A Weekly Health Policy Round Up From Health Affairs
 
 
 
 
A Weekly Health Policy Round Up From Health Affairs            

July 7, 2019
HA April 2019
IN THE JOURNAL

NEW ISSUE:
PHYSICIANS, NURSES, DISPARITIES & MORE

 The July issue of Health Affairs includes studies about physicians, nurses, disparities, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and global health policy. Among the articles are two studies from the journal’s The Practice Of Medicine series, which is supported by The Physicians Foundation.

Read the July 2019 table of contents and listen to a two-minute introduction to the issue from Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil.

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

Physicians’ Well-Being Linked To In-Basket Messages Generated By Algorithms In Electronic Health Records
By Ming Tai-Seale, Ellis C. Dillon, Yan Yang, Robert Nordgren, Ruth L. Steinberg, Teresa Nauenberg, Tim C. Lee, Amy Meehan, Jinnan Li, Albert Solomon Chan, and Dominick L. Frosch

Ming Tai-Seale and coauthors examine how physicians interact with electronic health records (EHRs) at a health care system in California. Read More >>

This paper is part of our series on The Practice of Medicine, supported by the Physicians Foundation.
HA 38/7 Tai-Seale et al.

PHARMACEUTICALS & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Sending The Wrong Price Signal: Why Do Some Brand-Name Drugs Cost Medicare Beneficiaries Less Than Generics?
By Stacie B. Dusetzina, Shelley Jazowski, Ashley Cole, and Joehl Nguyen

Stacie Dusetzina and coauthors demonstrate that some Medicare beneficiaries pay more out of pocket for generic medications than for brand-name drugs, driven by manufacturer discounts provided in the Medicare Part D coverage gap. Read More >> 


GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY

Twenty Years Of Antiretroviral Therapy For People Living With HIV: Global Costs, Health Achievements, Economic Benefits
By Steven S. Forsythe, William McGreevey, Alan Whiteside, Maunank Shah, Joshua Cohen, Robert Hecht, Lori A. Bollinger, and Anthony Kinghorn

Steven Forsythe and coauthors calculate that antiretroviral therapies have already cut annual HIV death rates by more than half relative to what they would have been, from 2.5 million to 1.1 million per year. Read More >>

BOOKMARKS

Featured Bookmarks this month include Amy Westervelt’s Forget “Having It All,” andBetween Families And Frankenstein: The Politics Of Egg Donation In The United States by Erin Heidt-Forsythe.
THIS WEEK ON THE BLOG

FOLLOWING THE ACA
By Katie Keith (7/2/19)

The effective date of the final rule is officially delayed by four months—until November 22, 2019. This delay is designed to give the parties and the court time to consider a preliminary injunction and potentially resolve the case on the merits. Read More >>


PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Innovation Prizes To Support Cell And Gene Therapy
By James C. Robinson (7/2/19)

Rather than fund R&D for cell and gene therapy primarily through patent-protected prices, this is the moment to acknowledge the shortcomings of the conventional financing framework and to consider expanding it to a portfolio of alternatives. Read More >>


Biologics Are Not Natural Monopolies
By Alex Brill and Benedic Ippolito (7/2/19)

We argue that the economic and clinical realities of biologics do not make them natural monopolies even if the market for biosimilars does not look exactly the same as the market for small molecule generics. Read More >>


Rebalancing High Prescription Drug Prices With Innovation Incentives
By Rena M. Conti and Frank S. David (7/1/19)

Finding a better balance between robust innovation incentives and high prescription drug prices should inspire aggressive information gathering, drive focused empirical experimentation, and embolden reforms already underway. Read More >>


CONSUMER HEALTH

Building Consumer Engagement In Health Care: From Transactional To Transformational
By Ann Hwang (7/2/19)

The Consumer Voices for Innovation program, funded by a legacy grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies, strives to build consumer engagement in health care. The program's first phase funded advocacy groups in six states. It succeeded in bringing consumer input to delivery system reform initiatives at the state level, such as Medicaid ACO models, managed long-term services and supports programs, and programs for dual eligibles. It also created communities of consumers. Read More >>


MEDICARE

Medicare Advantage And The Future Of Value-Based Care
By Bruce D. Broussard and William H. Shrank (7/3/19)

As we continue our journey to value-based care in this country, it is important to consider the role that Medicare Advantage is playing in delivering improved health outcomes, greater quality, and lower costs. Read More >>
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