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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
HEALTH CARE FINANCE
How Can State Legislation Promote Value In Health Care? Three Innovative Models
By Roslyn Murray, Suzanne F. Delbanco, and Jaime S. King
A small number of states have made progress in advancing value-based payment through legislation to create Medicaid accountable care organizations (ACOs) and establish new regulatory authorities. These initiatives can serve as helpful models for new state efforts to support the sustainability of physician practices, ease the pandemic-induced strain on state budgets, and improve health care value for all who use and pay for health care services.
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IN THE JOURNAL
COVID-19
An Overview Of Vaccine Development, Approval, And Regulation, With Implications For COVID-19
By Aaron S. Kesselheim, Jonathan J. Darrow, Martin Kulldorff, Beatrice L. Brown, Mayookha Mitra-Majumdar, ChangWon C. Lee, Osman Moneer, and Jerry Avorn
Aaron Kesselheim and coauthors review the extensive process followed by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and point out the unique benefit-risk balance necessitated by “the fact that the new product will be administered to very large numbers of healthy people in a short period of time.” Read More >>
COVID-19 Vaccine To Vaccination: Why Leaders Must Invest In Delivery Strategies Now
By Rebecca L. Weintraub, Laura Subramanian, Ami Karlage, Iman Ahmad, and Julie Rosenberg
Rebecca Weintraub and coauthors point out that “the COVID-19 vaccine portfolio requires urgent, unprecedented investment in the delivery strategies and systems needed to generate vaccine demand and facilitate vaccine allocation, distribution, and verification of coverage.” Read More >>
Clinical Outcomes Of A COVID-19 Vaccine: Implementation Over Efficacy
By A. David Paltiel, Jason L. Schwartz, Amy Zheng, and Rochelle P. Walensky
David Paltiel and coauthors use modeling to show that vaccine distribution and uptake, along with levels of community infection leading up to administration, will have at least as much influence on the ultimate burden of COVID-19 as the effectiveness of the vaccine itself.
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A CLOSER LOOK—Health Priorities In 2021
As a new administration prepares to enter the White House this month, and COVID-19 vaccines continue to be distributed, albeit slowly, many people in government, health care service, and policy communities are forming US health priorities for 2021. There is no doubt that achieving herd immunity for COVID-19 is high on the list, but with many other health issues exacerbated by the virus and inequities laid bare, questions remain about where to focus efforts to rebuild population health in the wake of a global pandemic. Revisit a January 2019 blog post by Lisa Simpson that discusses three health priorities that demanded action heading into 2019.
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