Wednesday, January 5,
2022 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Health Affairs 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.
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