The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Dear John, In observance of Juneteenth, the Health Affairs office will be closed tomorrow. Health Affairs Today will return to your inbox on Monday.
Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Care
Several June articles discuss racial/ethnic disparities.
In one, Barbara Andraka-Christou studied racial and ethnic disparities in the use of medication for
opioid use disorder. She notes that “buprenorphine treatment is largely
unavailable to people of color—the very people who could most benefit from its lower stigma.”
In another, Marissa Reitsma and coauthors analyzed community-level data on COVID-19 in California from 2020 and found that among cases with known race and ethnicity, 70 percent were among Latinos, compared with their 39.1 percent population share.
Also, David J. Meyers and colleagues examined growth in Medicare Advantage enrollment and found that from 2009 to 2018, Black beneficiaries, dual enrollees in Medicare and Medicaid, and residents of neighborhoods in the highest quintile of the Social Deprivation Index had the largest increases. In a book review, David Goldberg discusses Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease, by the medical historian Arleen Marcia Tuchman. The book probes the history of diabetes from the perspective of racial categorization and emphasizes the role of social determinants of health in racial disparities in diabetes rates.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, David Muhlestein and coauthors discuss growth trends of accountable care organizations and the continued movement toward value-based payment.
Watch Health Affairs Blog for analysis of today's Supreme Court decision in California v. Texasrejecting a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
Elevating Voices: Pride Month: In March 2018 Ana Progovac and coauthors published a paper in Health Affairs acknowledging progress made around recording gender identity information for patients, but noting that “many electronic health records still do not record
gender identity, despite the fact that 90 percent of patients say that they would share this information even in emergency settings.”
One-on-One with Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US
Department of Health and Human Services
On Thursday, July 1, 2021, you are invited to joinHealth Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil when he welcomes Micky Tripathi, the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).At HHS, Tripathi leads the formulation of the federal health IT strategy and coordinates federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments.
There will be an opportunity for viewers to contribute questions.
Date: Thursday, July 1, 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.
Peering Into The MedPAC Crystal Ball For The Future Of Medicare Payments
Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Jessica Bylander discuss the recent Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act and the latest report from MedPAC.
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