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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Monday, March 16, 2020
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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 >>
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.
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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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