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

**Thursday, June 18, 2020**

Health Affairs is closed tomorrow in honor of Juneteenth.

The next issue of this newsletter will be published on June 22.

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COSTS & SPENDING

A Scalpel Instead Of A Sledgehammer: The Potential Of Value-Based
Deductible Exemptions In High-Deductible Health Plans

By Douglas Barthold and Anirban Basu

Value-based high-deductible health plans would ensure access to
high-value services by exempting their costs from deductibles, while
also providing consumers with transparency on the full costs of
low-value services and disincentivizing their use. Read More >>

COVID-19

In The COVID-19 Era, And Beyond, Symptom Monitoring Should Be A
Universal Health Care Function

By Robert S. Rudin, Mark W. Friedberg, and Daniel A. Solomon

As countries, states, and cities reopen, millions of people are
projected to contract COVID-19, threatening to overwhelm inpatient and
aftercare capacity. Central to a successful response by national health
care systems, and to preparing for inevitable future disease outbreaks,
is symptom assessment. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

PHARMACEUTICALS & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

The Impact Of Academic Medical Center Policies Restricting
Direct-To-Physician Marketing On Opioid Prescribing

By Matthew D. Eisenberg, Elizabeth M. Stone, Harlan Pittell, and Emma E.
McGinty

Examining a period when academic medical centers increasingly adopted
restrictions on marketing practices related to opioids, Matthew
Eisenberg and coauthors find "evidence that the presence of
restrictions-specifically, bans on sales representatives and
disclosure requirements-were associated with reduced volume of opioid
prescribing."
Read More >>

Read the June 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Personal Assistance Services

Millions of older Americans and their families use paid personal
assistance services (PAS) as an alternative to nursing homes. Lisa
Iezzoni and coauthors note in their June 2019 analysis in Health Affairs
that finding solutions to the growing gap between demand for the
services and the capacity of the PAS workforce requires policies that
cut across societal sectors and align incentives for consumers, workers,
and other key stakeholders
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