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

**Thursday, September 17, 2020**

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FAST TRACK AHEAD OF PRINT

COVID-19

The Risk Of Severe COVID-19 Within Households Of School Employees
And School-Age Children

By Thomas M. Selden, Terceira A. Berdahl, and Zhengyi Fang

Thomas Selden and coauthors analyzed data from the Medical Expenditure
Panel Survey for 2014-17 to examine how often persons with underlying
health issues that place them at increased risk for severe COVID-19 were
connected to elementary or secondary schools, either as employees or by
living in households with school employees or school-age children.
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TODAY ON THE BLOG

QUALITY OF CARE

To Design Equitable Value-Based Payment Systems, We Must Adjust For
Social Risk

By Philip M. Alberti, Christie Teigland, and David R. Nerenz

Using social risk adjustment in value-based payment programs would not
mask poor quality of care nor would it disincentivize quality
improvement. The absence of such adjustment does nothing to address
racial inequities in health and health care; if anything, it makes the
problems worse. Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

New GAO Report On Deceptive Coverage Marketing; Extended GA Waiver
Comment Period

By Katie Keith

On September 16, the US Government Accountability Office released a new
report revealing troubling marketing practices by sales representatives
selling products that do not have to comply with the Affordable Care
Act's consumer protections.Read More >>

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Mental Health Parity

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) was made law
in 2008. In 2016, Nathaniel Counts and coauthors assessed the
shortcomings of the MHPAEA and explained their confusion on the law's
role in addressing the still-low accessibility of cost-effective and
evidence-based behavioral services. Reread the post and consider whether
progress has been made.

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