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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, September 19, 2019
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
PHARMACEUTICALS & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
Understanding The House Democrats’ Drug Pricing Package
By Rachel Sachs
In this post, I first summarize key provisions from the Democrats’ proposal, explaining how it aims to lower prescription drug prices. Then, I situate this package from the Speaker within the broader set of drug pricing reforms being considered by the federal government. Finally, I present a key objection the package is likely to face from the Republican caucus and consider questions that remain for the substance of the package. Read More >>
FOLLOWING THE ACA
Section 1557 Litigation: Latest Developments
By Katie Keith
Judge O’Connor set a hearing on the motion to intervene for September 16 in Fort Worth, Texas. From here, he is expected to rule on the motion to intervene and potentially on the request for summary judgment. Read More >>
PATIENT-CENTERED CARE
Accelerating The Shift Toward Person-Generated Real-World Evidence
By Tanisha Carino and Mark McClellan
Gaps in evidence from traditional clinical trials, coupled with progress in the availability and use of standardized electronic data, has led to increasing interest in real-world data (RWD)—recently defined by the FDA as "data relating to patient health status and/or the delivery of health care routinely collected from a variety of sources." Read More >>
MEDICAID
What Some Researchers Get Wrong About Medicaid’s Income Eligibility Requirements
By Tricia Brooks
The bottom line is this—the National Bureau of Economic Research working paper used as the basis for the recent Wall Street Journal commentary is relying on unadjusted self-reported survey data as a proxy for actual Medicaid income eligibility and enrollment. Read More >>
QUALITY OF CARE
Cultural Competence Is Key To Meeting Patients' Needs: One Perspective From New York City
By Hewett Chiu
Cultural competence is essential to providing high-quality care and is a bedrock for meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse patient population. Throughout his career, this author has set out to change the health care system at the community level to better meet the needs of patients
facing language or cultural barriers to care. Key to helping him on this path was his participation in the United Health Foundation's Diverse Scholars Initiative. Read More >>
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS
AGING AND HEALTH: IMPROVING CARE FOR OLDER
ADULTS
NEXT WEEK! September 24, 2019
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Eastern
National Press Club – 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
Registration
Open
On September 24, join Health Affairs and The John A. Hartford Foundation for a robust policy conversation featuring authors from the journal’s Aging & Health series:
- Tamara Konetzka, Professor of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health Sciences and Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago Biological Sciences, on "A National Examination Of Long-term Care Setting, Outcomes, And Disparities Among Elderly Dual-Eligibles" (July 2019)
- Katherine A. Ornstein, Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, and Research Director, Institute for Care Innovations at Home, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on "Spousal Caregivers Are
Caregiving Alone In The Last Years Of Life" (June 2019)
- Brad Stuart, Chief Medical Officer, Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, on "A Large-Scale Advanced Illness Intervention Informs Medicare’s New Serious Illness Payment Model" (June 2019)
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IN THE JOURNAL
THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINEUS Physicians’ Reactions To ACA Implementation, 2012–17
By Lindsay Riordan, Rahma Warsame, Sarah Jenkins, Kandace Lackore, Joel E. Pacyna, Ryan M. Antiel, Timothy Beebe, Mark Liebow, Bjorg Thorsteinsdottir, Matthew Wynia, Susan Dorr Goold, Matthew DeCamp, Marion Danis, and Jon Tilburt
There have been few analyses of physicians’ views of the ACA, and none examining changes over time. To fill this gap, Lindsay Riordan and coauthors compared responses to their 2012 and 2017 surveys of US physicians’ perceptions and approval of the ACA.
Read More >>
The Practice Of Medicine series is
supported by The Physicians Foundation.
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A CLOSER LOOK—Flu
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that last year there were 37 million to 43 million flu illnesses in the US, and 36,400-61,200 flu-related deaths. This Health Affairs Blog post from June of this year calls seasonal influenza vaccination "a tool to advance epidemic and pandemic preparedness in low- and middle-income countries."
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