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

**Thursday, February 6, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICAID

It's Past Time To Provide Continuous Medicaid Coverage For One Year
Postpartum

By Emily Eckert

The United States is the only industrialized nation with a maternal
mortality rate that is on the rise, increasing 26 percent between 2000
and 2014. Read More >>

TELEHEALTH

How Telehealth Can Expand Community Clinic Access And Specialist
Capacity

By Cory Simpson

Despite the challenges inherent in telehealth, the rapid expansion of
teletriage for high-demand specialties such as dermatology can be
harnessed to accelerate access to specialist-recommended care for the
many patients waiting for in-person appointments. Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Unpacking The Timing Of Texas

By Katie Keith

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it will
consider whether to hear the appeals in California v. Texas and House v.
Texas during its conference on February 21, 2020. Read More >>

HEALTH EQUITY

How Can We Dismantle Health Equity Barriers In Research?

By Lynne Garner, Nancy C. Yedlin, and Jennifer Salopek

How can funders of research dismantle health equity barriers in grant
application, grantee selection, and other processes? They should work to
root out biases that may be hidden in those processes and may be
inadvertently promoting inequities, say these authors affiliated with a
national foundation. They discuss that foundation's steps to promote
greater equity by raising awareness and revising procedures, as a number
of other funders are doing.
Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE

Gaps In Access To Opioid Use Disorder Treatment For Medicare
Beneficiaries

By Samantha J. Harris, Amanda J. Abraham, Christina M. Andrews, and
Courtney R. Yarbrough

While they have received less attention than their younger counterparts,
older adults who use Medicare have experienced large increases in the
rate of opioid-related deaths. Samantha Harris and coauthors find that
in 2016 only 13.8 percent of substance use disorder treatment programs
accepted Medicare and provided medication approved by the Food and Drug
Administration to treat opioid use disorder, compared to 24.8 percent
that accepted Medicaid and 28.6 percent that accepted private insurance.
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Hospital Use Declines After Implementation Of Virginia Medicaid's
Addiction And Recovery Treatment Services

By Andrew J. Barnes, Peter J. Cunningham, Lauryn Saxe-Walker, Erin
Britton, Yaou Sheng, Melanie Boynton, Ke'Shawn Harper, Ashley Harrell,
Chethan Bachireddy, Ellen Montz, and Kate Neuhausen

Medicaid programs have responded to the opioid crisis by expanding
treatment coverage and reforming delivery systems. Andrew Barnes and
coauthors assessed whether Virginia's Addiction and Recovery Treatment
Services program, implemented in April 2017, influenced emergency
department and inpatient use. Read More >>

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A CLOSER LOOK-Pain

Untreated pain has a profound impact on quality of life and can have
physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences. A Narrative
Matters piece
from 2019
follows one researcher's haunting experience with untreated pain that
ultimately leads to better education about and treatment for pain.

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