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

**Wednesday, September 9, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

TELEHEALTH

Five Ways-Beyond Current Policy-To Truly Integrate Telehealth Into
Primary Care Practices

By Avni Gupta, Ann M. Nguyen, Ji Eun Chang, Alden Yuanhong Lai, Carolyn
A. Berry, and Donna R. Shelley

There is an urgent need for strategies to support the integration of
telehealth into primary care, as barriers to implementation can lead to
widening patient-level disparities in access to high-quality care.
Existing gaps offer actionable opportunities for public and private
insurers and policy makers to intervene and improve telehealth
integration. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

RESEARCH ARTICLE: PHARMACEUTICALS & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Characteristics Of Biomedical Industry Payments To Teaching Hospitals

By Timothy S. Anderson, Walid F. Gellad, and Chester B. Good

The Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires biomedical companies to
report payments made to physicians and teaching hospitals to the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Timothy Anderson and coauthors
examined 2018 CMS Open Payments program data to identify all nonresearch
payments made by industry to teaching hospitals and determined that 91
percent of teaching hospitals received industry payments totaling $832
million in 2018. Read More