Bending the Curve: Reining in Health Care Costs

Latest Edition of Health Affairs Presents Analysis, Recommendations for Making Health Care Sustainable
On the heels of Congress returning to Washington after a bruising August of tough town hall meetings and reports of a growing federal deficit, Health Affairs has sponsored a briefing and dedicated its September-October edition to bending the cost curve of health care. Papers in this issue explore what’s driving rapidly increasing costs of health care and look to identify solutions that work. The special issue was released today at a Health Affairs-hosted briefing that included presentations from more than a dozen health care policy experts.

Highlighted in the special issue were 10 papers supported by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) programs and grantees. The RWJF-funded papers include:

• Increased Spending On Health Care: Long-Term Implications For The Nation
  Michael E. Chernew, Richard A. Hirth, and David M. Cutler
• Is Health Spending Excessive? If So, What Can We Do About It?
  Henry J. Aaron and Paul B. Ginsburg
• Health Care Cost Growth Among The Privately Insured
  M. Kate Bundorf, Anne Royalty, and Laurence C. Baker
• American Medical Home Runs
  Arnold Milstein and Elizabeth Gilbertson
• Would Having More Primary Care Doctors Cut Health Spending Growth?
  Michael E. Chernew, Lindsay Sabik, Amitabh Chandra, and Joseph P. Newhouse
• Medicare Governance And Provider Payment Policy
  Hoangmai H. Pham, Paul B. Ginsburg, and James M. Verdier
• From Volume To Value: Better Ways To Pay For Health Care
  Harold D. Miller
• Improving Safety And Eliminating Redundant Tests: Cutting Costs In U.S. Hospitals
  Ashish K. Jha, David C. Chan, Abigail B. Ridgway, Calvin Franz, and David W. Bates
• Making The ‘Pay’ Matter In Pay-For-Performance: Implications For Payment Strategies
  Rachel M. Werner and R. Adams Dudley
• Health Risk Appraisals: How Much Do They Influence Employees’ Health Behavior?
  Haiden A. Huskamp and Meredith B. Rosenthal

Michael Chernew, Health Affairs author and speaker at today’s event, contributed to the RWJF Health Reform blog.

• Read the blog entry.
• Read the latest Health Affairs brief on the role of government in health care.

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