Podcast: Medical Debt Changes And Health Impacts
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Friday, March 25, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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On March 28, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will interview Carole Johnson, the Administrator for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), for the next installment of Health Affairs’ Policy Spotlight series. Register now.
Opioid Use Disorder
Two articles in the March 2021 issue discuss opioids.

Simeon Kimmel and coauthors analyze referrals of hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) from a Boston, Massachusetts, safety-net hospital to postacute care. They 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.

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.

Peer comparison feedback, alone and combined with individual audit feedback, significantly reduced the number of pills and morphine milligram equivalents per opioid prescription.
Elsewhere At Health Affairs
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Farah Kader and coauthors discuss the data quality issues in health equity research.

The authors state that misclassification of race and ethnicity, as well as data incompleteness, can pose challenges to researchers; the authors provide guidance on improving data collection practices.
Medical Debt Changes And Health Impacts

Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Chris Fleming discuss recent changes from three credit reporting agencies regarding medical collection debt reporting and the potential impact of the changes on health.
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