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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs

September 19, 2021

Dear John,

Read on for highlights from Health Affairs this week.

What's New In Health Affairs

In an ahead-of-print paper released this week, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
and colleagues, using death certificate data, characterized the
association of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage

with pre-2020 mortality, COVID-19 mortality, and 2020 excess mortality
in the state of Minnesota.

"In 2020 COVID-19 mortality rates and excess mortality rates in
Minnesota were substantially higher for BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People
of Color] living in the Metro region than for all other race-region
combinations," they found.

"White people, on average, had higher prepandemic mortality than BIPOC
in similar neighborhoods," they explained. However, "COVID-19 mortality
and excess mortality were substantially higher for Metro-area BIPOC than
for Metro-area White people living in similarly disadvantaged
neighborhoods," reflecting a notable increase in the racial disparity.

This week on Health Affairs Blog, Rachel Sachs discussed how the new
Biden administration drug pricing plan

and the Trump administration's May 2018 blueprint diverge in
identifying policy solutions.

And Katie Keith and coauthors discussed the No Surprises Act

protections, which go into effect on January 1, 2022.

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Featured This Week

COVID-19 Mortality At The Neighborhood Level: Racial And Ethnic
Inequalities Deepened In Minnesota In 2020

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field et al.

Podcast: Leemore Dafny on Hospital Prices, Markets, and Antitrust
Regulations

Alan Weil and Leemore Dafny

Podcast: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Paid Sick Leave, And The Economy

Leslie Erdelack and Ellen Bayer

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Leemore Dafny On Hospital Prices, Markets, And Antitrust Regulations

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Leemore Dafny from
Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School on hospital prices,
market concentration, and why market measurements are lacking.

Listen Here

On The Blog This Week

Telehealth Funding: Transforming Primary Care And Achieving Digital
Health Equity For Underresourced Populations

Christina Severin and Michael Curry

Biden Drug Pricing Plan Seeks To Balance Access And Innovation

Rachel Sachs

Seizing The Moment For Telehealth Policy And Equity

Sachin D. Shah et al.

Unpacking The Coverage Provisions In The House's Build Back Better Act

Katie Keith

Proposed Rule On No Surprises Act Focuses On Data Collection And
Enforcement

Katie Keith et al.

Why We Should Standardize Provider Cost Measurement

Merle Ederhof

Medicaid Best Price Volatility Could Inhibit Payment Innovation

Mark R. Trusheim et al.

Investing In A 21st Century Health Workforce: A Call For Accountability

Angela J. Beck et al.

CMS Updates Section 1332 Pass-Through Funding, Announces Marketplace
Grants

Katie Keith

Using Area-Level Measures To Account For Social Risk In Health Care
Payment

Anna M. Morenz and Joshua M. Liao

Babies With Syphilis: A Catastrophic Failure Of The US Health Care
System

Leandro Mena

How Access, Advocacy, and Innovation Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

Myechia Minter-Jordan and Wenyuan Shi

Confronting The Health Debt: The Impact Of COVID-19 On Chronic Disease
Prevention And Management

Liz Ruth et al.

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Margaret Laws and Danielle Ramo
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Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on racism and health, with an
emphasis on structural racism, to be published in February of 2022. We
plan to publish approximately 20 peer-reviewed articles-including
original research, analyses, commentaries, and Narrative Matters-from
a diverse group of researchers, scholars, community health leaders,
analysts, and health care stakeholders, among others.

We plan not only to inform discussion of the topic with the latest
scholarship, but also to consider forward-looking pieces to help shape
the future research and policy agenda.

In addition to publishing traditional content types such as research
papers and commentaries, we are thinking creatively about the theme
issue, how we put it together, what we include, and how we promote it.
We aim to be inclusive, including the voices of individuals with lived
experience as authors and peer reviewers.

We envision that the theme issue would include other novel elements such
as art, poetry, and multimedia components. As part of our commitment, we
will launch a video component alongside the research to set the
foundation of the issue, introduce an interactive element to the
research, and reach new audiences who do not currently read Health
Affairs.

We encourage interested applicants to respond to our Request For
Proposals, due October 1, 2021.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Paid Sick Leave, And The Economy

Listen to Health Affairs Senior Editors Ellen Bayer and Leslie Erdelack
go over President Joe Biden's latest plan out of the COVID-19 pandemic
and how paid sick leave can influence public health.

Listen Here

 

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