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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 >>
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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.
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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