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

**Tuesday, June 23, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Improving Prenatal Care And Delivery In The Wake Of COVID-19: Lessons
From The 'Strong Start' Evaluation

By Sarah Benatar, Lisa Dubay, and Ian Hill

Note: We asked the authors of today's featured journal article,
"Improving Birth Outcomes And Lowering Costs For Women On Medicaid:
Impacts Of 'Strong Start For Mothers And Newborns'
," to
put their work in the context of the current coronavirus crisis.  

The "Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns" initiative-which
supported three evidence-based prenatal care models: Birth Centers,
Group Prenatal Care, and Maternity Care Homes-provides an approach
that can help meet the needs of mothers and infants during the COVID-19
pandemic. Read More >>

Pricing Remdesivir: A Domestic Reference Price Approach

By Sean Dickson and Timothy A. Lash

Domestic reference pricing for remdesivir would consider the US launch
prices of therapeutically similar drugs and adjust those prices for
inflation and the presumed increased clinical innovation of the COVID-19
treatment. Read More >>

Valuing COVID-19 Vaccines And Therapeutics-The Case For Using Novel
Value Elements

By Sachin Kamal-Bahl, Richard Willke, Justin T. Puckett, and Jalpa A.
Doshi

The pricing of vaccines and therapeutics in the context of the COVID-19
pandemic will likely have a lasting impact on how desperately needed,
innovative treatments are valued. Stakeholders should use this
opportunity to rethink the traditional cost-per-QALY paradigm and set a
precedent for a holistic conception of value. Read More >>

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HEALTH AFFAIRS PODCAST: NEWSMAKERS

Some States Begin Loosening COVID-19 Restrictions; Other States See A
Surge In Cases

In a WTOP-FM interview, Alan Weil analyzes state trends in COVID-19
cases. Some states, particularly in the South, are seeing an increase in
cases; other states, having registered steady case declines, are
beginning to relax stay-at-home guidelines. Also of interest, a recent
Fast Track Ahead of Print article, "Community Use Of Face Masks And
COVID-19: Evidence From A Natural Experiment Of State Mandates In The US
."

Listen here
.

IN THE JOURNAL

MATERNAL HEALTH

Improving Birth Outcomes And Lowering Costs For Women On Medicaid:
Impacts Of 'Strong Start For Mothers And Newborns'

By Lisa Dubay, Ian Hill, Bowen Garrett, Fredric Blavin, Emily Johnston,
Embry Howell, Justin Morgan, Brigette Courtot, Sarah Benatar, and
Caitlin Cross-Barnet

The Strong Start initiative of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Innovation supported enhanced prenatal care models for women enrolled in
Medicaid. Lisa Dubay and coauthors report significant positive results
with respect to birth outcomes, cesarean rates, and costs of delivery in
birth centers. Read More >>

Read the June 2020 Table of Contents
.

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Social Services

Proposals to extend health insurance coverage and improve access to
high-quality health care in the US-currently prominent in national
policy debates-must find ways to make expansion affordable. Elizabeth
H. Bradley and Amanda Brewster untangle the relationship between social
service and health care spending and health outcomes
in
this Health Affairs Blog post from 2019.

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