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

**Wednesday, February 17, 2021**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

NURSING HOMES

To Achieve Equitable Quality Of Care In Nursing Homes, Address Key
Workforce Challenges

By Jacqueline Lantsman, Milena Berhane, and James Hernandez

Pursuing these policy options would represent a step toward prioritizing
equity and centering the improvement of care for patients of color
disproportionately impacted by the dysfunction of the existing long-term
care system. Read More >>

COVID-19

COVID-19 Shows Now Is The Time To Integrate Care For Dual-Eligible
Beneficiaries

By Michael O. Leavitt

Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have taken
some steps to better integrate care for dual-eligible beneficiaries.
This progress is welcome, but compared to the need, much remains to be
done. Read More >>

MEDICAID

As The Biden Administration Begins Unwinding Them, Medicaid Work
Experiments Remain Unreasonable, Unnecessary, And Harmful

By Erin Brantley, Leighton Ku, Sara Rosenbaum, Morgan Handley, and
Rebecca Morris

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the Trump administration's
appeal in Azar v. Gresham and Philbrick v. Azar. Given recent Biden
administration actions, whether the cases will proceed is uncertain.
Should they move forward, the Court will consider whether the Department
of Health and Human Services is authorized to approve experiments that
compel work as a condition of Medicaid eligibility. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

EQUITY
         
Rural-Urban Disparities In All-Cause Mortality Among Low-Income Medicare
Beneficiaries, 2004-17

By Emefah Loccoh, Karen E. Joynt Maddox, Jiaman Xu, Changyu Shen, José
F. Figueroa, Dhruv S. Kazi, Robert W. Yeh, and Rishi K. Wadhera

Emefah Loccoh and coauthors analyze all-cause mortality rates for rural
and urban Medicare beneficiaries dually enrolled in Medicaid from 2004
to 2017. Read More >>

Racial Disparities In Excess All-Cause Mortality During The Early
COVID-19 Pandemic Varied Substantially Across States

By Maria Polyakova, Victoria Udalova, Geoffrey Kocks, Katie Genadek,
Keith Finlay, and Amy N. Finkelstein

All-cause mortality rates increased dramatically in 2020 because of
COVID-19. Learn what Maria Polyakova and coauthors found out about the
rates of excess mortality among Blacks versus Whites in April 2020 and
where racial and ethnic disparities were highest in the nation. Read
More >>

**ELEVATING VOICES: Black History Month**
In June 2020 Rhea Boyd and coauthors called for a new bar to be set for
publishing on racial health inequities. In celebration of Black History
Month, reread the seminal piece.

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