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

**Wednesday, February 26, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

Understanding The Impact Of Prenatal Care: Improving Metrics, Data, And
Evaluation

By Rebecca A. Gourevitch, Alex Friedman Peahl, Margaret McConnell, and
Neel Shah

Understanding the role of prenatal care in maternal and infant
well-being will require developing more meaningful quality metrics,
leveraging new data sources, and finding new and creative ways to
conduct evaluations with careful attention to selection bias. Read More
>>

IN THE JOURNAL

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Out-Of-Network Primary Care Is Associated With Higher Per Beneficiary
Spending In Medicare ACOs

By Sunny C. Lin, Phyllis L. Yan, Nicholas M. Moloci, Emily J. Lawton,
Andrew M. Ryan, Julia Adler-Milstein, and John M. Hollingsworth

Despite expectations that Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs)
would curb health care spending, their effect has been modest. One
possible explanation is that ACOs' inability to prohibit
out-of-network care limits their control over spending. To examine this
possibility, Sunny Lin and coauthors looked at the association between
out-of-network care and per beneficiary spending using national Medicare
data for 2012-15. Read More >>

See ourConsidering Health Spending
page for more on this
series topic.

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A CLOSER LOOK-Law Enforcement And Trauma Care

When health care and law enforcement intersect in trauma care, which
rules apply? This Health Affairs Blog post argues that, "while
challenging, developing policy to extend cross-disciplinary
collaboration within emergency department settings
in
a way that protects the rights and well-being of patients, health care
providers, and the public is an ethical imperative."

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