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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Friday, July 24, 2020
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19
The Day After Tomorrow Must Include Independent Primary Care
By Azalea Kim, Scott Heiser, Leslie McKinney, Robert Overman, and Rahul Rajkumar
We now have a unique opportunity to revisit how we value and pay for health care.
The choices we make today in responding to the crisis faced by independent primary care providers during the pandemic will shape the delivery system we have the day after tomorrow, when COVID-19 is behind us. Read More >>PHARMACEUTICALS & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
Who Is Sowing Seeds Of Confusion About The QALY?
By Jennifer C. Chen and Anna Kaltenboeck
Industry-sponsored patient advocacy groups say that they find fault in the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) for technical reasons. But their stance also benefits pharmaceutical manufacturers that fund them and have an interest in disrupting efforts at value assessment. Read More >>
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IN THE JOURNAL
PHARMACEUTICALS &
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
Abandoning List Prices In Medicaid Drug Reimbursement Did Not Affect Spending
By Benedic Ippolito, Joseph F. Levy, and Gerard F. Anderson
State fee-for-service Medicaid programs have traditionally based payments to pharmacies for drugs on a percentage of the drugs’ list price. Because list prices have increased more quickly than the prices actually paid by pharmacies, estimating appropriate reimbursements has
become challenging. In recent years most states have switched to models where payments were based instead on results from a survey of pharmacy invoices. Benedic Ippolito and coauthors examined how this changed fee-for-service Medicaid drug spending. Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Back-To-School Season
As back-to-school season approaches, pressure is high on local and federal officials to make decisions about return-to-school protocol. With officials facing similar pressures in 2009 after the appearance of a novel A/H1N1 influenza strain, Alexandra Stern and coauthors drew lessons from the 1918-19 US influenza pandemic to inform policy response. Eleven years later, we face the question of school closures again. Stern’s work is especially important to the COVID-19 policy response, as her research aimed to establish “criteria for evaluating which social, political, and organizational factors facilitated or hindered the implementation of school closure during that pandemic.” Ultimately, the study found that the most successful implementation was associated with clear authority and policy
communication between health officials and the public.
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