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
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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