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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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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 JOURNALEQUITY 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 >>
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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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