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Thursday, June 24, 2021

Dear John,

**** A June paper in our Considering Health Spending
series discusses soft
consolidation in Medicare accountable care organizations.

Soft Consolidation In Medicare ACOs Can Increase Prices

Antitrust enforcement focuses on provider consolidation because of the
risk of price increases. In a new Considering Health Spending
paper, Peter Lyu and
colleagues found evidence that accountable care organization (ACO)
contracting

without a merger or acquisition can still yield price increases.

Data from 2010 through 2016 showed that "practices joining system-led
ACOs differentially received 4 percent higher prices by the late post
period, largely driven by 7.4 percent of treatment practices receiving a
49.3 percent average price increase."

For all past Considering Health Spending content, visit our website
.

Today on Health Affairs Blog, Steven Findlay discusses how the pandemic
dramatically underscored the need for paid leave

and its increasingly bipartisan support.

Ken Terry argues that a public option plan could cut health spending

to the level of inflation or even reverse cost growth.

Elevating Voices: Pride Month: In June 2018 Michael Ulrich and Julia
Raifman penned a Health Affairs Blog post about how religious refusal
laws are harming sexual minorities
.
"LGBT populations can still be fired from their jobs or denied housing
in most states-both of which can have a direct impact on people's
health," they explain.

Check out our COVID-19 Resource Center
for free
content about all things related to the pandemic.

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**Date:   Thursday, July 1, 2021**

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Affordable Care Act Turns 10
" (March 2020, Vol.
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Your Daily Digest

Soft Consolidation In Medicare ACOs: Potential For Higher Prices Without
Mergers Or Acquisitions

Peter F. Lyu, Michael E. Chernew, and J. Michael McWilliams

Biden And Democrats Propose National Paid Leave

Steven Findlay

How A Public Option Could Hold Down Costs

Ken Terry

How Religious Refusal Laws Are Harming Sexual Minorities

Michael R. Ulrich and Julia R. Raifman

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