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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs

Monday, December 13, 2021

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In her most recent Eye On Health Reform column, Katie Keith updates
readers about the Build Back Better (BBB) Act and the 2022 open
enrollment period.

House Advances Build Back Better Act

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In an ahead-of-print Eye On Health Reform column

published today, Katie Keith updates readers on the range of policies in
the House-passed Build Back Better Act that would augment the Affordable
Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid. She also covers early data from the ACA
Marketplace open enrollment period, a Supreme Court lawsuit related to
Section 1557 of the ACA, states seeking waivers under Section 1332, and
Georgia's approved waiver to restructure its individual insurance
market.

In a paper in the December issue, Michael Chernew and coauthors examined
the apparent health deterioration

in the population of Medicare beneficiaries served by accountable care
organizations (ACOs). By investigating a sample of ACOs, the authors
found a growing gap between claims-based and survey-based measures of
health status among ACO enrollees, suggesting that coding practices are
behind rising risk scores.

"The growth of population-based payment models has heightened the
importance of effective risk adjustment," they concluded.

Today on Health Affairs Blog, Aimee Moulin and Elizabeth Keating discuss
how California's CA Bridge program

provides a model for expanding treatment for opioid use disorder in an
emergency department setting.

Christopher Whaley argues that the lack of information on health care
prices

limits not only the ability of patients and purchasers to make informed
decisions, but also the ability of policy makers to design policies that
address health care costs and affordability.

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