HEALTHCARE SYSTEM REFORM
Academic Articles & Reports Round Up: June 2015
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor and Anne Marie Helm June 30, 2015
It’s officially summer! Exams are over|Moms, Dads, and Grads have celebrated their big days|and the Supreme Court is issuing opinions! After you have read King v. Burwell, take a look at what June had to offer in the realm of healthcare price and competition. The Variety Issue of Health Affairs is a great place to catch up on your summer reading. For a brief overview of what’s in the issue related to markets and prices, check out Alan Weil’s introduction Markets, Prices and Incentives. Be sure to check out Eric …
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May Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor June 2, 2015
Greetings! For the academics among us, its time to wrap up your end of the year grading and see what you’ve been missing in the literature this month. Two themes came out of the literature in May. First, (no surprise to anyone) the American public continues to be frustrated with the lack of transparency and rationality in healthcare prices, but there are some signs of hope. Second, policymakers and academics have proposed numerous payment reforms, which despite their varying degrees of success, only get at a fraction of the problem. …
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April Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor May 1, 2015
While April brought us little in the way of showers, it did offer a nice range of articles and reports that focus on competition in health care markets and payment reform initiatives, including accountable care organizations (ACOs). This issue of the Roundup will tackle payment reform initiatives first, then move on to competition, and wrap up with a handful of articles examining state initiatives and opportunities. Payment Reform Initiatives The April academic literature examined the ability of payment reform initiatives, including payment for performance, reference pricing, and provider risk sharing …
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February Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor March 2, 2015
In February, we saw assessments of health policy ideas from the level of national health reform right down to very specific cost saving initiatives. This issue of the Roundup will start with the broad and theoretical and move toward the specific. Big picture health reform In Managed Competition in Health Insurance, Stanford economists Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin examine the potential for regulated markets to outperform single payer public insurance. Specifically, they examined the use of managed competition in Medicare as a means of demonstrating how adverse selection and market …
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January Articles & Reports Round Up
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor February 1, 2015
As the holidays faded, January rang in 2015 with a return to concern about health care costs and the role of the market in health care. A number of reports came out this month on national costs. First and foremost, Health Affairs published National Health Spending in 2013: Growth Slows, Remains in Step with the Overall Economy in its January, 2015 issue. This annual report highlights national spending from the most recent data from CMS Office of the Actuary. In 2013, the U.S. spent $2.9 trillion on health care, about …
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September Articles and Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor October 1, 2014
With the end of summer and school in full swing, September brought us a wide range of interesting articles and reports. This month, the Roundup will highlight seven articles and one report on a range of topics, but there were many to choose from, so check out The Source –Perspectives-Articles and Reports to see what else we picked up! Narrow Networks Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight posted an NBER Working Paper, Controlling Health Care Costs Through Limited Network Insurance Plans: Evidence from Massachusetts State Employees, which examines the growing trend …
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Articles & Reports Roundup August 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor September 1, 2014
As a lifetime student turned professor, the end of August always makes my heart beat a little quicker as school returns to session. So if you are also looking for a few things to get your brain moving again after the lazy days of summer, check out these articles! First and foremost, Stephanie Alessi, UC Hastings alum and current fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, published Making the Competition for Healthcare Dollars a Fair Fight: The Role of Antitrust Law in Improving Efficiency in the U.S. Healthcare Marketin …
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Academic Articles and Reports Roundup July 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor August 5, 2014
July was a slower month in terms of volume of reports and articles being published, but nonetheless, some very important pieces came out. So check them out! Shaudi Bazzaz and Suzanne Delbanco for Catalyst for Payment Reform issued their latest report – State Policies on Provider Market Power. Members of the Source team contributed research and legal analysis to the development of this report. The report provides information on state legislation, regulation and other efforts to promote competition in healthcare for all fifty states. The report also provides information on …
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Academic Articles and Reports Roundup: June 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor June 30, 2014
Articles and Reports Round Up: June 2014 Greetings! In this installment of the Articles and Reports Round Up are the Source’s pick reads from the academic literature and policy reports from June 2014. Academic Articles Health Affairs’ June issue, titled The Economics of Health Care: Costs, Savings, and Value (be still our hearts), had two lead articles on healthcare consolidation and costs (Ginsburg and Pawlson, and Sage) followed by two commentaries. All four are well worth reading. Paul Ginsburg and Gregory Pawlson’s article, Seeking Lower Prices Where Providers Are Consolidated: An …
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Recent Trends in Legislation and Regulation
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 6, 2014
As the “laboratories of democracy,” the states play a major role in creating new laws and shaping public policy on important issues, including those related to healthcare costs and competition. Our Legislation/Regulation page provides various ways to research and track recent happenings in the legislative and regulatory arena. Our state-by-state map displays new regulatory and legislative developments, and these developments can be further explored by viewing the documents below the map, which are organized by topic, including by specific type of statute. Also, The Source Blog will take you through …
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