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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
HOSPITALS
By Chris Wheeler and Russ Taylor
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) promulgated a new rule for hospital pricing, effective January 1, 2021, that would require disclosure of a wide range of hospital prices. This blog post reviews the history, requirements, and scope of the CMS rule; industry criticisms of the rule; the lawsuit challenging it; and the prospects for compliance. While the CMS rule will not single-handedly normalize health care pricing, it at least promises to make it more transparent. Read More >>
PAYMENT
Value-Based Purchasing Rule For Medicaid Rx Drugs: Continuing To
Shift From FFS Toward Accountability
By Seema Verma, John Coster, and Jeet Guram
Drug pricing is a prime candidate for value-based reforms, especially given the advent of new high-priced but potentially curative medications ill-suited to fee-for-service financing. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently finalized changes to Medicaid’s Drug Rebate Program to facilitate and enable more value-based payment arrangements for drugs. Read More >>
LEGAL & REGULATORY ISSUES
On January 13, 2021, President Trump signed the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2020 into law. The new law amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945, which has long exempted insurers from federal antitrust laws.Read More >>
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IN THE JOURNAL
MEDICAID
Medicaid Expansion And Health Services Use For Adults Experiencing Homelessness In Arkansas
By Jeral Self, Kevin Callison, Anthony Goudie, Kanna Lewis, and Joseph Thompson
Jeral Self and coauthors examine health care use among an adult population who identified as homeless in Arkansas after the state expanded Medicaid. Gaining coverage is associated with initial spikes in emergency department use and inpatient hospitalizations followed by steady decreases in the following year to preexpansion utilization levels or below.
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Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Jeral Self, a researcher at Mathematica and an adjunct faculty member at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, on how Medicaid expansion affected health care utilization for adults experiencing homelessness in Arkansas.
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A CLOSER LOOK—Health Care Policy In The 2018 Midterms
After President-Elect Biden is inaugurated tomorrow, the Democratic Party will have control of the presidency and both chambers of Congress, a position the Republicans were in four years prior. As Democrats campaigned in 2018 to flip as many congressional seats as possible, health care was a central message. When Democrats gained a majority in the House, it had significant policy implications. Check out a 2018 blog post by Billy
Wynne to revisit his predictions about which health care issues would come to the fore of the federal agenda in the following years.
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About Health Affairs
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