Join Us: Medicare Advantage Event on July 8th 🗓️

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Today's Featured Articles

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Brady Post et al.

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Katie Keith

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Danielle N. Poole

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Yashaswini Singh et al. (February 2025)

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Michael E. Chernew et al. (December 2024)

The Promise And Pitfalls Of Site-Neutral Payments In Medicare ([link removed] )

Christopher M. Whaley et al. (September 2024)

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Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage: Understanding the Challenges, Improving Effectiveness ([link removed] )

Join Health Affairs for a free virtual event featuring insights from a year-long special series, Supplemental Benefits In Medicare Advantage ([link removed] ) .

On July 8, Health Affairs’ Kathleen Haddad will moderate a discussion with a panel of experts on how well MA supplemental benefits fill the health care and non-medical health related needs of MA enrollees.

Speakers include:

- Narda Ipackhi, The SCAN Foundation
- Eric Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
- Claire Cruse, ATI Advisory
- Chris Esguerra, Health Plan of San Mateo
- Andy Friedell, Helper Bees

This event is open for all to attend.

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Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits: What We've Learned ([link removed] )

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Kathleen Haddad to the pod to discuss the Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits In Medicare Advantage, and how articles from the series elaborated on issues such as challenges in understanding and accessing benefits, CMS requirements to collect encounter data, and more.

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Celebrating Pride Month

Jessica McCann and coauthors examined the barriers ([link removed] ) that people who identify as women, including Black women and transgender women, have in accessing PrEP prescriptions.

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