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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 >>
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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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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
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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 examined Medicaid disenrollment among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries and the relationship between disenrollment and state policies.
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