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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Wednesday, February 5, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

How A Medicare Part D Inflation Penalty Would Lower Drug Spending For
Patients, Taxpayers, And Employers

By Anna Anderson-Cook, Kevin Love, Andrea Noda, and Mark E. Miller

In this post, we analyze potential manufacturer pricing responses to
reinforce that patients, taxpayers, and employers would all save money
if the inflation penalty were to become law. Read More >>

PUBLIC HEALTH

Delhi In A Chokehold: Air Pollution As A Public Health Emergency

By Kashish Aneja, Margherita Cina, Juliette McHardy, and Larry Gostin

With air pollution in Delhi reaching new peaks, solutions must include
unconventional and unpopular measures that tackle short- and long-term
causes and benefit all residents of the city. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS BRANDED POST

The Value of Medicare Advantage: 21st Century Care

By Allyson Y. Schwartz and Gaurov Dayal
Supported by the Better Medicare Alliance

Here's a startling fact: the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention found that Americans made a record-setting 145.6 million
visits to hospital emergency rooms in 2016 alone, the most recent year
for which this data is available. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

CULTURE OF HEALTH

Evidence-Based Community Health Worker Program Addresses Unmet Social
Needs And Generates Positive Return On Investment

By Shreya Kangovi, Nandita Mitra, David Grande, Judith A. Long, and
David A. Asch

Tackling the issue of return on investment head-on, Shreya Kangovi and
coauthors show positive returns based on results from a randomized
controlled trial of the community health worker intervention program
called Individualized Management for Patient-Centered Targets (IMPaCT).
Using these workers to address the unmet social needs of high-risk
patients generated an annual return to Medicaid (the payer) of $2.47 for
each dollar spent.
Read More >>

Health Care Spending And Use Among People Experiencing Unstable Housing
In The Era Of Accountable Care Organizations

By Katherine A. Koh, Melanie Racine, Jessie M. Gaeta, John Goldie,
Daniel P. Martin, Barry Bock, Mary Takach, James J. O'Connell, and
Zirui Song

Katherine Koh and colleagues examine the impact of homelessness and
unstable housing on health care spending and use. They compare those
continuously enrolled in the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
with those enrolled in Massachusetts Medicaid with no evidence of
experiencing homelessness. The authors find that in the period
2013-15, "average annual unadjusted total spending for people who
experienced episodes of homelessness was 2.5 times greater than that
among the comparison population."
Read More >>

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HEALTH AFFAIRS REQUEST FOR ABSTRACTS-Climate and Health

**Health Affairs** is planning a theme issue on climate and health, to
be published in December 2020. We thank the Kresge Foundation and the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for their generous support of this issue.

We primarily seek empirical work-original research, systematic
reviews, well-designed case studies-that presents evidence and
analysis aimed at contributing to our knowledge. Papers should have a
strong policy orientation, and we will put a premium on work that
supports future planning and decision making. We are interested in
reports of successful and failed initiatives and will also consider a
small number of commentaries and overview papers to supplement the
empirical work and provide context.

**Deadline: February 24, 2020**
Preparation and formatting guidelines

Submit abstracts via our online submission form

**Queries:** [email protected]

A CLOSER LOOK-Caregiving

Caregiving in the last years of life is associated with increased
depression and negative health outcomes for surviving spouses, many of
whom are themselves in poor health. A Health Affairs journal article
argues that further innovations in care delivery and reimbursement
are needed
to adequately support seriously ill older adults and their caregivers.

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