Dear John,

ICYMI, Jason Resendez, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, joined Health Affairs This Week to discuss the recent finalization of CMS's 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and how these policies will impact family caregivers and the integration of these individuals into the health care system.

Today's Featured Articles

Evidence That Regulatory And Market Forces Are Driving Adoption Of Biosimilars

Janice Jhang and Troyen A. Brennan

Janice Jhang on Policy & Market Forces Driving Biosimilar Adoption

How Medicare Is Causing Patients To Overpay For Prescription Drugs

John C. Goodman and Lawrence J. Wedekind

Global Budgeting In New York State: Lessons From Montefiore Health System

John Williford et al.

More on Biosimilars

US Commercial Plans Increase Choice Of Biosimilar And Originator Products; Market Net Prices Decrease

Molly T. Beinfeld et al. (September 2024)

The Role Of Financial Incentives In Biosimilar Uptake In Medicare: Evidence From The 340B Program

Amelia M. Bond et al. (May 2023)

Barriers To US Biosimilar Market Growth: Lessons From Biosimilar Patent Litigation

Victor L. Van de Wiele et al. (August 2021)

Dion's Chicago Dream Fights Food Insecurity One Meal At A Time

Health Affairs’ Research and Justice For All podcast returns for its second season, focusing on drivers of health. 

In the first episode of the second season of Research and Justice For All, host Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, pediatrician and public health advocate, interviews Dion Dawson from Dion's Chicago Dream about innovative ways to address food insecurity. 

Nursing Home Financial Stability and Funding Challenges

Join Health Affairs November 20 for a virtual event examining how the loss of public health emergency funds challenges the financial viability of nursing homes.

This event is for Health Affairs Insiders only.

In the November issue of Health Affairs, John Bowblis and colleagues reviewed the impact that the loss of public health funding has on the financial health of nursing homes, especially not-for-profits, in the long term.

Health Affairs Senior Editor Kathleen Haddad and Bowblis will discuss the paper and its implications during a virtual Journal Club.

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

It is Native American Heritage Month and we are highlighting voices who have made an impact on Native and Indigenous health equity and policy.

In a July 2023 Forefront article, Kurt Brenkus and Lori Coffae argue that fixing our fractured American Indian/Alaska Native health care system will require not just the public sector in the form of federal, state, and tribal governments, but the private sector as well.