Sunday, June 11, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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The June issue of Health Affairs explores a wide range of topics, including children’s Medicaid coverage, competition in the biosimilars market, sites of care for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and more.
One of the areas of focus in this issue was drug pricing.
Through the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, state Medicaid programs receive mandatory rebates when prices rise faster than inflation.
Congress expanded that program in 2017 to include generic drugs.
Benjamin Rome and coauthors find that between 2017 and 2020, inflationary rebates "offset an estimated 2–12 percent of the $54 billion total Medicaid generic drug spending."
They find that after the introduction of biosimilars in 2019– 20, Herceptin accounted for 45.3 percent of Medicare trastuzumab claims, whereas Kanjinti (a biosimilar) accounted for 39.6 percent of claims.
Check out the table of contents to take a look at all of the articles in this month's edition.
In honor of Pride Month, Health Affairs' Kathleen Haddad and Michael Gerber discuss the state of health policy related to the LBGTQ+ community. They discuss the impact of state policies on the community, the burgeoning data on gender, and more.
Health Affairs' Alan Weil interviews Kelsey Owsley from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on her new paper assessing whether the 340B drug pricing program leads to increase in oncology services in rural hospitals.
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