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How Vaccination Shapes COVID-19 Costs in Medicaid

In an ahead-of-print paper released last week, Jamison Pike and coauthors compare acute and postacute medical spending by COVID-19 vaccination status for child and adult medicaid enrollees.

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Health Affairs This Week: Make America Healthy Again...Again

A Health Podyssey: Treatment Courts and Health Outcomes w/ Elizabeth Van Nostrand

LIVE with Jennifer Kao on the Risk Evaluation On Generic Approvals Of US Pharmaceuticals

Join us for a free live taping of A Health Podyssey on October 22 where Jennifer Kao will discuss her upcoming paper exploring the impact of risk evaluation and mitigation strategies on generic approvals of US pharmaceutical products.

Remembering John Iglehart, Health Affairs Founding Editor

Gerald F. Anderson et al.

The Threat To Vaccine Uptake From Kennedy’s Policies: Taking Stock Under A New ACIP

Anna Larson and Richard Hughes IV

part of our Health Policy At A Crossroads series

Growth Of C-SNPs May Be Jeopardizing Medicare-Medicaid Integration

Rebekah I. Stein et al.

part of our Medicare and Medicaid Integration series

The Supreme Court Upheld DSH Payment Restrictions: Another Challenge For Hospitals

Renée M. Landers

How States Can Mitigate The Harm Of HCBS Cuts

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