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On December 3 Health Affairs hosts an exclusive Insider virtual event where our editors discuss 2025's most memorable submissions and take audience questions.

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Today's Featured Articles

Value-Based Payments Associated With Improved Quality Of Care At Federally Qualified Health Centers, 2014–23

Kun Li et al.

UnitedHealthcare Pays Optum Providers More Than Non-Optum Providers

Daniel R. Arnold and Brent D. Fulton

To learn more about this paper, check out an episode of A Health Podyssey featuring author Daniel R. Arnold.

The 340B Rebate Pilot Model: Weighing 340B Program Integrity Against Financial Stability For The Safety Net

Sayeh Nikpay

Challenging The Administration’s Weaponized And Lethal “Gold Standard Science”

Nancy Krieger

part of our Health Policy At A Crossroads series

More on the 340B Program

Reform The 340B Drug Pricing Program As A Capped Safety-Net Grant

Anthony M. DiGiorgio and Deborah Williams (October 2025)

States Considering Laws To Protect 340B Contract Pharmacy Should Consider Tradeoffs

Sayeh Nikpay (May 2025)

The Role Of Financial Incentives In Biosimilar Uptake In Medicare: Evidence From The 340B Program

Amelia M. Bond et al. (May 2023)

Community & State is the business segment of UnitedHealthcare that provides health care coverage for the economically disadvantaged, the medically underserved and those without the benefit of employer-funded health plans. These state-based health plans meet local needs, while leveraging the national resources of UnitedHealthcare.

Does UnitedHealthcare Pay Optum Providers Differently? w/ Dan Arnold

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Dan Arnold of Brown University to discuss his recent paper exploring higher payments within UnitedHealth’s Optum network, which found UHC Paid Optum providers more than non-Optum Providers using price transparency data.

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Join Health Affairs on December 3 for an exclusive Insider virtual event to hear our editors discuss 2025's most memorable submissions and take audience questions.

Editors to join the event include:

• Don Metz, Executive Editor and Interim Editor-in-Chief
• Jessica Bylander, Deputy Editor
• Kathleen Haddad, Senior Editor
• Ellen Bayer, Senior Editor
• Marianne Amoss, Senior Editor