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A Weekly Health Policy Round Up From Health Affairs            

**October 20, 2019**

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENT-LOS ANGELES BRIEFING: VIOLENCE & HEALTH

THIS WEEK! October 23, 2019 at 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific (Breakfast
served at 8:30)
Town & Gown Ballroom, USC Campus - 665 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles,
CA 90089
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Health Affairs issue. View Table of Contents

The forum will feature authors from a select group of studies contained
in the issue, as well as community leaders, policy makers and residents
who are developing and deploying strategies for combating violence in
their daily lives. View Speakers

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THIS WEEK ON THE BLOG

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Court Vacates Parts Of ACA Nondiscrimination Rule

By Katie Keith (10/16/19)

On October 15, 2019, Judge Reed O'Connor, a federal district court
judge in Texas, issued a long-awaited ruling in Franciscan Alliance v.
Azar. Judge O'Connor vacated parts of an Obama-era nondiscrimination
rule that explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity
and termination of pregnancy. Read More >>

MARKETS

Are Air Ambulances Truly Flying Out Of Reach? Surprise-Billing Policy
And The Airline Deregulation Act

By Karan Chhabra, Kevin A. Schulman, and Barak D. Richman

Courts need to pay greater attention to the dynamics of the air
ambulance industry, the purposes of the laws they are undermining, and
the central thrust of the Airline Deregulation Act. Read More >>

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Exploring The Relationship Between Social And Medical Service Spending

By Judith R. Peres and Gerard F. Anderson (10/15/19)

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 (10/15/19)

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 (10/15/19)

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 >>

SYSTEMS OF CARE

It's Time For The Health Care System To Reckon With The Human Costs Of
Climate Change

By Dhruv Shankar and Sofia Ahsanuddin

Public reporting of greenhouse gas emissions data, even if limited
initially to a few organizations, would mark an important first step
toward greater transparency and environmental stewardship in the health
care industry. Read More >>

PUBLIC HEALTH

Five Victories For Public Health: Courts Enjoin The Public Charge Rule

By Wendy E. Parmet

Shortly before it was set to take effect last Tuesday, five federal
districts courts, sitting in Washington, California, Baltimore, Cook
County, and New York City, issued preliminary injunctions against the
Trump administration's new public charge rule, halting at least for
now a rule that was widely expected to reduce immigrants' access to
health care, place new burdens on safety-net providers, and jeopardize
public health, especially in immigrant communities. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

AHEAD OF PRINT: CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Changes In The Equity Of US Health Care Financing In The Period
2005-16

By Paul D. Jacobs and Thomas M. Selden

Studies examining health care spending in the US have found regressive
patterns of incidence, with total health-related spending as a share of
income being higher for lower-income households than for higher-income
households. This new study, being released ahead of print by Health
Affairs, looks at how the distribution of household spending across
income groups changed between 2005 and 2016. Read More >>

This study, part of the journal's Considering Health Spending
series, will also appear
in Health Affairs' November issue.

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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 >>

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 >>

Violence In Older Adults: Scope, Impact, Challenges, And Strategies For
Prevention

By Tony Rosen, Lena K. Makaroun, Yeates Conwell, and Marian Betz

Although often perceived to be a problem of the young, violence commonly
affects older adults, a rapidly growing segment of the population. Tony
Rosen and coauthors focus on violence as it relates to older adults.
Read More >>

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NARRATIVE MATTERS

Ending Gaze Aversion Toward Child Abuse And Neglect

By Richard D. Krugman

For more than fifty years, not enough has been done to tackle the
national problems of child abuse and neglect. Read More >>

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