The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Dear John,
A study in the June issue describes trends in Medicare Advantage enrollment growth.
Growth Trends In Medicare
Advantage
For a DataWatch article in the June issue, David Meyers and colleagues examined growth in Medicare Advantage enrollment during expansion of
the program from 2009 to 2018.
They found that Black and Hispanic beneficiaries, dual enrollees in Medicare and Medicaid, and residents of areas with the highest level of neighborhood disadvantage saw the largest increases in enrollment.
They also found that enrollees from racial/ethnic minority groups were heavily concentrated in specific plans, whereas White enrollees were more broadly distributed across plans. Further, Hispanic enrollees tended to select plans with lower premiums. Today on Health Affairs Blog, James Chambers and coauthors discuss how Medicare should respond to the FDA's recent decision on aducanumab and propose a "coverage with evidence development" option for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Elevating Voices: Pride Month: On the final day of Pride
Month, we look back at a recent Health Affairs Blog post by Katie Keith in which she discusses the Department of Health and Human Services' announcement that it will interpret Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender
identity by federally funded or federally administered health care programs or activities.
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Just added: David Blumenthal joins Micky Tripathi for tomorrow’s Policy Spotlight
We are very pleased to announce that David Blumenthal, president of The Commonwealth Fund, will join Micky Tripathi, the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for tomorrow’s "Policy Spotlight" conversation. Blumenthal, who formerly served as Health IT Coordinator for President Obama, steps in for Health Affairs editor-in-chief Alan Weil.
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