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

**Friday, October 4, 2019**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICAID

Looking Inside Tennessee's Block Grant Proposal

By Sara Rosenbaum and Alexander Somodevilla

It is fundamentally impossible to understand how such an experiment
could be found to advance the core purpose of the Medicaid program given
its potential to exact significant harm on eligibility, enrollment,
coverage, and access to care. Read More >>

PHARMACEUTICALS & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Lower Drug Costs Now

By Henry A. Waxman

The pharmaceutical marketplace in the US is broken when it comes to
brand-name drugs with long monopoly protection, and it's time we fix
it. Read More >>

PATIENT-CENTERED CARE

Just Putting Patients At The Center Of Health Care Is Not Enough To
Improve Care

By Megan Collado

AcademyHealth and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) held a May
2019 conference to discuss what is impeding the health care system from
delivering patient-centered care. Attendees discussed four major
barriers outlined in a report by Anna Sinaiko and colleagues. And what
do patients think is standing in the way of delivering patient-centered
care? Two patients express some interesting viewpoints. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

HOSPITALS

The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services Hospital Ratings:
Pitfalls Of Grading On A Single Curve

By Jeanette W. Chung, Allison R. Dahlke, Cynthia Barnard, John O.
DeLancey, Ryan P. Merkow, and Karl Y. Bilimoria

Without mandating measure sets for reporting, how can profilers identify
hospital peer groups based on the measures they report so that
comparisons are made among hospitals that take the same (or similar)
tests? Jeanette Chung and coauthors addressed this question by exploring
a simple approach that segments hospitals in the star ratings program
into groups of hospitals that took similar tests-that is, reported
similar measures, numbers of measures, and denominators. Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Vaping

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intensified its warnings
about the risks of vaping, as the number of patients with vaping-related
illness continues to climb. The case count has reached 1,080, the agency
announced yesterday. A recent Health Affairs Blog post considers
potential regulatory action to protect public health
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