Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy. 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..
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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Health system leaders need a set of criteria they can use to ensure the platforms they adopt align with their efforts to provide culturally competent care and advance health equity ..read more
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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States, with their broad oversight authority over hospitals and insurers, are beginning to impose their own price transparency requirements on hospitals and insurers, and to hold these entities accountable if they fail to comply with federal requirements ..read more
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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Building on new research surveying current curricular practices in schools and programs of public health (SPPH), we offer steps that SPPH might take to make public health law a “core requirement” in their curricula, thereby mainstreaming law in public health education ..read more
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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To build public trust in the Medicare drug price-setting process, CMS must implement a more defined and transparent approach to collecting and using real-world evidence of treatment heterogeneity for underserved populations, thereby affirming its commitment to health equity ..read more
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program equips doctors to go where they are most needed. Yet, this investment in advancing medical equity is under threat ..read more
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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A new study, released ahead of print by , reviewed traditional Medicare data for 2019–22, and estimated how greater telemedicine use across health systems affected spending and quality ..read more
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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For too long, there has been a failure to invest resources and efforts focused on female and sex-specific biology. As a result, we do not currently understand the basic biology that drives many conditions that burden women ..read more
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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There is an urgent need for the research and clinical communities to understand medication-managed opioid use disorder (OUD) as a long-term, chronic condition, and to develop best practices to concurrently treat acute pain and OUD ..read more
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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The United States is at a crossroads. We must choose between a future that entails poorer health outcomes, shorter lifespans, and increased health spending, or a sustained effort at transforming our system into one that fosters prevention, improves health outcomes in every respect, and bends the health care cost curve ..read more
Health Affairs Blog | Latest Insights & Commentary In Health Policy
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The Medicaid program continues to be both the bedrock means of providing comprehensive health services to low-income people as well as the central seat of innovation in our health care system around people’s co-occurring health-related social needs. But two issues are getting in the way of this essential work ..read more