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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 >>
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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. Read More >>
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About Health Affairs
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Update.
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