Dear John,

Last week, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil appeared on the Turn on the Lights Podcast to discuss opportunities to improve the US health care system and how to combat widespread misinformation.

Today's Featured Articles

From the Journal: The COVID-19 Pandemic Led To A Large Decline In Physician Gross Revenue Across All Specialties In 2020

Ravi B. Parikh et al.

Forefront: AI And Health Insurance Prior Authorization: Regulators Need To Step Up Oversight

Carmel Shachar et al.

More on Primary Care

• Adult Primary Care Physician Visits Increasingly Address Mental Health Concerns by Lisa S. Rotenstein et al.
• Home-Based Care Reimagined: A Full-Fledged Health Care Delivery Ecosystem Without Walls by Christine Ritchie and Bruce Leff
• A Health Podyssey: Features Of A Zero-Burnout Primary Care Practice

The United States is facing a national epidemic of diet-related chronic disease—including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and obesity.

While a range of diet and lifestyle interventions have been implemented to address these issues, there is widespread recognition that much more work remains to be done at the federal, state, and local levels to improve access to healthy, safe, and affordable foods; eradicate hunger; and reduce health disparities.

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health to be published in April of 2025. In this issue, we aim to provide evidence from research on policy interventions to show what works and what holds promise.

The submissions portal is open as of today and the deadline to submit an abstract is July 29.

To learn more, check out the Request for Abstracts page now.

Scene Report from AcademyHealth's ARM Conference

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers chats with Senior Editors Kathleen Haddad and Meg Winchester about their recent trip to AcademyHealth's 2024 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Baltimore and the main takeaways that the two found regarding private equity, opioid use, and solutions-oriented research.