Monday, April 25, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Dear John, Join Health Affairs for aLunch and Learn tomorrow at 1:00 PM EDT about a study in the April 2022 issue, “Health-Related Social Needs Among Older Adults Enrolled In Medicare Advantage (MA).”
In the April issue of Health Affairs, José Figueroa and colleagues examine the association of HIV with health care spending and use among Medicare beneficiaries using 2016 Medicare claims data.
They report that Medicare enrollees
with HIV who are receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) spend more than twice as much on medical care as Medicare enrollees without HIV.
Higher costs are largely due to the cost of the ART drugs themselves.
“As the number of months with filled ART prescriptions increased among patients with HIV, the absolute differences in spending related to treatment of mental health and other medical chronic conditions narrowed relative to beneficiaries without HIV,” the authors write.
In Health Affairs Forefront, Katherine Gudiksen and coauthors discuss how taxation can be used as a policy tool to reduce the harm of excessive prices for health care.
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