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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs

Monday, July 27, 2020

TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

Village Versus Virus: Rural Ethos Protects Where Public Health Fails
By Anne N. Sosin and Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song

Despite the many challenges that these systems face, rural health systems and communities were able to mount an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic that helped to stem the spread of the disease, created capacity to respond to a surge, and protected their most vulnerable populations. Read More >>


Data-Driven Solutions For COVID-19 In Skilled Nursing Facilities: MDS ‘Section Y’
By Barry S. Fogel

In the present SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, decisions about health policy and clinical care for skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents are being made daily despite a lack of comprehensive data to inform them. I propose a feasible, cost-efficient, and rapidly implementable solution to the data gap: the addition of a new section to the Minimum Data Set for SNF residents comprising data specific to COVID-19. Read More >>
FOLLOWING THE ACA

Marketplace Effectuated Enrollment Data Stable; Report Shows Slight Increase In Risk Scores
By Katie Keith

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released two new reports. The first includes a full year of Marketplace enrollment data for the 2019 plan year and preliminary effectuated Marketplace enrollment data for the 2020 plan year. The second report is the summary risk adjustment report for 2019 detailing about $10.8 billion in transfers. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Pharmacist-Prescribed And Over-The-Counter Hormonal Contraception In Los Angeles County Retail Pharmacies
By Dima Mazen Qato, G. Caleb Alexander, Jenny S. Guadamuz, Sun Choi, Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr, and Stacy Tessler Lindau

Dima Qato and coauthors use a census of retail pharmacies in Los Angeles County to evaluate contraception availability a year after California implemented a statewide order granting pharmacies prescriptive authority for preventive contraceptives, and four years after federal law eliminated age restrictions on obtaining emergency contraception. Read More >>

A CLOSER LOOK—Fauci On Pandemics

Anthony Fauci has advised six presidents through many epidemics as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In his February 2017 Health Affairs Blog post, “What Three Decades of Pandemic Threats can Teach Us About the Future,” Fauci revisits his time leading the nation through the (ongoing) HIV/AIDS epidemic, swine flu, Ebola, and the Zika virus. Writing well before COVID-19, Fauci emphasizes that the government and scientific and medical communities cannot afford to look only toward the end of the current crisis.

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