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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Dear John,

Tomorrow, don't miss Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviewing Liz
Fowler, the new CMS deputy administrator and director, as part of a new
speaker series. Register here.

Vertical Integration Increased Lab Tests & Imaging Services

A May paper in our Considering Health Spending series
investigates spending on
imaging and lab services after primary care physician group vertical
integration. Christopher Whaley and coauthors found that vertical
integration increases the use of hospitals for common diagnostic imaging
and laboratory tests
.

Our Considering Health Spending series provides a focal point for
analysis and discussion about how much the nation spends on health care,
what we get for our money, and how we might change the spending
trajectory.

The initiative includes a series of journal articles
,
Health Affairs Blog posts
, and
the Council On Health Care Spending and Value
,
chaired by former Senate Majority Leader William Frist and former FDA
Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.

Visit our website for
all of our Considering Health Spending content.

Today on Health Affairs Blog, Junaid Nabi and Robert Kaplan argue that
achieving CMS's value-based objective of performing the right surgery in
the right location requires changes in payment policy
.
Also, Giselle Appel and coauthors argue that it's time to make fentanyl
test strips widely available

to prevent overdoses.

Elevating Voices: Pride Month: In October 2018 Timothy Jost wrote in the
Eye On Health Reform series about federal district court rulings in
Minnesota and Wisconsin that held up the Affordable Care Act's
nondiscrimination provision, which prohibits discrimination against
transgender individuals

in the coverage of health services.

Your Daily Digest

Higher Medicare Spending On Imaging And Lab Services After Primary Care
Physician Group Vertical Integration

Christopher M. Whaley et al.

The CMS New Rule On Ambulatory Surgical Centers Earns Only Partial
Credit

Junaid Nabi and Robert S. Kaplan

Fentanyl Test Strips Empower People And Save Lives-So Why Aren't
They More Widespread?

Giselle Appel et al.

An Autumn Docket Heavy On Health Policy

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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One-on-One with Elizabeth "Liz" Fowler

On

**Thursday, June 3, 2021**, you are invited to join

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**Health Affairs** Editor-in-Chief

**Alan Weil** when he welcomes

**Elizabeth "Liz" Fowler**, the new deputy administrator of the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and director of its Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center (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.

Register Here

 

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