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

**Wednesday, July 22, 2020**

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Health Affairs Online Briefing

The Care We Need: NQF and 20 Years of Quality

Thursday, July 30, 2020

In 1999, at the urging of President Clinton's Advisory Commission on
Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, the
National Quality Forum was formed to promote health care quality through
measurement and public reporting.

Twenty years later, with America in the grips of COVID-19, the work of
NQF continues and is more important than ever. A new report from the
National Quality Task Force entitled, "The Care We Need: Driving
Better Health Outcomes for People and Communities" provides a roadmap
to consistent and predictable high-quality care for every person by
2030. The Task Force consists of nearly 100 leaders and diverse
stakeholders from across the health care system.

At an online forum on July 30, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil
(who was a member of the Advisory Commission) will host leaders of the
quality movement for a discussion of the report and its recommendations
for improving the health and safety of all Americans.

Date: Thursday, July 30, 2020
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. (Eastern)
Place: Online details to come after you've registered

Speakers to include:

* Shantanu Agrawal, President and CEO, National Quality Forum

* Carolyn Clancy, Deputy Under Secretary for Discovery, Education and
Affiliate Networks, Veterans Health Administration, US Department of
Veterans Affairs; Former Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality

* Kenneth W. Kizer, Chief Healthcare Transformation Officer and Senior
Executive Vice President, Atlas Research; Founding President and CEO,
National Quality Forum

* Mary Wakefield, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Practice of Health
Care, Georgetown University; Member, President Clinton's Advisory
Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care
Industry

* Alan Weil, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs

RSVP TO ATTEND

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Paying Their Fair Share: States Should Require Increased Medicaid Health
Plan Payments To Support Safety-Net Providers In The Age Of COVID-19

By Jacob Wallace, Julia E. Smith, and Timothy J. Layton

States must act quickly and leverage the options available to prevent
catastrophic losses for safety-net providers while ensuring that
Medicaid managed care plans pay their fair share.
Read More >>

A Regionalized Public Health Model To Combat COVID-19: Lessons From
Japan

By Ryoko Hamaguchi, Kay Negishi, Masaya Higuchi, Masafumi Funato,
June-Ho Kim, and Asaf Bitton

With public health centers as its crux, Japan's unique regionalized
public health model appears to have been one of the drivers of Japan's
success in weathering the COVID-19 crisis. Japan provides an example for
countries looking to employ locally responsive public health centers to
lead regional coordination, surveillance, and triage during a pandemic.
Read More >>

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FOLLOWING THE ACA

ACA Litigation Round-Up: Part
III

By Katie Keith

In April 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that insurers were entitled to
more than $12.2 billion in unpaid risk corridors payments. This post
summarizes the latest on risk corridors litigation in the wake of that
ruling. Two prior posts focused on other recent ACA-related Supreme
Court decisions and ACA lawsuits in the lower courts. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

MEDICAID

A Medicaid Alternative Payment Model Program In Oregon Led To Reduced
Volume Of Imaging Services

By Stephan Lindner, Menolly R. Kaufman, Miguel Marino, Jean O'Malley,
Heather Angier, Erika K. Cottrell, K. John McConnell, Jennifer E. DeVoe,
and John R. Heintzman

In 2013 Oregon's Medicaid program changed its reimbursement of
traditional primary care services for selected community health centers
(CHCs) from a per visit to a per patient rate. Using Oregon claims data,
Stephan Lindner and coauthors analyzed the price-weighted volume of care
for five service areas: traditional primary care services, including
imaging, tests, and procedures; other services provided by CHCs that
were carved out from the payment reform; emergency department visits;
inpatient services; and other services of non-CHC providers. Read More
>>

Read the July 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Firearm Injury Research

In Health Affairs, Rebecca Cunningham and coauthors dissect federal
funding allocations to the leading causes of child and adolescent death:
motor vehicle accidents, firearms, and cancer. Emphasizing the stark
differences between funding allotted to firearm injury research versus
the others
, this
study aims to aid policy makers in understanding the need for additional
resources to combat this problem.

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