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

**Monday, October 19, 2020**

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In 2016, in partnership with the Physicians Foundation,

**Health Affairs** launched an article series on the  "Practice of
Medicine" focusing on important health policy issues affecting
physicians. The effort has produced a comprehensive collection of policy
research in the field.  

On

**Thursday, October 29,**

**Health Affairs** Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will host an online forum
examining the growing expectation that physicians address the social
determinants of their patients' health. The program will highlight
three recent

**Health Affairs** papers in the Practice of Medicine series that
discuss Medicare's Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and how
it handles patients' risk factors. It will also feature

**Michelle Schreiber**, Deputy Director for Quality and Value, Center
for Clinical Standards and Quality in the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, who oversees MIPS implementation.

Confirmed speakers include:

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**Nate C. Apathy**, Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Services Research,
Perelman School of Medicine, and Associate Fellow, Leonard Davis
Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, on "High
Rates Of Partial Participation In The First Year Of The Merit-Based
Incentive Payment System"

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**Kenton J. Johnston**, Associate Professor, Health and Policy, College
for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, on
"Clinicians With High Socially At-Risk Caseloads Received Reduced
Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Scores"

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**Rocco Perla**, Co-Founder, The Health Initiative

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**Gary Price**, President, Physicians Foundation

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**Alexander T. Sandhu**, Instructor of Medicine, Stanford, on
"Adjustment For Social Risk Factors Does Not Meaningfully Affect
Performance On Medicare's MIPS Clinician Cost Measures"

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**Michelle Schreiber**, Deputy Director for Quality and Value, Center
for Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS)

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**Karen L. Smith**, Family Practitioner, Raeford, NC

Date:

**Thursday, October 29, 2020**

Time: 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Eastern

Place:

**Online meeting details to be shared after registration**

**Health Affairs** is grateful to the Physicians Foundation for its
support of The Practice of Medicine series and event, and to Lawrence P.
Casalino, Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell
Medicine, who serves as adviser to the series.

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICAID

As Trump Administration Seeks US Supreme Court Review, A Second Year Of
Results From Medicaid Work Experiments Emerges

By Sara Rosenbaum, Benjamin D. Sommers, and Nia Johnson

Research published in the September issue of Health Affairs provides a
rare opportunity to observe the effects of insurance-reduction policies
after a court intervened to set aside approval of Arkansas' Medicaid
work experiment. In this blog post, we discuss the issues at hand and
the importance of rapid research and evaluation. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

CHILDREN'S HEALTH

Children And The Opioid Epidemic: Age-Stratified Exposures And Harms

By Kelby W. Brown, Kayla Carlisle, Sudha R. Raman, Peter Shrader, Megan
Jiao, Michael J. Smith, Lisa M. Einhorn, and Charlene A. Wong

Among adult patients admitted for opioid use disorder treatment,
one-third report having their first opioid exposure in childhood,
highlighting the importance of addressing early opioid exposures. In
this study Kelby Brown and coauthors characterized age-stratified opioid
exposures, opioid-related harms, and disparities for North Carolina
Medicaid-insured children. Read More >>

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Read the October 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Foundations And Social Determinants Of Health

****The phrase "social determinants of health" encompasses an
intimidating number of factors. The medical community has seen this
daunting task in the past few years and begun tackling it. However,
clinicians are not the only ones in the field. Reread this 2018
GrantWatch blog post by Douglas Easterling and Laura McDuffee for a
review of the philanthropic interpretation of social determinants of
health.

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