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Articles 31 - 60 of 61
Full-Text Articles in Health Policy
A New State Plan Option To Integrate Care And Financing For Persons Dually Eligible For Medicare And Medicaid, Jane H. Thorpe, Katherine J. Hayes
A New State Plan Option To Integrate Care And Financing For Persons Dually Eligible For Medicare And Medicaid, Jane H. Thorpe, Katherine J. Hayes
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
As health care costs continue to escalate, Congress, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), state Medicaid agencies, researchers, and policymakers are focusing on identifying new approaches to care delivery and reimbursement for individuals who are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Although relatively few in number (9 million), dual eligible beneficiaries are more likely than others to experience poor health, including multiple chronic conditions, functional and cognitive impairments, and a need for continuous care. Sixty-six percent of dual eligibles have three or more chronic conditions; sixty-one percent are …
Postmortems On The Affordable Care Act (Book Review), Rick Mayes
Postmortems On The Affordable Care Act (Book Review), Rick Mayes
Political Science Faculty Publications
Nearly two years after the Affordable Care Act became law, books are appearing by Washington insiders who detail how the legislation came about. The two reviewed here discuss and dissect topics related to the health reform law from decidedly different points of view.
Pay-For-Performance Reimbursement In Health Care: Chasing Cost Control And Increased Quality Through "New And Improved" Payment Incentives, Rick Mayes, Jessica Walradt
Pay-For-Performance Reimbursement In Health Care: Chasing Cost Control And Increased Quality Through "New And Improved" Payment Incentives, Rick Mayes, Jessica Walradt
Political Science Faculty Publications
Pay-for-performance (P4P) reimbursement has become a popular and growing form of health care payment built on the belief that payment incentives strongly affect medical providers' behavior. By paying more to those providers who are deemed to deliver better care, the goal is to increase quality and, hopefully restrain cost growth. This article provides a brief explanation of: (1) how previous P4P plans in the U.S. have fared, along with their special relationship to primary care, and (2) how England's experience with P4P and newer versions of these kinds of plans being pursued in places such as Massachusetts might provide valuable …
The Way It Was In Health Policy, And Probably Will Be: Learning Lessons By Rashi Fein (Book Review), Rick Mayes
The Way It Was In Health Policy, And Probably Will Be: Learning Lessons By Rashi Fein (Book Review), Rick Mayes
Political Science Faculty Publications
Learning Lessons by Rashi Fein is an enjoyable memoir from a scholar and policy adviser unlike any other. Fein’s influential involvement in health care policy dates back to John F. Kennedy’s administration, and his career as a leading health economist paralleled the significant growth in the political influence of health economists following the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Now an emeritus professor of the economics of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Fein writes here about the lessons he learned in medicine, economics, and public policy. His view of the policy process, as a way of coming to …
Accountable Care Organizations: Implications For Antitrust Policy, Taylor Burke, Sara J. Rosenbaum
Accountable Care Organizations: Implications For Antitrust Policy, Taylor Burke, Sara J. Rosenbaum
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
This analysis examines accountable care organizations (ACOs) and assesses their implications for antitrust policy. Consideration of the antitrust implications of ACOs is timely. Both the House and Senate health reform measures contemplate the creation of ACOs as a new class of Medicare provider while providing parallel legal authority under Medicaid.
