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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Tuesday, October 15, 2019**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Exploring The Relationship Between Social And Medical Service Spending

By Judith R. Peres and Gerard F. Anderson

International experience may encourage the US to remove the artificial
distinctions between medical and social services. Read More >>

PAYMENT

Proposed Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Reforms Aim To Facilitate Valued-Based
Care

By Billy Wynne, Katie Pahner, and Josh LaRosa

On Wednesday, October 9, the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) announced

highly anticipated proposed reforms to current regulations implementing
the Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark Law) and the Federal
Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). Read More >>

MEDICAID

Medicaid Policy And Partisan Politics: A New Dynamic

By Eliot Fishman and Joe Weissfeld

On September 18, 2019, Tennessee announced a long-anticipated proposal

to block grant its Medicaid program, TennCare. This proposal is deeply
flawed in ways that will both concern fiscal conservatives and endanger
Medicaid enrollees. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

VIOLENCE

Keeping Your Guard Up: Hypervigilance Among Urban Residents Affected By
Community And Police Violence

By Nichole A. Smith, Dexter R. Voisin, Joyce P. Yang, and Elizabeth L.
Tung

Nichole Smith and coauthors explore how exposure to violence relates to
being in a state of hypervigilance, which carries with it various
negative health consequences. Exposure to violence increases the odds of
hypervigilance, with exposure to police violence associated with an
almost 10-percentage-point increase. Read More >>

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Social Isolation, Loneliness, And Violence Exposure In Urban Adults

By Elizabeth L. Tung, Louise C. Hawkley, Kathleen A. Cagney, and Monica
E. Peek

Elizabeth Tung and coauthors find that exposure to neighborhood violence
increases social isolation and loneliness. Read More >>

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A CLOSER LOOK-DRUG PRICING

The Congressional Budget Office released a partial score of the House
Democrats' drug pricing bill and predicted $345 billion in savings
over a seven-year period. Rachel Sachs offered a close analysis
of
the bill last month on Health Affairs Blog.

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