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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 >>
HEALTH AFFAIRS ANNOUNCEMENT

Culture Of Health Article Clusters

FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE: Role Of Health Systems In Addressing Social Determinants Of Health And Improving Population Health
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JULY 2020 ISSUE: Policies that Promote Health and Well-Being
Submissions due February 3, 2020

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Affairs plans to continue its series on the Culture of Heath with two clusters of articles in 2020. Our previous coverage of this topic includes a November 2016 theme issue, and clusters in January 2018, April 2018, May 2019, and September 2019.

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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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