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

**Monday, June 29, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Is It Fair? How To Approach Professional Scope-Of-Practice Policy After
The COVID-19 Pandemic

By Alden Yuanhong Lai, Susan M. Skillman, and Bianca K. Frogner

Swift relaxation of scope-of-practice policies was necessary to build
health care workforce capacity during the pandemic. To avoid detrimental
effects on health care professionals, decisions on whether to roll back
these changes should not be equally swift. Read More >>

Medicaid Managed Care Plans Have An Opportunity To Play A Key Role In
Recovery

By Jeremy Cantor, Rachel Tobey, Nicole Giron, and Tracey Kirui

States should encourage Medicaid managed care plans to act now to
address social needs related to COVID-19; the alternative is to wait for
social and economic despair to manifest as health conditions and provide
clinical treatment then. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

HEALTH EQUITY

Avoidable Hospitalizations And Observation Stays: Shifts In Racial
Disparities

By José F. Figueroa, Laura G. Burke, Kathryn E. Horneffer, Jie Zheng,
E. John Orav, and Ashish K. Jha

Racial disparities in hospitalization rates for ambulatory
care-sensitive conditions are concerning and may signal differential
access to high-quality ambulatory care. Whether racial disparities are
improving as a result of better ambulatory care versus artificially
narrowing because of increased use of observation status is unclear.
Using Medicare data for 2011-15, José Figueroa and coauthors sought
to determine whether black-white disparities in avoidable
hospitalizations were improving and evaluated the degree to which
changes in observations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions may
be contributing to changes in these gaps. Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Disparities

Community-based participatory research is a promising approach to
reducing health disparities. It empowers individuals and communities to
become the major players in solving their own health problems. In a 2016
Health Affairs article, Beti Thompson and coauthors discussed the use
ofcommunity-based participatory research and other strategies to enhance
empowerment
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