As we reflect on the incredible journey of Health Affairs Scholar’s first six months, it’s remarkable to see the impact achieved by its authors.
Health Affairs Scholar, an open access journal, is the first new journal published under the aegis of Health Affairs and Project HOPE since our founding in 1981. The new publication opened its first issue in June 2023.
In her recent “Overview: From the Editor,” Health Affairs Scholar Editor-in-Chief Kathryn Phillips highlights a few standout contributions.
We encourage readers to review the highlights from Scholar below.
1. Ten health policy challenges for the next 10 years by Kathryn A Phillips, Deborah A Marshall, Loren Adler, Jose Figueroa, Simon F Haeder, Rita Hamad, Inmaculada Hernandez, Corrina Moucheraud, and Sayeh Nikpay
2. Why is it so hard for academic medical centers to succeed in value-based care? by Bob Kocher and Robert M Wachter
3. The Better Care Plan: a blueprint for improving America's healthcare system by Stephen M Shortell, John S Toussaint, George C Halvorson, Jon M Kingsdale, Richard M Scheffler, Allyson Y Schwartz, Peter A Wadsworth, and Gail Wilensky
4. Measuring private equity penetration and consolidation in emergency medicine and anesthesiology by Loren Adler, Conrad Milhaupt, and Samuel Valdez
5. Perspectives of private payers on multicancer early-detection tests: informing research, implementation, and policy by Julia R Trosman, Christine B Weldon, Allison W Kurian, Mary M Pasquinelli, Sheetal M Kircher, Nikki Martin, Michael P Douglas, and Kathryn A Phillips
6. A holistic view of innovation incentives and pharmaceutical policy reform by Rachel Sachs, Loren Adler, and Richard Frank
7. Is employment group insurance financing of expensive gene therapies threatened in the United States? by Jalpa A Doshi, Morgan Eilers, Atul Gupta, Mark Pauly, and Alexander L Olssen
8. Access challenges for patients with limited English proficiency: a secret-shopper study of in-person and telehealth behavioral health services in California safety-net clinics by Lori Uscher-Pines, Kandice Kapinos, Claudia Rodriguez, Samantha Pérez-Dávila, Pushpa Raja, Jorge A Rodriguez, Maya Rabinowitz, Mara Youdelman, and Jessica L Sousa
9. Recent modifications to the US methadone treatment system are a Band-Aid—not a solution—to the nation's broken opioid use disorder treatment system by Noa Krawczyk, Paul J Joudrey, Rachel Simon, Danielle M Russel, and David Frank
10. Patient-centered inpatient psychiatry is associated with outcomes, ownership, and national quality measures by Morgan C Shields, Mara A G Hollander, Alisa B Busch, Zohra Kantawala, and Meredith B Rosenthal
