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

**Thursday, August 1, 2019**

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS

HEALTH SPENDING:  MOVING FROM THEORY TO ACTION

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
9:00 am - 3:00 pm Eastern
National Press Club - Washington, DC
REGISTRATION OPEN

Eighteen months ago, Health Affairs teamed with the National
Pharmaceutical Council and Anthem, Inc., to launch a multi-year project
to promote an evidence-based conversation about health spending. To
continue the discussion, Health Affairs and the National Pharmaceutical
Council are hosting a forum that will address:

* The pressures presented by soaring health costs on individuals,
employers, and government

* Strategies among payers and others to promote cost-effective care

* Efforts currently underway to bring costs under control

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

PAYMENT

Advancing Bundled Payments Through Radiation Oncology Episodes

By Amol S. Navathe, Justin E. Bekelman, and Joshua M. Liao

The recently proposed RO Model emphasizes several new policy levers that
can drive health care value but have been partially or completely
unexplored in bundled payment programs to date. Read More >>

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GRANTWATCH

Screening For Social Needs: What Do Parents Think?

By Suzanne Brundage (7/30/19)

Public Agenda was commissioned by United Hospital Fund to conduct focus
groups on what parents of low-income children in the New York City metro
area think about screening for social determinants of health at their
pediatrician's office. Although parents had some reservations about
discussing sensitive topics, they were still enthusiastic about
discussing factors that shape their kids' health and well-being. Three
foundations fund this UHF initiative.
Read More >>

Lessons In Philanthropy: Three Decades Of Improving Health In Kansas

By Steve Coen (7/24/19)

The leader of the Kansas Health Foundation (since 2008) reflects on his
31 years of working at the statewide foundation and looks to retirement.
For example, he says, the foundation saw a need for health data and for
leadership skill-building in the state, and so the KHF created the
nonprofit Kansas Health Institute, which focuses on health policy, and
the Kansas Leadership Center. Read more >>

Engaging Youth To Advance Community Health, Equity, And Safety

By Marian Mulkey and Adiel Suarez-Murias (7/10/19)

Engaging and supporting youth as allies to advance community health,
equity, and public safety is an approach that funders and practitioners
often overlook. Yet youth are at the front lines in experiencing poor
conditions, and these young people have a long-term stake in community
well-being. Engaging young people benefits those involved. Also,
available evidence suggests that this approach can improve community
outcomes.Read More >>

Building Consumer Engagement In Health Care: From Transactional To
Transformational

By Ann Hwang (7/2/19)

The Consumer Voices for Innovation program, funded by a legacy grant
from the Atlantic Philanthropies, strives to build consumer engagement
in health care. The program's first phase funded advocacy groups in six
states. It succeeded in bringing consumer input to delivery system
reform initiatives at the state level, such as Medicaid ACO models,
managed long-term services and supports programs, and programs for dual
eligibles. It also created communities of consumers. Read More >>

The Ethics Of Population Aging: Precarity, Justice, And Choice

By Nancy Berlinger and Mildred Z. Solomon (6/27/19)

Bioethics has contributed greatly to enhancing the rights of patients to
guide treatment decisions near the end of life, but the field has fallen
short in addressing population-level concerns that aging societies now
face, say these authors from The Hastings Center. With foundation
funding, the center is looking at how social determinants of health may
lead to "unequal aging" and at the ethical choices about dying that are
important to people facing dementia. Read More >>

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Diabetes

A new report from BuzzFeed News chronicles how young adults are
rationing their diabetes medicine after they turn twenty-six (and lose
access to their parents' insurance). A Health Affairs paper from the
July 2019 issue examined how Wisconsin's expansion of Medicaid
benefits
increased
access and decreased out-of-pocket costs for antidiabetic drugs.

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