Medicare Advantage Payment Provisions: Health Care And Education Affordability Reconciliation Act Of 2010 H.R. 4872, Brian Biles, Grace Arnold
Medicare Advantage Payment Provisions: Health Care And Education Affordability Reconciliation Act Of 2010 H.R. 4872, Brian Biles, Grace Arnold
Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs
The Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 would make major changes to Medicare Advantage (MA) payment policies. Overall, payments to MA plans would be reduced from the current national average of 113 percent of local fee-for-service (FFS) costs to a new average of 101 percent of FFS costs. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that the new polices would reduce Medicare spending by $132 billion over 10 years. The new policies would set county payment benchmarks for MA plans at 115 percent, 107.5 percent, 100 percent, and 95 percent of local FFS costs depending of the …
Paying Medicare Advantage Plans By A Blend-Based System: Where Are The Gains And Losses?, Brian Biles, Jonah Pozen, Grace Arnold
Paying Medicare Advantage Plans By A Blend-Based System: Where Are The Gains And Losses?, Brian Biles, Jonah Pozen, Grace Arnold
Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are now paid $11 billion a year and $150 billion over 10 years more than costs in fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare. In the past two years there have been discussions about reducing MA payments to the level of FFS costs and using the savings to offset the costs of new Federal initiatives such as health care reform. These discussions have included a number of options on the specific new approach to pay plans including: average FFS costs in each county; a blend of local county FFS costs and national FFS average costs; and a regional system based …
Paying Medicare Private Plans By Competitive Bidding: Not The Same As Costs In Regular Medicare, Brian Biles, Jonah Pozen
Paying Medicare Private Plans By Competitive Bidding: Not The Same As Costs In Regular Medicare, Brian Biles, Jonah Pozen
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
Medicare Advantage plans are now paid $11 billion a year, and $150 billion over 10 years, more than costs in regular fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare. In the past two years there have been discussions about reducing MA payments to the level of 100 percent of average costs in FFS and using the savings to offset the costs of new Federal health initiatives such as health care reform. Earlier this year, OMB proposed "reducing Medicare overpayments to private insurers through competitive payments." Under this proposal, MA plan "payments would be based on an average of plans' bids submitted to Medicare." This issue …
The Application Of The Emergency Medical Treatment And Labor Act (Emtala) To Hospital Inpatients, Lara Cartwright-Smith, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Karen Belli, Elaine Purcell, Tasmeen S. Weik
The Application Of The Emergency Medical Treatment And Labor Act (Emtala) To Hospital Inpatients, Lara Cartwright-Smith, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Karen Belli, Elaine Purcell, Tasmeen S. Weik
Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs
This issue brief provides a brief overview of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and focuses on its application to hospital inpatients. EMTALA applies differently to patients than non-patients, and also applies differently to patients admitted through the emergency department than patients admitted as regular inpatients. In addition, courts and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have differed in their interpretation of the statute. Depending on the specific facts of any particular case, EMTALA may or may not have implications for specialty-related transfers and discharges.
Policy Issues Affecting Maine’S Hospitals, John A. Gale Ms, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs
Policy Issues Affecting Maine’S Hospitals, John A. Gale Ms, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs
Rural Hospitals (Flex Program)
Legislators and other policymakers will be continually challenged to balance the needs of hospitals for appropriate reimbursement and oversight with supporting their provision of important services to local communities.
The Continuing Cost Of Privatization: Extra Payments To Medicare Advantage Plans In 2008, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion, Stuart Guterman
The Continuing Cost Of Privatization: Extra Payments To Medicare Advantage Plans In 2008, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion, Stuart Guterman
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 explicitly increased Medicare payments to private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. As a result, every MA plan in the nation is paid more for its enrollees than they would have been expected to cost in traditional fee-for-service Medicare. The authors calculate that payments to MA plans in 2008 will be 12.4 percent greater than the corresponding costs in traditional Medicare—an average increase of $986 per MA plan enrollee, for a total of more than $8.5 billion. Over the five-year period 2004–2008, extra payments to MA plans are estimated to have totaled nearly $33 billion. Although …
Primer On Medicare Advantage Payments In 2008, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion
Primer On Medicare Advantage Payments In 2008, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) included provision intended to increase the role of private health plans in Medicare. These provisions, building on policies adopted earlier in 1997 and 2000, set Medicare Advantage (MA) plan benchmark rates at levels higher than average costs in tradition free-for-service Medicare in every county in the nation. The total amount of extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans resulting from these policies total over $8.5 billion in 2008 and over $82 billion over the five year period between 2009 and 2013.
