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

**Tuesday, April 28, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

How California Counties' COVID-19 Response Benefited From The "Whole
Person Care" Program

By Nadereh Pourat, Emmeline Chuang, and Leigh Ann Haley

In our April 2020 Health Affairs article, "Integrating Health And Human
Services In California's Whole Person Care Medicaid 1115 Waiver
Demonstration
," we
describe an ambitious program implemented through 25 pilots in 26
California counties to address the medical and social service needs of
the most vulnerable and highest-utilizing Medicaid beneficiaries, such
as those experiencing homelessness. In April 2020, we asked those pilots
to describe whether and how they used Whole Person Care (WPC)
partnerships and infrastructure to respond to COVID-19 and whether the
pandemic affected WPC implementation. Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Supreme Court Rules That Insurers Are Entitled To Risk-Corridors
Payments: What The Court Said And What Happens Next

By Katie Keith

The court's ruling upholds "a principle as old as the nation itself:
the government should honor its obligations." Insurers will receive
billions in unpaid risk-corridors payments, but it could take time, and
the impact will vary significantly by state and insurer. The impact of
the court's decision on litigation over cost-sharing reduction payments
is uncertain. Read More >>

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CULTURE OF HEALTH

Anchor Businesses Can Be Change Makers For Community Health Improvement

By Megan McHugh, Claude R. Maechling, and Jane L. Holl

Among the priority areas for Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams is the link
between the health of a community and economic prosperity. Many business
leaders have offered wellness benefits to their employees, but leaders
have historically felt less responsibility for advancing the health of
the community at-large. An RWJF program looks at how anchor businesses
could advance health and well-being-and build a culture of health-in
their communities. Read More >>

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

Saving Moms, Saving Lives

By Lauren Underwood

Taken together, the nine bills included in the Black Maternal Health
Momnibus Act of 2020 represent a sweeping effort to address our
nation's urgent maternal mortality crisis.
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IN THE JOURNAL

INTEGRATING SOCIAL SERVICES & HEALTH

Buying Health For North Carolinians: Addressing Nonmedical Drivers Of
Health At Scale

By Zachary Wortman, Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, and Mandy Krauthamer Cohen

Since 2017 the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
has asked how its resources could be optimized to buy health, not only
health care. Zachary Wortman and coauthors describe four interconnected
initiatives that the department has implemented or is implementing to
begin integrating medical and nonmedical drivers of health. Read More >>

Integrating Health And Human Services In California's Whole Person
Care Medicaid 1115 Waiver Demonstration

By Emmeline Chuang, Nadereh Pourat, Leigh Ann Haley, Brenna O'Masta,
Elaine Albertson, and Connie Lu

California launched the Whole Person Care Pilot in 2016 with the goal of
integrating care for high-utilizing Medi-Cal (California Medicaid)
enrollees. Emmeline Chuang and colleagues describe the early experience
of the pilot, which brought together county health agencies, Medicaid
managed care plans, community-based providers, and other public
agencies.
Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Sexual Orientation

Previous studies have suggested that members of sexual minority groups
have poorer access to health services than heterosexuals do. However,
few studies have examined how sexual orientation interacts with gender
and race to affect health care experience. A Health Affairs research
article by Ning Hsieh and Matt Ruther determined that despite increased
insurance coverage, nonwhite sexual minorities still experience
disparities in access to care
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