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Health Affairs recently published a new Health Policy Brief. Our briefs provide a clear overview for people to use to quickly get up to speed on health policy topics.
The recent brief summarizes, from a US perspective, the increasing interest in nutrition security;
the current state of screening and other measurement tools, including intersections with measurement of food security and diet quality; and potential interventions to address this issue at both individual and population levels.
This release centers on Medicaid Advantage benchmarks.
Concerns that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are overpaid have motivated calls
to reduce MA benchmarks, but this might impact enrollee premiums and benefits. Michael Chernew and coauthors examine how cuts to MA benchmarks may affect plan generosity.
Chernew will also join us on A Health Podyssey podcast to discuss the paper.
For more than forty years, questions about health care spending levels and growth have been an important focus of Health Affairs.
In February, the Council on Health Care Spending and Value released their findings on how the US can moderate
health care spending growth and maximize value. The report, is freely available and includes recommendations on:
Last month, we
published a cluster of research papers focused on lessons for public health policy and practice arising from the COVID-19 pandemic experience in the US.
This collection of articles expands the national dialogue on lessons from the COVID-19 public health response.
Specifically, articles discuss trends in the public health workforce during the pandemic, ways to improve coordination between public health and medical care systems, strategies for mitigating community spread of COVID-19 at the local level, and recommendations for modernizing emergency health powers laws.
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