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Sunday, September 3, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
 
Health Affairs Scholar Issue 2 Highlights

Health Affairs Scholar, our new open access journal focused on emerging and global health policy, publishes articles as soon as they are ready in what is called the "continuous publishing" model.

It also publishes "Advance Articles" of the unedited manuscripts upon acceptance.

Speed is a key feature of Health Affairs Scholar, with a journal issue "in progress" until month-end.
Here are a few highlights from the newly completed issue:

Pharmaceuticals

One paper already garnering media attention is a Brief Report on U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals.

Robert Kaplan and coauthors that found that 41% of new drugs in 2017 were approved on the results of a single study, and no results were publicly reported for 20% of the new drugs.


In another report, Julia Rucker and coauthors tracked commercial insurance coverage of specialty drugs. While most plans increased restrictions on these complex, high-cost pharmaceuticals during 2017-2021, four plans did not.

Health Equity

When it comes to equitable access to health care, words matter.

In a paper by Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba and colleagues, they found that
health care use by children of immigrants declined following the heated rhetoric relating to immigrants surrounding former president Donald Trump’s election and the proposed public charge rule.

Racial disparities among frail older patients undergoing palliative care in the US was the focus of a study by Kyung Mi Kim and colleagues.

Maternal Health & Primary Care   
         

Half of maternal deaths occur in the postpartum year, and most are preventable.

Julia D. Interrante, Caitlin Carroll, and Katy B. Kozhimannil examined categories of
postpartum care use among privately insured US patients using a cluster-analytic approach.

Three papers in the issue explore aspects related to primary care.

Leighton Ku and colleagues found that despite such major changes as the passage of the Affordable Care Act and growth of managed care,
"Differences in the duration or scope of [primary care] visits are primarily related to differences in patient, visit, or practice characteristics, not the type of insurance."

Virna Little and coauthors examined the
prevalence of suicide risk among a US national sample of patients referred from primary care.

And don’t miss the Review Article by Robert Berenson, Adele Shartzer, and Hoangmai H. Pham on
implementing a primary care hybrid payment model in Medicare.

Nursing Homes

Amanda Chen and David Grabowski report in their Research Article that nursing homes underreport antipsychotic use but overreport diagnoses qualifying for appropriate use.

And Kelly Hughes and colleagues found that
rates of nursing home closures in the U.S. were relatively stable over the past decade.
             
For all these papers and more, see the full table of contents for Health Affairs Scholar, Issue 2.

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A Health Podyssey
Sean Dickson on Therapeutics' Impact on Pharmaceutical Prices & Drug Spending

Health Affairs' Alan Weil interviews Sean Dickson from West Health Policy Center on his recent paper examining the changes in net prices and spending for pharmaceuticals after the introduction of new therapeutic competition.

CMS Enters the Octagon, Names 10 Drugs for Price Negotiations

Health Affairs' Rob Lott and Chris Fleming discuss Biden administration's announcement regarding the first 10 drugs selected for Medicare price negotiation.

 
Liz Fowler

On Thursday, September 14, you are invited to join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for our next "Policy Spotlight" event, a one-on-one conversation with Elizabeth "Liz" Fowler, Deputy Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the US Department of Health and Human Services.

The main topic of the conversation will be the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model, CMMI’s new voluntary nationwide model that aims to support people living with dementia and their unpaid caregivers. They will also touch on the CMMI strategy refresh that’s informing future model development and value-based care sustainability, and their ongoing focus on improving the care experience for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

Date: Thursday, September 14, 2023

Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
 
Health Affairs Forefront
Seeking Diagnosis On The Internet
Elaine O. Nsoesie

Confronting The Harms Caused By Racism In Perinatal Drug Testing
Diana Montoya-Williams and Rachel Fleishman

The FDA’s Dueling Narratives: Protector Versus Obstacle
John D. Lantos and Marc Rodwin

The Commercialization Of COVID-19 Vaccines Raises Equity Concerns
Deborah Lefkowitz et al.

Assessments Of Drug Safety And Effectiveness Continue To Fail People With Obesity
Christina Chow et al.

Transparency In Coverage: A New Tool For Promoting Provider Gender Equity?
Morgane Mouslim and Morgan Henderson

Beyond HIPAA: The FTC’s Increasing Focus On Protecting Health Data
Carmel Shachar et al.

Improving The Infrastructure For Neighborhood Indices To Advance Health Equity
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia et al.

Medicare Imaging AUC Program: Sometimes Less Is More
Andrew R. Menard et al.

 
Introducing: Research and Justice For All

Research and Justice For All is a podcast from Health Affairs that provides perspectives on how to dismantle unjust systems and structures that have long impacted health outcomes in historically marginalized populations.

Hear how to challenge injustices in health care – rooted in racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of exclusion – through research, evidence, community-building, and other potential and innovative solutions.

The first six-episode season, "Private Sector Solutions for Health Equity," is sponsored by CVS Health and co-hosted by Dr. Sree Chaguturu, Chief Medical Officer (CVS Health) and Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Chief Health Equity Officer (CVS Health).

The season features interviews with C-Suite level executives, such as Karen DeSalvo (Google), Rashad Burgess (Gilead Sciences), and Thomas D. Sequist (Massachusetts General Brigham) as they discuss private sector initiatives and responsibility to advance health equity.

The first episode goes live next Wednesday, September 6.
 
 
About Health Affairs

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