JUST RELEASED The September 2024 issue is now available! Read Editor in Chief Alan Weil's introduction to the new issue on Access To Care, Coverage & More. Explore the issue: https://bit.ly/3Xs9OGT
Health Affairs
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Since 1981, Health Affairs has been the leading journal of health policy thought and research.
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Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Published monthly by Project HOPE, the journal is available in print and online. Its mission is to serve as a high-level, nonpartisan forum to promote analysis and discussion on improving health and health care, and to address such issues as cost, quality, and access. The journal reaches a broad audience that includes: government and health industry leaders; health care advocates; scholars of health, health care and health policy; and others concerned with health and health care issues in the United States and worldwide. Health Affairs offers a variety of content, including: Health Affairs Journal Health Affairs Forefront (Formerly Health Affairs Blog) Health Policy Briefs Podcasts Events More information can be found here: https://www.healthaffairs.org/about
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Kathryn Phillips
Professor & Founder UCSF Center for Translational & Policy Research on Precision Medicine at UCSF; Editor-in-Chief Health Affairs Scholar
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Sue Ducat
Senior Communications Director at Health Affairs
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Julia Nalitz Vivalo
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Updates
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JUST RELEASED: A new Health Policy Brief on Direct Democracy And Population Health: Making Health Policy Through State Ballot Initiatives. Of the 534 state referenda and constitutional amendment ballot initiatives that passed between 2014 and 2023, the majority were health related. What are the potential opportunities and challenges for policy makers and advocates to use direct democracy to improve population health? This Brief breaks down the issues and the process. Read the new Brief by Paula M. Lantz and Emma Carter: https://bit.ly/47dEQ8U
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In their new Forefront article, Kevin Grumbach, Deborah J. Cohen, and Yalda Jabbarpour of the University of California, San Francisco, the Oregon Health & Science University, and the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care argue that much more assertive public policy is required to move the nation on a collective path to primary care for all. "Despite what might appear to be the unattractive business model of primary care, recent years have seen a slew of acquisitions of primary care practices by large, investor-owned corporations. Private equity, which once shunned primary care in preference for more lucrative specialty practices, is also now accelerating the purchase of primary care practices. What are we to make of this new-found enthusiasm among investors and large corporations for primary care? Are they enlightened saviors of primary care, appreciating the need to invest capital in primary care to achieve a high-value health system? Or are they mainly eyeing primary care as an opportunity for extractive financial gains? In this article, we discuss the rapid waxing and, of late, waning of corporate investment in primary care, arguing that recent events are quickly dispelling hopes of these interests rescuing primary care." Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4g3rwI6
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In their new Forefront article, Christopher F. Koller, Joseph R. Betancourt, and Mark E. Miller from the Milbank Memorial Fund, The Commonwealth Fund, and Arnold Ventures discuss how Medicare’s persistent underinvestment in primary care services has contributed to stresses in US health care, which underscores the important role Medicare can play in creating a better system. "As a physician, a longtime adviser to Congress on Medicare, and a former health insurance regulator, we recognize the imbalance at the heart of these signs of stress. The US health care system relies excessively on acute and specialty care and provides inadequate support for a strong primary care base. We study it, we see it, patients feel it." Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4e5qc6p
Out Of Balance: Fixing Our Health System’s Neglect Of Primary Care | Health Affairs Forefront
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Consumer Out-Of-Pocket Drug Prices Grew Faster Than Prices Faced By Insurers After Accounting For Rebates, 2007–20 By Justine Mallatt, Abe Dunn, and Lasanthi Fernando Read the new article from our September 2024 issue: https://bit.ly/4g9H6C9
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JUST RELEASED: The September 2024 issue of Health Affairs on Access To Care, Coverage & More is now available. Read the issue introduction from Editor in Chief, Alan Weil
NEW ISSUE: Access To Care, Coverage, And More
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In their new Forefront article, R. Christopher Sheldrick, Thomas I. Mackie, Karen Burns, Kelsee Fout, Uruj Kamal Haider, Elizabeth Maxwell Hovis, Diane M. Misch, Celeste St. John-Larkin, Sarah Wakefield, and Nancy Byatt from UMass Chan Medical School, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and The University of Texas Medical Branch argue that we need to move beyond simple models of how Perinatal Psychiatry Access Programs work and recognize the many factors that drive these programs’ effectiveness. "For example, practice-level technical assistance requires attention to the capacity of the local health care system. For practices to benefit, obstetric and mental health clinicians and staff must have the time and resources to engage with access programs and to deliver high-quality mental health care, which is particularly difficult in the context of excess clinical demands and high rates of burnout across primary care and obstetric providers. At the provider level, access programs offer services for each relevant workforce, helping clinicians to communicate more effectively when discussing screening and treatment options while offering hope and reassurance to patients who often feel isolated. At the patient level, programs hire resource-and-referral specialists who strive to help patients connect to community mental health resources that match with their insurance, thereby reducing wait times by addressing gaps in resources and referrals in many obstetric practices. Such services can be especially critical for patients who experience adverse social determinants of health that limit their access to care, but their effectiveness depends on the availability of appropriate resources in the community." Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/47cYulg
“A Hundred Small Steps”: Assessing The Effectiveness Of Perinatal Psychiatry Access Programs | Health Affairs Forefront
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In their new Forefront article, Inmaculada Hernandez, Olivier J. Wouters, Emma M. Cousin, Ayuri S. Kirihennedige, and Sean D. Sullivan of UC San Diego, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the University of Washington The CHOICE Institute argue that only rigorous analyses assessing the financial implications of several rounds of negotiation will be able to answer the question that reporters, policymakers, industry stakeholders, and health commentators are asking themselves—what are the savings associated with Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program? "In previous work, we leveraged a novel method developed by our research team to estimate net prices faced by payers – including Medicare Part D plans –after confidential rebates paid by manufacturers. This methodology overcomes important limitations of other data sources and allowed us to distinguish among four types of payments: rebates negotiated between manufacturers and payers; 340B discounts; Medicaid discounts; and Medicare coverage gap. In this article, we apply this same methodology to understand how Medicare’s 2023 spending on the selected drugs at the negotiated price levels—the MFPs—would have compared to actual Part D net spending on these drugs in 2023. This enables us to estimate the extent to which each of the drugs contributed to the $6B figure mentioned by CMS and provide context for how to interpret this estimate." Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3MrdrXr
Interpreting The First Round Of Maximum Fair Prices Negotiated By Medicare For Drugs | Health Affairs Forefront
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Waiting For On-Call Care The August 2024 Narrative Matters essay by Forrest Bohler Read the full article: https://bit.ly/3Z5hPD7
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Percentage Of Dentists And Dental Practices Affiliated With Private Equity Nearly Doubled, 2015–21 By Kamyar Nasseh, Anthony T. LoSasso, and Marko Vujicic Read the full article: https://bit.ly/3AWTWmW
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