This briefing paper outlines the three major Medicare policies that generate these extra …
Political Economy, Moral Economy And The Medicare Modernization Act Of 2003, Judie Svihula
Political Economy, Moral Economy And The Medicare Modernization Act Of 2003, Judie Svihula
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Through the lens of political and moral economy, I examined the dominant values and actors in the legislative process of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. In my content analysis of federal hearings, I found that witnesses from government agencies, Congress and think tanks had almost equal presence at the hearings. Witnesses who were invited by Congress to testify at the hearings expressed twice as much support for private interests than for the general Medicare population or low-income beneficiaries. Few expressed concern for the uninsured population. Witnesses offered almost four times as many expressions of support for market rationalism than …
Tracing The History Of Medicare Home Health Care: The Impact Of Policy On Benefit Use, Joan K. Davitt, Sunha Choi
Tracing The History Of Medicare Home Health Care: The Impact Of Policy On Benefit Use, Joan K. Davitt, Sunha Choi
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
We trace key policy changes that affected use of the Medicare home health benefit from the 1980s through the prospective payment system implemented in 2000, analyzing the impact on three measures of home care use: expenditures, users and visits. We demonstrate the impact of policies generated in the legislative, the judicial, and the executive branches of government and the gaming behavior of home health agencies in response to policy changes. Our analysis suggests that the policy itself and the implementation process are critical to understanding benefit use. The incentives in the policies and agency reactions had the potential to generate …
Payments To Medicare Advantage Plans Exceed Fee-For-Service Costs: Options For Medicare Savings From 2008 Through 2012, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion
Payments To Medicare Advantage Plans Exceed Fee-For-Service Costs: Options For Medicare Savings From 2008 Through 2012, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) and the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 include provision intended to increase the role of private health plans in Medicare. These provisions set Medicare Advantage plan payment rates at levels higher than average costs would be in tradition free-for-service Medicare in every county in the nation. The total amount of extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans resulting from these provisions is projected to total over $8 billion in 2008 and $70 billion over the five year period, 2008 to 2012.
This briefing paper outlines the specific MMA and DRA provisions that generate …
The Continuing Cost Of Privatization: Extra Payments To Medicare Advantage Plans: Updated Tables For 2007: February 2007 Ma Plan Enrollment, 2007 Ma And Ffs Payment Rates, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion
The Continuing Cost Of Privatization: Extra Payments To Medicare Advantage Plans: Updated Tables For 2007: February 2007 Ma Plan Enrollment, 2007 Ma And Ffs Payment Rates, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
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What Is Fair? Choice, Fairness And Transparency In Access To Prescription Medicines In The United States And Australia, Ruth Lopert, Sara J. Rosenbaum
What Is Fair? Choice, Fairness And Transparency In Access To Prescription Medicines In The United States And Australia, Ruth Lopert, Sara J. Rosenbaum
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The importance of prescription drugs to modern medical practice, coupled with their increasing costs, has strengthened imperatives for national health policies that ensure safety and quality, facilitate affordable access, and promote rational use. Australia has made universal and affordable prescription drug coverage a priority for decades, within a policy framework that emphasizes equity and increasing transparency in coverage design and payment decisions. By contrast, the U.S. lacks such a national policy. Furthermore, federal Medicare reforms aimed at making appropriate drug coverage affordable and accessible employs two icons of the U.S. perception of fairness--the right to choose and the right to …
Payments To Medicare Advantage Plans Exceed Fee-For-Service Costs: Options For Medicare Savings From 2007 Through 2011, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion
Payments To Medicare Advantage Plans Exceed Fee-For-Service Costs: Options For Medicare Savings From 2007 Through 2011, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) and the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 include provision intended to increase the role of private health plans in Medicare. These provisions set Medicare Advantage plan payment rates at levels higher than average costs would be in tradition free-for-service Medicare in every county in the nation. The total amount of extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans resulting from these provisions is projected at $5.7 billion in 2007 and nearly $30 billion over the five year period, 2007 to 2011.
