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

**Thursday, June 25, 2020**

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FAST TRACK AHEAD OF PRINT

COVID-19

Primary Care Practice Finances In The United States Amid The COVID-19
Pandemic

By Sanjay Basu, Russell S. Phillips, Robert Phillips, Lars E. Peterson,
and Bruce E. Landon

Sanjay Basu and coauthors estimate that as a result of the near
elimination of in-person visits during the first months of the COVID-19
pandemic, primary care practices will be expected to lose $67,774 in
gross revenue per full-time physician this year, reaching $15.1 billion
in losses at the national level. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

COVID-19

The Potential Health Care Costs And Resource Use Associated With
COVID-19 In The United States

By Sarah M. Bartsch, Marie C. Ferguson, James A. McKinnell, Kelly J.
O'Shea, Patrick T. Wedlock, Sheryl S. Siegmund, and Bruce Y. Lee

Sarah Bartsch and coauthors estimate the burden that the COVID-19
pandemic will place on the US health care system. Noting that per
episode costs for COVID-19 are substantially higher than for influenza
or pertussis, the authors conclude that over the course of the pandemic,
"direct medical costs incurred during the course of the infection
[range] from $163.4 billion if 20 percent of the population gets
infected to $654.0 billion if 80 percent of the population gets
infected." Read More >>

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

The COVID-19 Crisis: An Opportunity To Build A Fairer, Healthier Nation

By Nadia J. Siddiqui, Dennis P. Andrulis, Derek A. Chapman, Kimberly
Wilson, Beth Jacob, Gail C. Christopher, and Naima Wong Croal

Creating conditions for all communities to thrive is central to
containing the immediate spread and adverse outcomes of COVID-19, and to
building a country better prepared to respond to future crises. The
Health Opportunity and Equity (HOPE) Initiative, funded by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an interactive data tool showing where
the US and states are doing well, and could do better, on reaching
health equity goals. Now focused on COVID-19 and health inequities, HOPE
uses data from The COVID Tracking Project for its analyses.
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Assessing Morbidity And Mortality Associated With The COVID-19 Pandemic

By Michael A. Stoto and Matthew K. Wynia

There are widely varying estimates of deaths and illness associated with
the COVID-19 pandemic, and their accuracy has become a source of
vigorous debate. At a minimum, all states should follow guidance from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center
for Health Statistics, using standard case definitions and reporting
standards, to help ensure comparisons among states and other population
groups are more meaningful.

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How Orphan Drug Policy Could Impede Access To COVID-19 Treatments

By Kao-Ping Chua and Rena M. Conti

Many drugs being evaluated to treat or prevent COVID-19 have orphan drug
designation. Orphan drug policy could unintentionally impede access to
orphan-designated COVID-19 drugs by facilitating high prices. We suggest
reforms to mitigate price-related barriers to accessing such drugs. Read
More >>

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FOLLOWING THE ACA

Feds Carve Out Workplace COVID-19 Testing From Guaranteed Coverage And
More

By Katie Keith

On June 23, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and
Labor jointly issued a second round of guidance to implement the
COVID-19-related coverage provisions in the Families First Coronavirus
Response (Families First) Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security (CARES) Act. Collectively, these two bills require
comprehensive private health insurance plans to cover COVID-19 testing
and related services without cost-sharing, although only for the
duration of the declared public health emergency. Of note, the Trump
administration confirms that employers and insurers are not required to
pay for COVID-19 tests that are not used for diagnostic purposes. Read
More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Cardiovascular Disease

Despite being commonly thought of as a "man's disease," cardiovascular
disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States,
and women receive significantly less aggressive treatment after heart
attacks than men. Trent Haywood wrote on Health Affairs Blog

that "even in today's environment of breakthrough technologies and
life-saving treatments, we are not doing enough to understand
variabilities in practices that could impact women's lives."

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