The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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