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

**Monday, March 16, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

Opportunities To Expand Telehealth Use Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

By Jared Augenstein

Telehealth offers unique capacity for remote screening, triage, and
treatment, and it could be a powerful tool for reducing transmission of
coronavirus to and among health care workers and patients. Read More >>

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FOLLOWING THE ACA

Unpacking The Coverage Provisions In The House Coronavirus Bill

By Katie Keith

On March 14, 2020, the US House of Representatives passed the Families
First Coronavirus Response Act, a relief package with bipartisan
support, by a vote of 363 to 40. The multi-billion dollar legislation,
which was negotiated by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Trump
administration, is expected to be taken up by the US Senate soon. This
legislation builds on a separate coronavirus spending package from early
March that authorized $8.3 billion in emergency funds to address the
crisis. Read More >>

ACCESS TO CARE

It's Time To Take Patient Experience Measurement And Reporting To A
New Level: Next Steps For Modernizing And Democratizing National Patient
Surveys

By Rick Evans, Shari Berman, Esther Burlingame, and Stephanie Fishkin

We highlight the major improvements needed to modernize national patient
experience surveys, to improve the content, administration, and
analysis, and to democratize them, by making the data more accessible
and understandable to all health care stakeholders.
Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

The Changing Landscape Of Primary Care: Effects Of The ACA And Other
Efforts Over The Past Decade

By Deborah Peikes, Erin Fries Taylor, Ann S. O'Malley, and Eugene C.
Rich

Deborah Peikes and coauthors describe myriad Affordable Care Act
initiatives designed to support primary care and the lessons learned
from those efforts. Read More >>

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A CLOSER LOOK-Complex Needs

People with complex needs often have functional limitations, such as the
inability to effectively communicate, move about, or take care of
themselves without additional help, and they may have behavioral health
needs that typically incur high health care costs. Julie P.W. Bynum
writes that "recent efforts to increase accountability for health
outcomes and costs has put a spotlight on the immense challenge of
providing high-quality and efficient care to people with complex needs,
many of whom require inputs from both the medical and social care
systems to remain at their highest functional capacity." Read more in
a Health Affairs Blog

post from June 2018.

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