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Medicare ACA replacement Congress Obamacare Republicans Source Type: blogs

Health Affairs Issue: A Culture Of Health
The November issue of Health Affairs explores where action is most needed to successfully build a Culture of Health and identifies how we might start. This month’s DataGraphic provides a pictorial view of key facts about how population well-being affects life expectancy.   Population well-being measures help explain geographic variations in life expectancy Variation in life expectancy across counties in the United States is substantial and not fully explained by race and socioeconomic status. Anita Arora, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the Yale School of Medicine and coauthors used county-leve...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 9, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Tracy Gnadinger Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured culture of health Source Type: blogs

Congress Took 233 Days To Respond. Here ’ s How To Prepare For The Next Zika
Congress recently passed federal funding for the nation’s response to the Zika virus, and the manner in which they provided those funds exposed a serious flaw in the way our nation handles disease outbreaks. In the time between the White House’s initial request for funding in February and the passage of the bill in September, the outbreak escalated dramatically, nearly unchecked by federal lawmakers. The entire process took a grand total of 233 days, which is simply far too long. It did not need to be this way. Failure to Act Over the spring and summer, the Zika virus infected more than 3,300 Americans in the states an...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 27, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Barbara Ferrer Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Featured Organization and Delivery Public Health Congress executive branch public health emergency fund Zika Zika virus Source Type: blogs

The Cost Of US Adult Vaccine Avoidance: $8.95 Billion In 2015
This study, which was funded by Merck, will also appear in the November issue of Health Affairs.
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 12, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured vaccination vaccines Web First Source Type: blogs