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

**Thursday, May 14, 2020**

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FAST TRACK AHEAD OF PRINT

Strong Social Distancing Measures In The United States Reduced The
COVID-19 Growth Rate

By Charles Courtemanche, Joseph Garuccio, Anh Le, Joshua Pinkston, and
Aaron Yelowitz

To minimize the spread of COVID-19 during March and April, US state and
local governments joined worldwide efforts to impose social distancing
measures. They have included bans on large social gatherings, public
school closures, the shuttering of entertainment-related businesses, and
shelter-in-place orders. Charles Courtemanche and coauthors examined the
impact of these four measures, separately and collectively, and found
that these policies reduced the daily COVID-19 growth rate by 5.4
percentage points after 1-5 days, 6.8 percentage points after 6-10
days, 8.2 percentage points after 11-15 days, and 9.1 percentage
points after 16-20 days. Read More >>

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

COVID-19 And State Medical Liability Immunity

By Benjamin J. McMichael, John R. Lowry, William H. Frist,  and R.
Lawrence Van Horn

COVID-19 has created a health care environment that is unprecedented and
ripe for litigation. To provide physicians with some protection in the
face of this emergency, states have begun taking action to address
medical liability. Read More >>

A Model For Avoiding Unequal Treatment During The COVID-19 Pandemic

By Somnath Saha and Mary Catherine Beach

COVID-19 has imposed on hospitals and health systems the threat of
having to ration scarce resources. As health systems grapple with how to
ensure truly fair resource allocation, Oregon's experience with health
care prioritization offers lessons. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE

The Impact Of Medicare's Mental Health Cost-Sharing Parity On Use Of
Mental Health Care Services

By Benjamin Lê Cook, Michael Flores, Samuel H. Zuvekas, Joseph P.
Newhouse, John Hsu, Rajan Sonik, Esther Lee, and Vicki Fung

The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 phased
in cost-sharing reductions in Medicare for outpatient mental health
services in the period 2010-14. Benjamin Lê Cook and coauthors
assessed whether this reduction in mental health cost sharing was
associated with changes in specialty and primary care outpatient mental
health visits and psychotropic medication fills. Read More >>

Read the May 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries
For some low-income Medicare beneficiaries, Medicaid provides financial
protection against Medicare's out-of-pocket costs, but many Medicare
beneficiaries who qualify for Medicaid are not continuously enrolled. In
a Health Affairs journal article, Eric Roberts and coauthors
examinedMedicaid disenrollment among fee-for-service Medicare
beneficiaries
and
the relationship between disenrollment and state policies.

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