Wednesday, January 5, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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The January 2022 issue includes the new annual national health expenditures report and insights around price regulation.
Health Spending
Published in the January issue of Health Affairs, the federal government’s annual national health expenditures report, by Micah Hartman and colleagues, revealed a nearly 10 percent increase in health spending in 2020 due almost entirely to growing federal expenditures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Programs such as the Paycheck Protection Program and the Provider Relief Fund increased federal expenditures, and there was increased public health spending and strong growth in federal Medicaid payments.
In an article in our series of Policy Insights, Robert Berenson and Robert Murray made the case thatprice regulation can serve to increase competition in health care in the domains that matter most to patients.
“Out-of-network caps should reduce hospitals’ overall negotiating leverage, exerting downward pressure on in-network negotiated rates,” they theorized.
Berenson and Murray will join Michael Chernew and Health Affairs Senior Editor Laura Tollen for a discussion about price regulation at an upcoming Health Affairs Lunch and Learn on January 20, 2022, at 1 p.m. ET.
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Bazi Kanani argues that distribution of the recently approved malaria vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa should include trusted messengers and local community partners.
Carl Coleman argues that courts are unlikely to look favorably on license revocations based on statements a physician makes in a nonclinical context.
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