Dear John,

Health Affairs Scholar is excited to announce a call for papers on three topics: 

• Global Aging
• Intersections of Social Policies and Health
• Policy Options for the 340B Drug Discount program

Today's Featured Articles

Expected Out-Of-Pocket Costs: Comparing Medicare Advantage With Fee-For-Service Medicare

Benedic Ippolito et al.

The Impact Of The Election On Health Policy And The Courts

Zachary Baron et al.

Section 1557 Rule Mandates Identification And Mitigation Of Discriminatory Clinical Algorithms

Juyoun Han et al.

Employer Plans Beware: Alternative Funding Programs May Be Riskier Than They Appear

Ashira Vantrees

More on Medicare Advantage

Medicare Advantage Health Risk Assessments Contribute Up To $12 Billion Per Year To Risk-Adjusted Payments

Hannah O. James et al. (May 2024)

State-Level Variation In Low-Value Care For Commercially Insured And Medicare Advantage Populations

Lauren A. Do et al. (September 2022)

Comparing Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare: A Systematic Review

Rajender Agarwal et al. (June 2021)

Health Affairs Branded Post:

Quantifying upstream drivers of health can help compound improvement in downstream outcomes

Nivedha Subburaman et al.

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Leemore Dafny Joins Our 200th Episode

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

It is Native American Heritage Month and we are highlighting those working to advance Native and Indigenous health equity and policy.

In an October 2023 article, Arielle Deutsh and coauthors analyze how funding policy maintains structural inequity within Indigenous community-based organizations. The study authors used a system dynamics approach to “discuss how ‘capability traps’ arise."