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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Monday, November 25, 2019**

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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS-Rural Health

Wednesday, December 4, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Eastern
National Press Club - 529 14th Street NW, Washington DC (Metro Center)
Registration Open

The December 2019 issue of Health Affairs explores various dimensions of
health and health care in rural America. Authors examine the health
needs of people living in rural areas, investigate inequities in the
availability, accessibility, and financing of care, and identify
policies, financing mechanisms, and practices that can improve the
health and well-being of rural Americans. View Speaker List

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

PHARMACEUTICALS AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Payer Funding Of Interventional Pharmacoeconomic Studies: A New Paradigm

By Daniel A. Goldstein, Allen S. Lichter, and Mark J. Ratain

We believe that the most efficient strategy to unlock this potential is
to create a global consortium of health care payers to run
interventional pharmacoeconomic studies.
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PAYMENT

Surprise Bills, Benchmarks, And The Problem Of Indexation

By Daniel P. O'Neill

Policy makers should be working to bring prices down, not mandating
further increases for a few highly compensated services, through rigid,
statutory indexation.
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SYSTEMS OF CARE

Consolidation And Health Systems In 2018: New Data From The AHRQ
Compendium

By Michael Furukawa, Laura Kimmey, David J. Jones, Rachel M. Machta,
Jing Guo, and Eugene Rich

Updating prior work, we examine new data from the AHRQ Compendium of
U.S. Health Systems, the first publicly available database depicting
attributes of the nation's health systems. This analysis describes the
landscape of health systems in 2018 and reports variation by system
size, ownership type, and geographic scope. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

ETHICS

Potential Unintended Consequences Of Recent Shared Decision Making
Policy Initiatives

By Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Douglas J. Opel, Neal W. Dickert, Daniel
B. Kramer, Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, Keren Ladin, Monica E. Peek, Jeff
Peppercorn, and Jon Tilburt

Shared decision making (SDM)-when clinicians and patients make medical
decisions together-is moving swiftly from an ethical ideal toward
widespread clinical implementation affecting millions of patients.
Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and coauthors argue that policy initiatives to
promote SDM implementation in clinical practice carry the risk of
several unintended negative consequences if limitations in defining and
measuring SDM are not addressed. Read More >>

QUALITY OF CARE

Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program Is Not Associated With
Additional Patient Safety Improvement

By Kyle H. Sheetz, Justin B. Dimick, Michael J. Englesbe, and Andrew M.
Ryan

In 2013 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it
would begin levying penalties against hospitals with the highest rates
of hospital-acquired conditions through the Hospital-Acquired Condition
Reduction Program. Kyle Sheetz and coauthors used clinical registry data
on rates of hospital-acquired conditions in 2010-18 from a large
surgical collaborative in Michigan to estimate the impact of the policy.
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