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

**Tuesday, August 11, 2020**

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As scientists and clinicians race to develop effective treatments to
improve survival from COVID-19 and a vaccine to control the SARS-CoV-2
virus, Health Affairs has launched a new project to help identify for
policy makers the critical decisions they will face that will have a
substantial effect on whether and how quickly society reaps the benefits
of these advances.

You are invited to join us on Monday, August 24, for a virtual symposium
when some of the top minds in the field will join Health Affairs
Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for a discussion of these issues.

**Featuring:**

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* Margaret A. Hamburg, Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug
Administration

* Orin Levine, Director, Global Delivery Programs, Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation

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**Rena M. Conti**, Dean's Research Scholar, Questrom School of
Business, Boston University; Associate Professor, Markets, Public
Policy, And Law, Associate Research Director, Institute For Health
System Innovation And Policy

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**Mark Feinberg**, President and CEO, IAVI

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**Nicole Lurie,** Strategic Adviser to the CEO, Coalition for Epidemic
Preparedness Innovations; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School; and
former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, US Department
of Health and Human Services

* Rebecca Lynn Weintraub, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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**Gavin Mark Yamey**, Professor, Practice of Global Health, Sanford
School of Public Policy, Duke University

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**Others to be announced**

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**Health Affairs** is grateful to the following sponsors for their
support of this work and this symposium:  Anthem, Inc., Amgen, Inc.,
Avalere, Kaiser Permanente, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America (PhRMA), Gilead Sciences, McKesson, Quest Diagnostics, Dynavax,
Alexion, and Danaher.

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

After COVID-19, A Payment Policy Reboot: Three Lessons From The Pandemic
On How To Improve Value-Based Payment

By Amol S. Navathe and Joshua M. Liao

Prior to COVID-19, payment policy had largely involved incremental
changes. While positive, this approach has been insufficient on its own
to move Medicare off its unsustainable course toward insolvency.
COVID-19 provides a powerful wake-up call to address these issues. Read
More >>

How To Ensure COVID-19 Doesn't Delay Value-Based Care

By Soleil Shah and Bob Kocher

The longer we proceed under pure fee-for-service models, the longer
health care costs will spiral with limited improvements in quality. We
suggest supporting the adoption and existence of accountable care
organizations; creating opportunities for new value-based payments; and
preventing the loss of value-based opportunities via private equity or
large hospital network acquisitions. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

RESEARCH ARTICLE: ORGANIZATION OF CARE

Financial Integration's Impact On Care Delivery And Payment Reforms: A
Survey Of Hospitals And Physician Practices

By Elliott S. Fisher, Stephen M. Shortell, A. James O'Malley, Taressa
K. Fraze, Andrew Wood, Marisha Palm, Carrie H. Colla, Meredith B.
Rosenthal, Hector P. Rodriguez, Valerie A. Lewis, Steven Woloshin, Nilay
Shah, and Ellen Meara

Elliott Fisher and coauthors write that national data on what different
types of health care organizations are actually doing to improve care
are "largely missing from the existing literature." This article aims to
address this knowledge gap to determine the relationship between
financial integration of hospitals and physician practices and better
quality, as measured by higher levels of adoption of care delivery and
payment reforms. Read More >>

Read the August 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Telehealth

Telehealth undoubtedly presents great promise in making high-quality
care available to underserved populations. This is even more important
in the midst of a pandemic like COVID-19. However, what is missing from
the equation of policy + telehealth = access to care? Jeongyoung Park,
Clese Erikson, Xinxin Han, and Preeti Iyer investigate in Health
Affairs.

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