The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Dear John,
An August article in Health Affairs examines opioid use disorder treatment in correctional facilities in Rhode Island and related Medicaid costs.
Medicaid Costs For OUD Treatment
Benjamin Howell and coauthors studied the implementation of Rhode Island’s first-in-the-nation statewide prison and jail opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment program, which began in 2016.
States have identified correctional facilities as key intervention points to limiting overdose. At the same time, the cost of state health spending related to treatment programs after release from correctional systems is not well understood.
Using Rhode Island as a case study, the authors observed no statistically significant difference when comparing per person, per year Medicaid costs for people before they participated in the program to such costs after they were released from prison or jail.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Inam Sakinah writes that physicians have a largely untapped capacity to serve as effective political advocates for policies that put medical and public health science first.
Katie Keith summarizes recent developments on Section 1332 waivers, including federal approval to extend Colorado’s waiver and pending waiver-related requests in other states; a new data brief on state-based reinsurance programs; and 2020 user-fee data.
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With Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services Administrator
Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, at a Health Affairs speaker event from August 12, 2021.
The Health Equity Fellowship for Traineesis part of Health Affairs’ national initiative to advance racial equity in health policy and health services scholarly publishing. Its objective is to value and increase the quality and quantity of equity-related research published in Health Affairs that isauthored by members of racial and ethnic groups that have historically been underrepresented in scholarly publishing.
In the program, fellows will receive multilayered mentorship from experienced Health Affairs authors and editorial staff for one year (from January 2022 to December 2022). Mentors will work with fellows to make fellows’ manuscript submissions more likely to be accepted by the journal or another journal within the fellowship year. Manuscript submissions must be related to racial equity.
The application period closes on September 13, 2021.
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