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Tuesday, July 25, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From
Health Affairs

Dear John,

ICYMI: We released an ahead-of-print article on how early OxyContin
marketing was linked to long-term spread of infectious diseases
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associated with injection drug use.

Psychiatrist Network Breadth Across Markets

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Access to mental health services in the US remains difficult, even for
those with insurance.

In the July 2023 issue of Health Affairs
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Jane Zhu and her team of coauthors compare psychiatrist network breadth,
a measure of the availability of psychiatric providers in an area that
are considered "in network," across Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicaid
managed care, and Affordable Care Act (ACA) plan markets.

Zhu and coauthors find that network breadth was narrower in MA than in
Medicaid managed care and ACA plan markets.

They estimate that the share of narrow markets was 64.6 percent in the
MA market, compared to about 40 percent in the Medicaid managed care and
ACA plan markets.

For more on this article, listen to the latest episode of A Health
Podyssey
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featuring lead author Jane Zhu and Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief
Alan Weil.

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On

**Tuesday, August 1**,

**Health Affairs** will host it's first-ever virtual live recording of
the popular podcast, A Health Podyssey
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The event will be combined with the Health Affairs

**Policy Spotlight** event series.

We hope you will join us on that day when our Editor-in-Chief,

**Alan Weil**, welcomes

**Dr. Meena Seshamani**, the Director of the Office of Medicare at the
US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). They will discuss
several crucial issues that are coming to the forefront including:

* Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), with revised
negotiation guidance coming summer

* Recent significant policy changes related to Medicare Advantage

* Ongoing efforts to expand value based care.

This event is OPEN TO ALL.

 

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Jane Zhu on Narrow Networks in Medicare Advantage Plans
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Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jane Zhu from Oregon
Health and Science University about a recent paper assessing
psychiatrist network breadth across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid Managed
Care Plans and Affordable Care Act plans in 2019.

Listen
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Studying The Distinct Impact Of 'Post-COVID Condition' On Medicaid
Enrollees
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Evan Cole et al.

Cost Sharing And Its Discontents
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Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav

 

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