Medicare Beneficiaries With Disabilities Face Barriers To Care
Despite making up 15.2 percent of the Medicare population and 20.5 percent of program expenditures, Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities face disproportionate challenges in accessing care.
Kenton Johnston and coauthors assessed differences in realized access to ambulatory versus acute care. They found that beneficiaries with disabilities have greater difficulty accessing ambulatory care and lower rates of actual evaluation and management visits than their nondisabled peers.
Please welcome our first Podcast Fellowship cohort. Three groups of fellows were chosen to participate in our inaugural Podcast Fellowship.
Lalita Abhyankarwill explore the issues and challenges independent primary care practices face today
Sania Ali and Avni Kulkarniwill
unpack emergency department boarding with a focus on mental health
Jared Downingwill dive into
health policy and climate change
The fellows will work over the summer and fall to produce a podcast season, which we anticipate to air in late 2021 or early 2022. We are very excited to hear and share their stories.
Today on Health Affairs Blog,Katie Keith explains the Supreme Court’s conclusion that the plaintiffs in the most recent major challenge to the Affordable Care Act, California v. Texas, did not have standing to bring the case.
Also, Amanda Goorin and coauthors discuss how a combination of clinical, workplace, and policy interventions could help
people with moderate mental illnesses participate fully in the workforce. Elevating Voices: Pride Month: In a 2017 blog, Tara McKay and Gilbert Gonzales argue, "All researchers who engage in original data collection have immense power to include sexual orientation and gender identity measures in their work as standard practice."
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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.
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