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Health Affairs Today
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 >>

A CLOSER LOOK—Schools

Schools in the US have become an important delivery system for building healthier habits and lifestyles for children. In their 2018 blog post, Carey Howard, Charles Homer, Melissa Gillooly, Robert J. Vinci, and Megan H. Bair-Merritt urge that policy makers take advantage of this by creating new requirements for Medicaid. Reread the post and consider how children’s health will be impacted by schools moving to a virtual setting.
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