Dear John,

Yesterday, Health Affairs released a new issue focusing on meeting care needs, pharmaceuticals, and more.

Today's Featured Articles

Hospital Nurse Staffing Legislation: Mixed Approaches In Some States, While Others Have No Requirements

Nithya Krishnamurthy et al.

Closing The Gap In Value-Based Care: Lessons From Provider-Led ACO Experience

Clive Fields and Gary M. Jacobs

More on Patient Care

Patients Receive Flexible And Accessible Care When State Workforce Barriers Are Removed

Bianca K. Frogner (August 2022)

Building The Mental Health Workforce Capacity Needed To Treat Adults With Serious Mental Illnesses

Mark Olfson (June 2016)

A Health Podyssey: Nursing Homes Have A Staff Turnover Crisis – Even Before COVID-19 (March 2021)

Brandy Lipton on the Medicaid Coverage Gaps of Eye Care

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Brandy Lipton of the University of California Irvine on her recent research that finds that most state Medicaid programs offer coverage for routine eye exams for adults, but noticeable coverage discrepancies of other routine vision care services remain.

Call For Forefront Submissions

Health Affairs is launching a Forefront Series, “Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage.”

Funded by The SCAN Foundation, the series will feature policy analysis, policy proposals, and commentary to inform the rapidly changing policy landscape on this topic.