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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, February 6, 2020
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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.
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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. Read More >>
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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