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

**Monday, February 10, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

ONC Should Not Delay The Release Of Its Rule

By Lucia C. Savage, Aaron Neinstein, Mark Savage, and Julia
Adler-Milstein

Stakeholders such as electronic health record vendors, providers, and
app developers must do their part and act in the spirit of the new
regulations, not lobby against them, and give Americans what they
deserve: the ability to have their data move to where it is needed. Read
More >>

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE

Battling The Mental Health Crisis Among The Underserved Through State
Medicaid Reforms

By James Maxwell, Angel Bourgoin, and Zoe Lindenfeld

State policy makers should use all available policy levers to advance
access and prevent the devastating and often tragic consequences that
these unmet mental health and substance use disorder needs can have on
the lives of individuals and families. Read More >>

MEDICARE

CMS Releases Advance Notice For Medicare Advantage And Part D Plans

By Billy Wynne and Josh LaRosa

Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released Part
II of its Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Medicare
Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part D Payment Policies for Calendar
Year (CY) 2021 and its proposed rule on policy and technical changes to
MA and Part D for CYs 2021 and 2022. This post focuses on summarizing
the Advance Notice component of this package of policies. Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

New Lawsuits Challenge Abortion Policy, AHP Advisory Opinion

By Katie Keith

Regular readers are familiar with the heaps of litigation over the
Affordable Care Act (ACA) and efforts by the Trump administration to
undermine the ACA. This post introduces two new lawsuits to the mix,
both related to recently finalized rules from the Trump administration.
Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

NURSES

Implications Of The Rapid Growth Of The Nurse Practitioner Workforce In
The US

By David I. Auerbach, Peter I. Buerhaus, and Douglas O. Staiger

According to David Auerbach and coauthors, an important recent
development in the US nursing workforce is the dramatic increase in the
number of advanced practice registered nurses (RNs), particularly those
who are prepared as nurse practitioners (NPs), with higher earning
potential. The authors examined data from the Census Bureau's American
Community Survey for the period 2010-17 and found that during that
time the number of NPs in the US rose from approximately 91,000 to
190,000. Read More >>

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A CLOSER LOOK-Ketamine

According to recent estimates, 16 million adults in the US had an
episode of major depression in the course of a year. Some experts say
that ketamine, because of its rapid action, could have a role to play in
helping to prevent suicide. A Narrative Matters piece follows a patient
as she overcomes systemic hurdles to stay on the only effective
treatment for her depression: ketamine.

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