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Friday, March 11, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Dear John,

Health Affairs is accepting applications to the Health Affairs Podcast Fellowship program. This program is an opportunity for US-based applicants who are in the early or mid-early stages of their career.

Listen to the Pathways podcast to see what the latest cohort of Health Policy Fellows produced.
Opioids
Two articles in the new issue of Health Affairs discuss opioid use.

Amol Navathe and coauthors examine whether peer comparison feedback, individual audit feedback, or both, were effective relative to usual care in reducing opioid prescribing in acute care settings.

The authors found peer comparison feedback, alone and combined with individual audit feedback, significantly reduced the number of pills and morphine milligram equivalents per opioid prescription.

Analyzing referrals of hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) from a Boston, Massachusetts, safety-net hospital to postacute care, Simeon Kimmel and coauthors determine that more than eight in ten referrals are rejected.

"Referrals associated with OUD had more than double the odds of rejection compared with referrals not associated with an OUD diagnosis when adjusting for clinical and demographic confounders," they conclude.
Read The March Issue
Elsewhere At Health Affairs
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Alexis Drutchas and coauthors argue Medicare should institute hospice policies that augment reimbursement for in-home caregiver support.
Mike Chernew On Payment Reform: From Direct Contracting To ACO REACH

Listen to Health Affairs' Chris Fleming talk with Harvard Medical School's Michael Chernew on the new direct contracting model for Medicare accountable care organizations, and where Medicare Advantage could improve.
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