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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, February 20, 2020
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
MEDICAID
Medicaid Enrollment Programs Offer Hope To Formerly Incarcerated Individuals And Savings For States
By Abaki Beck
Given the initial findings on usage of Medicaid services, reduced recidivism, and state savings, it seems advantageous for all states to expand Medicaid to our formerly
incarcerated community members. Read More >>
Inside The D.C. Circuit’s Opinion In Gresham v Azar
By Alexander Somodevilla and Sara Rosenbaum
In a unanimous opinion written by Judge David Sentelle, a three-judge court affirmed a lower court ruling that set aside the approval of Arkansas’s Medicaid work experiment by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Read More >>
CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING
How Administrative Spending Contributes To Excess US Health Spending
By Laura Tollen, Elizabeth Keating, and Alan Weil
In 2018, Health Affairs launched the Council on Health Care Spending and Value, a nonpartisan, expert working group that will, over the course of three years, develop recommendations about how the US could take a more deliberate approach to moderating health care spending growth while maximizing value. This post, the first in a
series providing a view into the council’s discussions, recaps its inquiry into administrative spending.
Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Opioid Use Disorder
Medications such as methadone and buprenorphine are effective treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD), but levels of use remain low. Given the importance of the news media as a source of health information for the public and its role in shaping knowledge about these medications, Alene Kennedy-Hendricks and coauthors examined reporting on OUD medication treatment amid the opioid crisis.
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