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

**Wednesday, May 20, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

It's Time To Talk About COVID-19 Prices

By Robert W. Dubois

We need a national conversation about how we are to value and price
treatments for COVID-19 to ensure access today and innovation tomorrow.
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Valuing And Pricing Remdesivir: Should Drug Makers Get Paid For Helping
Us Get Back To Work?

By Joshua T. Cohen, Peter J. Neumann, and Daniel A. Ollendorf

If early results from trials of remdesivir among patients with advanced
COVID-19 withstand the scrutiny of peer review, what might be a
"reasonable" or "fair" price for such a treatment?
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These posts appear in the series Considering Health Spending.

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IN THE JOURNAL

QUALITY OF CARE

Assessing The Effectiveness Of Peer Comparisons As A Way To Improve
Health Care Quality

By Amol S. Navathe, Kevin G. Volpp, Amelia M. Bond, Kristin A. Linn,
Kristen L. Caldarella, Andrea B. Troxel, Jingsan Zhu, Lin Yang, Shireen
E. Matloubieh, Elizabeth E. Drye, Susannah M. Bernheim, Emily Oshima
Lee, Mark Mugiishi, Kimberly Takata Endo, Justin Yoshimoto, and Ezekiel
J. Emanuel

Amol Navathe and coauthors report on a cluster-randomized controlled
trial they conducted with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii to
investigate the effects of three types of feedback as mechanisms to
improve health care quality: feedback on the physician's own
performance, feedback that included comparison to peers, and peer
comparisons feedback combined with a financial incentive tied to
outcomes. Read More >>

Improving The Accuracy Of Hospital Quality Ratings By Focusing On The
Association Between Volume And Outcome

By Laurent G. Glance, Caroline P. Thirukumaran, Yue Li, Shan Gao, and
Andrew W. Dick

Laurent Glance and coauthors explore the complex topic of how to measure
quality in smaller hospitals, where low case volumes can yield wide
year-to-year fluctuations in outcomes. The authors demonstrate the
viability of various approaches to combining individual hospital results
with national performance of similar-size hospitals. Read More >>

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