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

**Tuesday, June 2, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

How The Rapid Shift To Telehealth Leaves Many Community Health Centers
Behind During The COVID-19 Pandemic

By June-Ho Kim, Eesha Desai, and Megan B. Cole

By reorienting the goals for implementing telehealth, policy makers,
payers, and providers can empower health centers to thrive in the future
and meet the nation's underserved patients where they are, even during
the COVID-19 pandemic. In the long run, telehealth can increase access
and equity, but only if the right investments are made now to fill the
gaps laid bare by the pandemic. Read More >>

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Out-of-Network Spending: Why Growing Attention Is Focused On A Small
Share Of Medical Spending

By William C. Johnson, Kevin Kennedy, Jean Fuglesten Biniek, Zirui Song,
and Jacob Wallace

The decreases in the share of spending on out-of-network services are
attributable to a decline in the utilization of out-of-network care. In
contrast, out-of-network charges per service have grown rapidly, and
have exposed patients to potentially larger balance bills in recent
years. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

RURAL HEALTH

Varying Trends In The Financial Viability Of US Rural Hospitals,
2011-17

By Ge Bai, Farah Yehia, Wei Chen, and Gerard F. Anderson

Ge Bai and colleagues examine financial trends for approximately 1,000
rural US hospitals that collectively serve about sixty million people.
Between 2011 and 2017 overall profit margins declined for all hospital
types except nonprofit critical access hospitals, which saw their
margins increase, on average, from 2.5 percent to 3.2 percent. Read More
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Social Determinants Of Health

As we seek to recognize the importance of social determinants of health
on health outcomes, we must create systems that support their
integration into care delivery. A Health Affairs Blog post by Douglas P.
Olson, Benjamin J. Oldfield, and Sofia Morales Navarro discusses
standardizing social determinants of health assessments.

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