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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
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TODAY ON THE BLOG

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Hot-Spotting North Carolina’s Medicaid Transformation
By Kushal T. Kadakia, Shivani A. Shah, and Barak D. Richman

Meaningful health policies for rural America must focus on the needs of those Americans and the resource gaps that surround them. Read More >>


FOLLOWING THE ACA

Georgia Releases Broad 1332 Waiver Application
By Katie Keith

The application reflects a two-phase approach: a state-based reinsurance program to begin in plan year 2021, followed by a transition to the “Georgia Access” model beginning in plan year 2022. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTSPAST EVENT: 
LOS ANGELES BRIEFING ON VIOLENCE & HEALTH

The Los Angeles forum for the October Health Affairs issue, Violence & Health, explored the effects of exposure to violence, community responses to violence, and policy initiatives. Get caught up with the event:  slides (click on Download Event), video, and podcast.

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IN THE JOURNAL

COSTS & SPENDING

Financial Hardships Of Medicare Beneficiaries With Serious Illness
By Michael Anne Kyle, Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Melinda K. Abrams, and Eric C. Schneider

Medicare’s popularity stems from its universality and comprehensive benefits, but Michael Anne Kyle and coauthors explore the program’s limitations when it comes to people with serious illness. They find that 53 percent of Medicare beneficiaries with illnesses requiring recent hospitalizations or multiple physician visits report having a serious problem paying a medical bill. Read More >>
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CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Changes In The Equity Of US Health Care Financing In The Period 2005–16
By Paul D. Jacobs and Thomas M. Selden

Studies examining health care spending in the US have found regressive patterns of incidence, with total health-related spending as a share of income being higher for lower-income households than for higher-income households. Paul Jacobs and Thomas Selden look at how the distribution of household spending across income groups changed between 2005 and 2016. Read More >>

This study is part of the journal’s Considering Health Spending series.

A CLOSER LOOKAlternative Payment Models

The Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN) announced significant goals for the adoption of alternative payment models (APMs). In an April 2019 blog post, Mark McClellan, Mark Smith, and Thomas Buckingham described the LAN’s Roadmap for Driving High Performance in APMs, an interactive, web-based implementation guide that public and private payers can use to work with providers, purchasers, patients, consumers, and others.
 
 
 
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