Today, we hosted a Health Affairs Journal Club event which featured a paper from this month’s issue about the effects of Medicaid expansion in Louisiana.

Dimitris Karletsos and Charles Stoecker examined changes in geographic proximity of Medicaid enrollees to providers in the wake of Louisiana’s 2016 Medicaid expansion.

They found that distance traveled by Medicaid beneficiaries decreased across all eight types of services examined; the greatest declines were seen among Black beneficiaries living in nonmetropolitan areas who sought general practice care.

"The fact that the policy had a stronger effect on the Black population has important public health implications, given that members of racial and ethnic minority groups are consistently found to face longer travel times to obtain health care services," wrote Karletsos and Stoecker.

Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Shao-Chee Sim and coauthors discuss how Texas has a major opportunity to build a robust community health improvement orientation into managed care.

Meena Seshamani, Elizabeth Fowler, and Chiquita Brooks-LaSure of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) discuss their goals for Medicare and CMS.

Katie Keith discusses new guidance outlining how insurers and group health plans will be required to cover and reimburse enrollees for up to eight at-home tests for COVID-19 per enrollee per 30-day period.

Alan Weil, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, discusses how starting this month, Health Affairs will require authors and reviewers to respond to questions about their race, ethnicity, and gender in a continued effort to increase equitable participation among individuals who engage with the journal.

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