Dear John,

ICYMI, Health Affairs This Week returned last week with a new episode featuring Jeff Byers and Rob Lott discussing Medicare fraud, how prevalent it is, who's most at risk, and what measures are being taken to protect Medicare beneficiaries.

Today's Featured Articles

Medicare Enrollment Increased Visits To Primary Care Providers But Not Mental Health Care Providers, 2014–21

Donghoon Lee and Jing Li

Assessing Medicare’s Coverage With Evidence Development Program

Maryam Mooghali et al.

To Empower Consumer Choice, Standardize And Measure Quality Of Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits

Avni Gupta and Kenton J. Johnston

Medicaid And CHIP: Program Improvements And The Need To Protect Them

Daniel Tsai and Chiquita Brooks-LaSure

Modernizing Our Health Data Ecosystem Using Wastewater, Wearables, And Web Data

Aparna Keshaviah

More on Medicare

Strengths And Weaknesses Of Introducing An Inflation Factor Into The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Michael E. Chernew et al. (December 2024)

Favorable Selection In Medicare Advantage Is Linked To Inflated Benchmarks And Billions In Overpayments To Plans

Andrew M. Ryan et al. (September 2023)

Coverage Denials: Government And Private Insurer Policies For Medical Necessity In Medicare

Aaron L. Schwartz et al. (January 2022)

The Practice of Medicine Series

Health Affairs is excited to be partnering once again with the Physicians Foundation to publish articles focusing on the practice of medicine through 2027.

The Practice of Medicine series provides a platform for researchers examining topics impacting clinicians and patients to reach the breadth of stakeholders influencing the future of health care.

We invite interested authors to submit abstracts for this series.

We are interested in papers that reflect on and explore the forces impacting physicians and other clinicians and how these factors affect health care access and delivery, spending, and outcomes.

Health Workforce Issues and Challenges in the Post-Pandemic Era

Today, Health Affairs Scholar unveils the second part of their new series focusing on insights into several key issues currently affecting the health workforce.

Topics covered throughout the series will include health workforce shortages, the impact of health professions regulation, and the physical and mental well-being of health care workers, among others.