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

**Thursday, January 30, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

PHARMACEUTICALS AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Managing Uncertainty In Drug Value: Outcomes-Based Contracting Supports
Value-Based Pricing

By Daniel S. Mytelka, William M. Cassidy, Donald B. Kohn, and Mark R.
Trusheim

Outcomes-based contracts do not undercut value-based pricing. Read More
>>

ACCESS TO CARE

Successful Decarceration Relies On Access To Health Care

By Jacqueline Lantsman and Mark Osler

If we are going to release more people from prison (and we should), we
must ensure that health care coverage is in place to stabilize their
lives and enable them to thrive among us.
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INTEGRATION OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES

Working Across Sectors To Improve Health For Older People: The Community
Care Connections Program

By Elisa Fisher, Kelley Akiya, Annie Wells, Yan Li, Christine Peck, and
José A. Pagán

With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, researchers at New
York University and the New York Academy of Medicine evaluated the
Community Care Connections (CCC) program, which aims to integrate social
services into medical systems of care. There are some promising results
from the 2016 to 2019 time period-for example, CCC program
participants experienced a 29 percent reduction in inpatient
hospitalizations. Read More >>

GRANTWATCH

**The Five Most-Read GrantWatch Blog Posts Of 2019**

By Lee-Lee Prina (1/27/20)

See which are the top-five blog posts of 2019 in GrantWatch, our series
on health philanthropy. This year, blog posts on a variety of topics
were popular. Read More >>

You've Got To Hear This: Funding A New Health Policy Podcast

By Steven Birenbaum and Jordan Reese (1/15/20)

The podcasting world is bursting with content, and there are an
increasing number of health policy podcasts to choose from. Health
philanthropy has been getting involved in this medium, too. For example,
two foundations are supporting a new podcast at the intersection of
economics and health policy. Staffers at the two funders explain why
they believe in the potential of podcasts and how they plan to build an
audience. Read More >>

What Is The Status Of Research On Low-Value Care?

By Elizabeth L. Cope and Paul Armstrong (1/8/20)

Using the HSRProj database (which includes projects funded by federal
and private grants and contracts), researchers at AcademyHealth looked
at recent trends in health services research on low-value care (LVC).
The authors explain that LVC can include "overuse, underuse,
inappropriate use, and unnecessary care." They found that LVC research
increased between 2014 and 2017. They also learned which study topics
were popular during their search period (January 1, 2014-March 31,
2019). Read More >>

Staff And Board Changes At Health Funders; Health Policy Job Opening

By Lee-Lee Prina (12/23/19)

Read people news from funders around the United States, and check out a
job opening for a vice president of health policy. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

GRANTWATCH

Philanthropic Strategy In The Face Of An Opioid Epidemic

By Jennifer Chubinski and Michelle Lydenberg

The authors are staffers at Interact for Health, a foundation that has
worked to address the opioid epidemic in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area
since 2008. Cincinnati was particularly hard hit. Their article (free
access) discusses the evolution of the foundation's ongoing work on
the crisis. Interact was the region's first funder to dedicate
significant financial and staff resources to combating the problem. The
funder's role went beyond awarding grants, though: it served as a
neutral convener, a subject-matter expert, and-in the area of harm
reduction-a catalyst for change. The article covers Interact's
funding strategy, outcomes of its funding, lessons learned (from 2008 to
2018), and plans for the future. Read More >>

Read the January 2020 Table of Contents

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A CLOSER LOOK-Influenza

If you live in the US, your risk of contracting the new strain of
coronavirus identified in China is exceedingly low. However, more than
150,000 Americans have been hospitalized due to the flu, and more than
8,000 people have died from their infection. Despite official
recommendations for health care workers to receive the influenza
vaccine, uptake remains low. A Health Affairs journal article assesses
interventions to improve influenza vaccine uptake
among
health care workers.

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