Dear John,

ICYMI, Jared Walker of Dollar For appeared on A Health Podyssey to discuss his recent paper that explores the widely varying criteria amongst US nonprofit hospitals to determine who qualifies for free and discounted charity care.

Today's Featured Articles

Resumption Of Medicaid Eligibility Redeterminations: Little Change In Overall Insurance Coverage

Sumedha Gupta et al.

How Agencies Should Decide Which Costly Drugs To Target With Government March-In Rights

Jishian Ravinthiran et al.

More on Medicaid Coverage

Unwinding And The Medicaid Undercount: Millions Enrolled In Medicaid During The Pandemic Thought They Were Uninsured

Dong Ding et al. (May 2024)

Extended Postpartum Medicaid Eligibility Is Associated With Improved Continuity Of Coverage In The Postpartum Year

Sarah H. Gordon et al. (January 2022)

Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Options For Reform

Sara Rosenbaum and Gail R. Wilensky (March 2020)

Research and Policy Insights about the Opioid Crisis

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on research and policy insights about the opioid crisis, to be published in September of 2025.

We invite all interested authors to submit abstracts for consideration for this
issue.

Our submission portal for abstracts is open now.

In order to be considered, abstracts must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM Eastern time (U.S.), December 2, 2024.

Uses of Health Care Price Transparency Data: Status, Innovations, Opportunities

Join Health Affairs December 4 for a virtual event on the current uses of hospital and insurer price transparency data and efforts to improve their usability and reliability.

Drawing upon articles in the Health Affairs Forefront series “Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector,” supported by Arnold Ventures, the panelists will discuss their experiences using the data, as well as needs and ideas for future improvement. 

Sabrina Corlette of Georgetown University will moderate the virtual briefing. 

Speakers include: 

• Ge Bai, Johns Hopkins University
• Jean Abraham, University of Minnesota
• Michael Conway, Colorado Division of Insurance 
• Shawn Gremminger, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
• Steve Parente, University of Minnesota