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A Weekly Health Policy Round Up From Health Affairs
October 6, 2019
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENT
VIOLENCE AND HEALTH
October 10, 2019
9:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern
W Hotel Washington – 515 15th Street NW Washington DC
Register Today
Order the Violence and Health issue
Violence permeates our society with consequences for victims, perpetrators, and communities. It reaches people of all ages and all walks of life. Even as media attention tends to focus on incidents of mass violence, it is the daily burden of violence in its many forms that takes
the greater toll.
The October 2019 issue of Health Affairs takes a comprehensive look at the issues at the intersection of violence and health with the following speakers:
- Catherine Barber on “Linking Public Safety And Public Health Data For Firearm Suicide Prevention In Utah”
- Colleen L. Barry on “Trends In Public Opinion On US Gun Laws: Majorities Of Gun Owners And Non-owners Support A Range Of Measures”
- Rebecca M. Cunningham on “Federal Funding For Research On The Leading Causes Of Death Among Children And Adolescents”
- Evan V. Goldstein on “Behavioral Health Care And Firearm Suicide: Do States With Greater Treatment Capacity Have Lower Suicide Rates?”
- Jason E. Goldstick on “US Firearm-Related Mortality: National, State, And Population Trends, 1999-2017”
- David C. Grossman on “Violence And The US Health System: Burden And Response”; Bernadette C. Hohl on “Creating Safe And Healthy Neighborhoods With Place-Based
Violence Interventions”
- Richard D. Krugman on “Narrative Matters: Ending Gaze Aversion Toward Child Abuse And Neglect”
- Brianna Mills on “The Effects Of Violence On Health”
- Rocco Pallin on “California Public Opinion On Health Professionals Talking With Patients About Firearms”
- Bernice A. Pescosolido on “Evolving Public Views On Mental Illness, Violence, Forced Treatment, And The Associated Stigma”
- Tony Rosen on “Violence In Older Adults: Scope, Impact, Challenges, And Strategies For Prevention”
- Nichole A. Smith on “Keeping Your Guard Up: Hypervigilance Among Urban Residents Affected By Community And Police Violence”
- Elizabeth Tung on “Social Isolation, Loneliness, And Violence Exposure In Urban Adults”
- Briana Woods-Jaeger on “Mitigating Negative Consequences Of Community Violence Exposure: Perspectives From African American Youth”
More About the Speakers
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THIS WEEK ON THE BLOG
FOLLOWING THE ACA
New Proposed Rule On HRAs And The Employer Mandate
By Katie Keith (10/1/19)
The proposed rule would establish a number of safe harbors related to a recent final rule to expand the use of health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) by employers. Under the final rule, employers can offer an HRA to fund premiums and out-of-pocket costs for their employees in the individual health insurance market and Medicare beginning on or after January 1, 2020. Read More >>
HHS Proposes New Wellness Demonstration Projects
By Katie Keith (10/1/19)
On September 30, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a bulletin outlining a new opportunity for 10 states to participate in a
wellness demonstration project in the individual market. HHS will begin accepting applications immediately, without an opportunity for public comment on its guidance or on state applications. Read More >>
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Interest In ‘Pathways To Success’ Grows: 2018 ACO Results Show Trends Supporting Program Redesign Continue
By Seema Verma (9/30/19)
CMS is continuing to closely monitor the Shared Savings Program. We are
excited to see growing interest, and we will continue to support health care providers on the front lines who are hard at work building new ways to deliver higher-quality care at lower cost. Patients are receiving better care as a result of these efforts, and we look forward to continuing on this journey. Read More >>PHARMACEUTICALS & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Lower Drug Costs Now
By Henry A. Waxman (10/4/19)
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 >>
MEDICAID
Looking Inside Tennessee’s Block Grant Proposal
By Sara Rosenbaum and Alexander Somodevilla (10/4/19)
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 >>
GLOBAL HEALTH
The Ebola Outbreak: The Need For US Action
By Ashish K. Jha (10/2/19)
It will take American leadership, working with our allies in Europe and Africa, to bring this disease to a close. One year and 2,000 deaths later, the time for more robust action is well overdue. Read More >>
PAYMENT
Where There’s A Will There’s A Way: Hospitals Push The Price Transparency Envelope
By Mark A. Zezza and David Sandman (10/3/19)
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adopters of price transparency recognize that the most frequent “pain points” for patients at hospitals involve their financial experiences, and they believe that patients who know the price ahead of time are more likely to pay. Read More >>
MARKETS
For Policy Makers Looking To Expand Coverage, Lessons From The Demise of the ACA’s Multi-State Plan Program
By Jonathan Foley, Kristi Martin, and Rob Shriver (9/30/19)
If policy makers wish to pursue a market-based solution to the country’s persistent coverage problems, they need to construct the program to attract market participation. Read More
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PATIENT-CENTERED CARE
Just Putting Patients At The Center Of Health Care Is Not Enough To Improve Care
By Megan Collado (10/3/19)
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 >>
PUBLIC HEALTH
A Winning Goal: Pay Equity In Public Health
By Chrissie Juliano (10/2/19)
As a society, and in governmental public health, we need to work to level the entire playing field to create and achieve more equitable outcomes. Read More >>
HEALTH EQUITY
From Emergencies To Equity: The Growing Role Of Hospitals In Community Health
By Jason Lacsamana, Sandra Viera, Katie Miller, and Sonja Lockhart (10/1/19)
The St. Joseph Health Community Partnership Fund has been working with Prevention Institute in seven California communities. The two organizations aim to support hospitals and their community partners in pursuing upstream
causes of, and solutions to, community-level health problems. It is critically important to address the root causes of health problems and eliminate health inequities, because clinical strategies alone won't lead to healthier outcomes. Read More >>
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HOSPITALS
Spending On Postacute Care After Hospitalization In Commercial Insurance And Medicare Around Age Sixty-Five
By Scott E.
Regenbogen, Anne H. Cain-Nielsen, John D. Syrjamaki, Lena M. Chen, and Edward C. Norton
Scott Regenbogen and coauthors explore how payment methods for postacute care affect spending. They compare privately insured adults ages 60–64 with Medicare-insured adults just a few years older after hospitalization for common medical and surgical conditions.
Read More >>
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 >>
DISPARITIES
Regional Differences In Coverage Among American Indians And Alaska Natives Before And After The ACA
By Leah Frerichs, Ronny Bell, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Daniel Reuland, and Donald Warne
Leah Frerichs and coauthors used American Community Survey data for the period 2010–17 to examine unadjusted trends in health insurance coverage among American Indians and Alaska Natives across ten US regions. Read More >>
GRANTWATCH
Funding To Improve Social Determinants Of Health
By Lee L. Prina
The GrantWatch column in the September 2019 issue
describes foundations’ funding addressing either of two social risk factors: food insecurity and inadequate housing. For example, the Common Market is “a regional food distributor [that] works to strengthen regional farms while making local produce available to underserved areas,” says the Kresge Foundation, which is among the funders that have recently supported this innovative model. And the Montana Healthcare Foundation is a funder interested in housing and health. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is well known for its funding to improve various social determinants. A number of other funders, including the Humana, Colorado Health, and Vitalyst Health Foundations, have awarded grants focused on one or more determinants. Read More >>
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