The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
May 30, 2021
Dear John,
Don’t miss Alan Weil interviewing Liz Fowler, the new CMS deputy administrator, on Thursday as part of a new speaker series. Register here
today.
Read on for highlights from Health Affairs this week.
What's New In Health Affairs
In a new study, released ahead of print this week, Christopher Sun and coauthors evaluated emergency medical services (EMS) call data from the Boston area in the first few months of the pandemic to better understand patients’ reluctance to
call EMS for cardiac-related care.
The authors found that there was a substantial decrease in EMS calls and an increase in hospital transportation refusals despite a significant increase in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.
In the newest addition to our “Eye On Health Reform” series, Katie Keith covers the American
Rescue Plan Act, which temporarily expands the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits and increases federal financial incentives for holdout states to expand their Medicaid programs.
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted patients and providers to delay or cancel a substantial share of medical care in the past year. Kevin Callison and Jason Ward examined the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of patients who have been subject to these involuntary care disruptions.
The GrantWatch column in the May 2021 issue mentioned a broad sampling of foundations’ recent funding
in COVID-19 areas including vaccination, data collection and analysis, mental health, legal services, and more.
One-on-One with Elizabeth “Liz” Fowler
On Thursday, June 3, 2021, you are invited to joinHealth Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil when he welcomes Elizabeth “Liz” Fowler, the new deputy administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and director of its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations (CMMI),
for an in-depth discussion of the Biden administration’s plans and priorities for CMS and CMMI.
There will be an opportunity for viewers to contribute questions.
Date: Thursday, June 3, 2021 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT) Place:Online details will be shared with registrants 24 hours in advance of the event
Health Affairs is grateful to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund for their support of the special issue, “The Affordable Care Act Turns 10” (March 2020, Vol. 39, No. 3: 359-544), and this event.
Julia Adler-Milstein On Tracking The Evolution Of Health Information Exchange
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Julia Adler-Milstein from the University of California San Francisco on the evolution of health information exchange organizations and health data governance.
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