We are pleased to share our January schedule of free virtual events designed to showcase exciting thinkers, policy makers and policies; drill deeper into our signature
content; and hone the skills of a new generation of health policy researchers and aficionados.
Kick off the New Year with Health Affairs at these January events:
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET Lunch and Learn: "National Health Care Spending In 2020: Growth Driven By Federal Spending In Response To The COVID-19 Pandemic"
On December 15, Health Affairs published ahead-of-print, "National Health Care Spending In 2020: Growth Driven By Federal Spending In Response To The COVID-19 Pandemic," the annual national health expenditures article prepared by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary. Always one of Health Affairs’ most-read articles, this year’s provides the first official report on spending that reflects the effects of COVID-19. The article will appear in the January 2022 issue of the journal.
On Wednesday, January 5, you are invited to join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for a discussion of the findings with economists Sherry Glied, Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, and Craig Garthwaite, the Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services Management and Director of Healthcare at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET Journal Club: "Louisiana
Medicaid Expansion Associated With Reduced Travel For Care Among Minorities And Rural Residents" by Charles Stoecker and Dimitris Karletsos
The centerpiece of the January Health Affairs Journal Club meeting is "Louisiana Medicaid Expansion Associated With Reduced Travel For Care Among Minorities And Rural Residents." In the paper, to appear in the January 2022 issue of the journal, the authors examine how Medicaid expansion has the potential to address racial and geographic disparities in health care access through decreased travel distances.
Please join Charles Stoecker, an associate professor and the JP Morgan Chase Chair in Healthcare Finance, and Dimitris Karletsos, PhD candidate, both in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, on January 11 for a detailed discussion of the paper’s data, methods, and conclusions. Health Affairs Associate Editor Marianne Amoss will host.
Thursday, January 20, 2022 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET Health Affairs Lunch and Learn: Considering Health Spending: Is It Time to Regulate Health Care Prices?
Register today for this January 20th event when Health Affairs Senior Editor Laura Tollen hosts a panel of experts discussing why they believe there is a need for regulation of
at least some health care prices – and how to do it. Robert Berenson, Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, and Robert Murray, President of Global Health Payment, LLC, and past executive director of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission,will discuss their forthcoming Health Affairs paper, "How Price Regulation Is Needed To Advance Market Competition."
Additional perspectives will be shared by Michael E. Chernew, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. Audience members will have an opportunity to share thoughts and questions for the panelists.
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