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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Dear John,

Health Affairs has published results from the 2021 Kaiser Family
Foundation Employer Health Benefits Survey.

KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey Results

In an ahead-of-print article released today, Gary Claxton and coauthors
present findings from the twenty-third annual Kaiser Family Foundation
Employer Health Benefits Survey
.
The survey asked firms about eligibility for and enrollment in their
health benefits programs, as well as the characteristics of their
largest health plans.  

One of the biggest takeaways from this year's results: "Despite
pandemic uncertainties in the labor market and health care use, employer
health benefit programs have not experienced big changes."

In 2021 the average annual premium for single coverage for workers
covered by their own firms increased 4 percent, the same percentage
increase as in 2020. Also, preferred provider organization (PPO) plans
remained the most common plan type in 2021, with 46 percent of covered
workers enrolled in a PPO.

To the researchers' surprise, 2021 "saw a very large increase in the
share of small firms that said that their largest plan type was
level-funded, from 13 percent in 2020 to 42 percent this year."  

Read more about the findings from the 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation
Employer Health Benefits Survey here
.

Today on Health Affairs Blog, Michael Gluck discusses how health
technology assessment

intersects with major challenges facing US health care.

Mandar Bodas and coauthors discuss how states' use of American Rescue
Plan Act funds reflect the need to stabilize the direct care workforce

and the role of compensation in doing so.

In two recent ACA Round-Up posts, Katie Keith summarizes the latest
developments in pending ACA litigation
,
risk adjustment changes
,
premium credits, and more.

In a GrantWatch post, Kenneth Shatzkes and Karen Scott at a national
foundation describe how some of its grantees continue to work to
increase the number of clinicians prescribing buprenorphine, a
lifesaving treatment

for opioid use disorder.

Lori Frank and Thomas Concannon discuss the opportunity to address
health technology assessments' White medical culture

with a more diverse and inclusionary involvement of patients.

Elevating Voices: Native American Heritage Month: A 2021 Leading To
Health column highlighted the University of North Dakota, which launched
the country's first Ph.D. program in Indigenous health

in 2020-the latest in a long line of efforts to increase American
Indian representation in health care.

In the piece, Siobhan Wescott, the program's assistant director, says,
"It's clear from the numbers that the pathways to medicine aren't
serving our population."

Health Affairs Today will be dark for Veterans Day tomorrow but back in
your inbox on Friday.

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Your Daily Digest

Health Benefits In 2021: Employer Programs Evolving In Response To The
COVID-19 Pandemic

Gary Claxton et al.

Bolstering Our Ability To Value Health Technology: A Few Less-Considered
Issues

Michael E. Gluck

Will States Use 'Rescue Plan' Funding To Give Direct Care Workers A
Raise?

Mandar Bodas et al.

ACA Litigation Round-Up (11/9/21): What's Resolved, What's On Hold,
And What's Still Moving?

Katie Keith

ACA Round-Up (11/10/21): Risk Adjustment Changes, Premium Credits,
Section 1332, And More

Katie Keith

Expanding Access To Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder: Beyond "X-ing The
X-Waiver"

Kenneth Shatzkes and Karen A. Scott

Inclusion In Health Technology Assessments: The First Step Toward Equity

Lori Frank and Thomas W. Concannon

American Indians' Growing Presence In The Health Professions

Sarah Kwon

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Organization (BIO), for a discussion of current topics in
pharmaceuticals including, but not limited to, reducing barriers to
vaccines and other lifesaving technologies, and policy relating to
generics, patents, and prices.

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