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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs

Monday, July 15, 2019
TODAY ON THE BLOG

PAYMENT

Successfully Splitting The Baby: Design Considerations For Federal Balance Billing Legislation
By Sabrina Corlette, Jack Hoadley, and Kevin Lucia

As congressional leaders craft balance billing protections that can gain support—or at least the absence of opposition—from health industry stakeholders, some state legislatures have charted potential paths forward. Read More >>


V-BID X: Creating A Value-Based Insurance Design Plan For The Exchange Market
By Haley Richardson, Michael Budros, MPP Michael Chernew, and A. Mark Fendrick

Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID), which aligns patients’ out-of-pocket costs with the value of services, offers a route to mitigating the negative impacts of increased cost sharing, namely the underutilization of evidence-based, high-value care. Read More >>
IN THE JOURNAL

DISPARITIES

The Role Of Social Risk Factors In Dialysis Facility Ratings And Penalties Under A Medicare Quality Incentive Program
By Andrew C. Qi, Anne M. Butler, and Karen E. Joynt Maddox

Andrew Qi and coauthors find that dialysis facilities in low-income areas and with high proportions of patients who are black or dually eligible for Medicaid performed worse and were penalized more under the End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program.
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Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Care Following The New York State Sepsis Initiative
By Keith Corl, Mitchell Levy, Gary Phillips, Kathleen Terry, Marcus Friedrich, and Amal N. Trivedi

In 2013 New York State undertook a major initiative that required hospitals to adopt an evidence-based protocol for sepsis care. Keith Corl and coauthors find overall improvements in care and no evidence of racial disparities in treatment within hospitals. However, because hospitals primarily serving black patients had smaller improvements, the initiative widened the sepsis care quality gap between blacks and whites. Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Type 1 Diabetes

The Senate Special Committee on Aging recently held a hearing on type 1 diabetes and the Special Diabetes Program. A recent Health Affairs paper analyzed the health impacts of insurance coverage interruptions on individuals with type 1 diabetes.
 
 
 
 
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