This briefing paper outlines the specific MMA and DRA provisions that generate these …
Pursuing Cost Containment In A Pluralistic Payer Environment: From The Aftermath Of Clinton’S Failure At Health Care Reform To The Balanced Budget Act Of 1997, Rick Mayes, Robert E. Hurley
Pursuing Cost Containment In A Pluralistic Payer Environment: From The Aftermath Of Clinton’S Failure At Health Care Reform To The Balanced Budget Act Of 1997, Rick Mayes, Robert E. Hurley
Political Science Faculty Publications
Following a decade in which Medicare operated as the leading ‘change agent’ within the US health care system, the private sector rose to the fore in the mid 1990s. The failure of President Clinton’s attempt at comprehensive, public sector-led reform left managed care as the solution for cost control. And for a period it worked, largely because managed care organizations were able to both squeeze payments to selective networks of medical providers and significantly reduce inpatient hospital stays. There was a lot of ‘fat’ in the nation’s convoluted health care system that could be (and was) eliminated through competitive negotiations …
The Origins Of And Economic Momentum Behind "Pay For Performance" Reimbursement, Rick Mayes
The Origins Of And Economic Momentum Behind "Pay For Performance" Reimbursement, Rick Mayes
Political Science Faculty Publications
"Pay for performance," a reimbursement method under which some physicians and hospitals are paid more than others for the same services because they have been deemed to deliver better quality care and their patients appear to have better outcomes, is enormously controversial. Disputes invariably arise over how "quality" should (or even can) be measured. Nevertheless, differentiating between medical providers, financially, lies at the heart of this new reimbursement innovation developed by insurance companies and employers. Its two main objectives are: (1) to increase the overall quality of health care that patients receive, and (2) to encourage behavioral change on the …
Changing Economic Incentives In Long-Term Care, R. Tamara Konetzka
Changing Economic Incentives In Long-Term Care, R. Tamara Konetzka
Center for Policy Research
Just as managed care has changed utilization and incentives in other parts of health care, there is a whole set of incentives built around long-term care that really matter. For example, if nursing homes have a financial incentive to hospitalize people with certain health conditions, then in the long run they are not going to develop the programs and invest in the resources to treat those people in the facility. Instead they're going to use those resources to stay in business or to provide other types of care. And while we can assume that policymakers do not create regulations that …
Variations Among Regions And Hospitals In Managing Chronic Illness: How Much Care Is Enough?, John E. Wennberg
Variations Among Regions And Hospitals In Managing Chronic Illness: How Much Care Is Enough?, John E. Wennberg
Center for Policy Research
Classic epidemiology looks at what happens to people who live in a defined region over time. For example, birth rate, the number of births that occur among populations over a year, is a common statistics that we're all familiar with. Since the early 1990s we have conducted research at Dartmouth Medical School to convert that classic epidemiologic perspective into looking at what is happening in terms of the health care system itself. We ask how much care people are getting in different regions of the country. We want to know the patterns of that care. And we want to get …
Medicare And America's Healthcare System In Transition: From The Death Of Managed Care To The Medicare Modernization Act Of 2003 And Beyond, Rick Mayes
Political Science Faculty Publications
This article traces the transition-in Medicare, specifically, and in the American healthcare system, generally-from the aftermath of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. During this time, restrictive managed care died under an onslaught of resurgent cost pressures, legislative and legal attacks, and a vehement physician and consumer backlash. The subsequent reversion to more generous (and more expensive) health plans coincided with a recession in 2001 to trigger a return to rapidly escalating healthcare spending and yet another in the Nation's series of healthcare crises. Current trends suggest that future policymakers …
Universal Coverage And The American Health Care System Crisis (Again), Rick Mayes
Universal Coverage And The American Health Care System Crisis (Again), Rick Mayes
Political Science Faculty Publications
Ten years after President Clinton’s ambitious attempt at comprehensive health care reform died, several old and new issues with the health care system have emerged. First, the number of uninsured Americans rose to 43.6 million in 2002—and the numbers have since increased. Also, the costs for those who do not have insurance are rapidly increasing. In addition health care related problems are one of the leading causes of personal bankruptcy in the United States. Finally, the government’s two primary health insurance programs—Medicare and Medicaid—are experiencing considerable financial strain. Dr. Mayes examines these problems in depth before and revisits President Clinton’s …
