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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 >>
HA June 2020, Figueroa et al.

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 of community-based participatory research and other strategies to enhance empowerment.
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