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

**Tuesday, October 13, 2020**

IN THE JOURNAL

LEADING TO HEALTH: CHILDREN'S HEALTH

A Statewide Approach To Improving Child Health And Health Care

By Rebecca Gale

A dynamic network aims to help Vermont's pediatric practices navigate
an evolving quality improvement landscape. Read More >>

This article appears in Health Affairs' series Leading To Health
.

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Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews journalist Rebecca Gale, author of
today's featured article, to discuss her reporting on the Vermont Child
Health Improvement Program (VCHIP), a pediatric program run by the
University of Vermont to help pediatric providers, payers, and policy
makers negotiate the complex health care ecosystem.

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.

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Despite A Bumpy Road Ahead, Incremental Progress On Price Transparency

By Harris Meyer

Employers, workers, and state and federal policy makers have a daunting
task ahead to squeeze down hospital and physician prices, by far the
highest in the world, in the face of fierce resistance to price
transparency from both providers and insurers. Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Silver-Loading Likely To Continue Following Federal Circuit Decision On
CSRs

By Aviva Aron-Dine and Christen Linke Young

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that insurers were
entitled to recover unpaid cost-sharing reduction payments, but only to
the extent they had not recouped their losses through higher premiums.
We expect lengthy legal proceedings, at the end of which most insurers
will not receive much-if any-compensation for 2018 to the present.
Read More >>

New Report: Unsubsidized Marketplace Enrollment Continues To Decline

By Katie Keith

On October 9, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a
new report on enrollment trends in the individual market from 2014 to
2019. Even as year-over-year Marketplace enrollment has remained steady,
enrollment in the individual market among unsubsidized consumers (those
whose income does not qualify them for premium tax credits) continues to
decline. Read More >>

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Children's Mental Health

**** This month's issue of Health Affairs focuses on children's
health. As you read our content, consider also rereading Jane Knitzer
and Janice Cooper's research article from 2006. The paper reviews
then-contemporary access, outcomes, and quality in the mental health
system for children. The authors suggest that future reforms need to
focus on the organization level of care delivery
.
Now, 14 years later, have we?

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