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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs

June 27, 2021

Dear John,

Read on for highlights from Health Affairs this week.

What's New In Health Affairs

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The July 2021 issue of Health Affairs will focus on borders, immigrants,
and health. In an ahead-of-print paper released this week, Keith Gennuso
and colleagues calculated life expectancy for counties on the US side of
the US-Mexico border. They found large gaps in life expectancy by race
and ethnicity
.

Compared with traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage was associated
with "higher use of preventive care visits, fewer hospital admissions,
fewer emergency department visits, shorter hospital and skilled nursing
facility lengths-of-stay, and lower health care spending."

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.

June's Narrative Matters essay recounts the stigma and shame one
mother faced after testing positive for COVID-19

shortly before giving birth. Listen to Sara Edmond read her essay on our
Narrative Matters podcast
.

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Featured This Week

Life Expectancy At The US-Mexico Border: Evidence Of Disparities By
Place, Race, And Ethnicity

Keith P. Gennuso et al.

Podcast: Timing Out-Of-Pocket Spending In Health Care Is Challenging

Alan Weil, Stacie Dusetzina, and Michal Horný

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

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

As A Mother With COVID-19, I Faced Stigma And Shame

Sara N. Edmond

Podcast: As A Mother With COVID-19, I Faced Stigma And Shame

Sara N. Edmond

Podcast: Unpacking Apple's Health Care Efforts And Digital Health's
Overall Maturity

Jeff Byers and Brian Dolan

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Timing Out-Of-Pocket Spending In Health Care Is Challenging

Listen to

**Health Affairs** Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Stacie Dusetzina
from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Michal Horný from
Emory University on out-of-pocket health care spending.

Listen Here

 

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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 join

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**Health 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.

Register Here

On The Blog This Week

Addressing Mental Illness Requires Workplace Policy As Well As Health
Care Policy

Amanda Goorin et al.

Medicare's Discriminatory Coverage Policies For Substance Use
Disorders

Deborah Steinberg et al.

As They Take On Food Insecurity, Community-Based Health Care
Organizations Have Found Four Strategies That Work

Jacob P. Tanumihardjo et al.

Ballot Initiatives Have Brought Medicaid Eligibility To Many But Cannot
Solve The Coverage Gap

Erin Brantley and Sara Rosenbaum

Biden And Democrats Propose National Paid Leave

Steven Findlay

How A Public Option Could Hold Down Costs

Ken Terry

Reform Medicare Part B To Improve Affordability And Equity

Rena M. Conti et al.

How Two Funders Collaborated To Address Challenges In The Safety Net And
Rural Health Care

Shao-Chee Sim and Andrea Ducas

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Unpacking Apple's Health Care Efforts And Digital Health's Overall
Maturity

Listen to Health Affairs' Jeff Byers and Exits & Outcomes' Brian Dolan
discuss Apple's moves in health care and the overall maturity of the
digital health industry.

Listen Here

 

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