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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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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 >>
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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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