Medicare Advantage: Déjà Vu All Over Again?, Brian Biles, Geraldine Dallek, Lauren Hersch Nicholas
Medicare Advantage: Déjà Vu All Over Again?, Brian Biles, Geraldine Dallek, Lauren Hersch Nicholas
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 expands the role of private health plans in Medicare through prescription drug plans and a revised Medicare+Choice (M+C), renamed Medicare Advantage, program. This paper discusses the factors responsible for the failure of M+C to develop as intended in 1997 and analyzes the challenges for MMA implementation in light of these factors. They include making a complex program understandable to beneficiaries; addressing plans? efforts to avoid enrolling high-cost beneficiaries; ensuring stability of benefits, providers, and plans; dealing with beneficiaries enrolled in unsuitable plans; providing equity of health benefits throughout the …
How Care Is Managed: A Descriptive Study Of Current And Future Trends In Care And Cost Management Practices Under Private Sector Employee Benefit Plans, Phyllis Borzi, Marsha Regenstein, Lee Repasch, Soeurette Cyprien, Sara J. Rosenbaum
How Care Is Managed: A Descriptive Study Of Current And Future Trends In Care And Cost Management Practices Under Private Sector Employee Benefit Plans, Phyllis Borzi, Marsha Regenstein, Lee Repasch, Soeurette Cyprien, Sara J. Rosenbaum
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
In the fall of 2001, the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) asked the Center for Health Services Research and Policy in the School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University Medical Center, to undertake a descriptive study of the current and future trends in cost and care management techniques used in the employment-based health insurance marketplace. The purpose of this study was to identify and report on (1) the cost and care management techniques currently in use in the private sector by health plans …
Medicare, Managed Care, And Behavioral Health Care, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Barbara Markham Smith
Medicare, Managed Care, And Behavioral Health Care, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Barbara Markham Smith
Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs
This issue brief examines Medicare and managed care for Medicare beneficiaries with behavioral health needs. Although only a relatively small proportion of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in managed care arrangements at the present time, proposals to expand the use of Medicare managed care can be expected to receive a good deal of attention in the coming years as part of a larger debate over Medicare's long term future. Thus, this issue brief examines the Medicare+Choice (M+C) program from the perspective of Medicare beneficiaries with mental illness and addiction disorders.
Patients As Consumers: Making The Health Care System Our Own., David J. Lansky
Patients As Consumers: Making The Health Care System Our Own., David J. Lansky
Center for Policy Research
I ask you to think about our health care system. Think beyond the issues that are in front of us today: the anxiety we have about managed care, obtaining our own health care and paying for it, the survival of Medicare, and the unpredictable impact of government regulations. Think about our *health*, what we want from our health care system, what we're spending all this money for, and what we care about for ourselves and for our families. The challenge we face in the next five, ten, or fifteen years is to place the American health care system under the …
New Conundrums: Public Policy And The Emerging Health Care Marketplace, James R. Tallon
New Conundrums: Public Policy And The Emerging Health Care Marketplace, James R. Tallon
Center for Policy Research
There is a fundamentally new dynamic in American health care, one that has yet to be fully experienced but that threatens to leave a large portion of the American population without access to the quality health care they have received in the past. While the federal government has not completely abandoned the goal of assuring universal health care, a goal that dates back to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s and even earlier, the mechanisms to pursue that goal have changed. The implicit contract between government and health care providers--mostly doctors and not-for-profit hospitals--under which subsidized care …
Flyer: “Safeguarding And Strengthening Medicare And Medicaid.” President Bill Clinton. Clinton/Gore. August 21, 1996., Clinton/Gore '96 Primary Committee, Inc.
Flyer: “Safeguarding And Strengthening Medicare And Medicaid.” President Bill Clinton. Clinton/Gore. August 21, 1996., Clinton/Gore '96 Primary Committee, Inc.
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
A Flyer promising that Clinton will maintain and extend Medicare and Medicaid support.