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

**Wednesday, April 8, 2020**

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IN THE JOURNAL

INTEGRATING SOCIAL SERVICES & HEALTH

Linking Health And Social Services Through Area Agencies On Aging Is
Associated With Lower Health Care Use And Spending

By Amanda L. Brewster, Traci L. Wilson, Jennifer Frehn, Diane Berish,
and Suzanne R. Kunkel

Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) have an almost fifty-year history of
providing access to social services for elderly Americans. As AAAs are
increasingly engaged in partnerships designed to improve health, Amanda
Brewster and coauthors analyze nationwide survey data on these
partnerships and find that "when AAAs established any type of
partnership with hospitals, counties covered by the AAAs experienced a
significant reduction of $135.50 per beneficiary per year in Medicare
spending." Read More >>

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TODAY ON THE BLOG
NOTE: During this global pandemic we know that now, more than ever,
it's important to share learnings from research and apply them to
today's crisis. That's why we asked Amanda Brewster from Berkeley
Public Health

and her coauthors to share recommendations on how we can apply learnings
from their article this month in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19

To Support Older Adults Amidst The COVID-19 Pandemic, Look To Area
Agencies On Aging

By Amanda L. Brewster, Traci L. Wilson, Suzanne R. Kunkel, Sandy
Markwood, and Tanya Shah

Meeting the interrelated health and social needs of older adults over
this time will require intense and sustained effort on the part of many
health care and social care providers. For this reason, at the same time
that acute hospital capacity scales up to care for people who become
critically ill, capacity for the community-based services must also
scale up to help people stay safe at home. Read More >>

What Are Foundations Doing In The Fight Against COVID-19? Part II

By Lee-Lee Prina

More and more foundations that fund in health are coming forward to help
people during this difficult time-sometimes with funding, sometimes
with useful information. Look for Part III of this series soon. Read
More >>

HOSPITALS

The CMS Hospital Star Rating System: Fixing A Flawed Algorithm

By Daniel Adelman

My proposal offers a more "explicit" way to compute hospital overall
scores. Read More >>

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Competitive Bidding Reduced Medicare Spending On Diabetes Testing
Supplies Without Negatively Affecting Beneficiary Outcomes

By Brian O'Donnell, Eric Rollins, and James Mathews

In the future, MedPAC could explore what role competitive bidding might
play in restraining the growth in Medicare spending in other sectors of
the program. Read More >>

The post appears in the series Considering Health Spending
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Health Equity

Many millions of Americans are unable to realize their full potential,
including optimal health, due to circumstances frequently beyond their
personal control in the communities where they work, live, study, and
play. The HOPE Initiative, examined in a Health Affairs Blog post,
represents an important first step toward establishing benchmarks and
metrics explicitly grounded in bringing the nation and states closer to
achieving health equity.

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