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Sunday, May 8, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From
Health Affairs
Dear John,
Health Affairs is hiring full-time, paid summer interns
to join the digital and equity
teams. Applications are due May 12.
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Pandemic-Era Nutrition Assistance
For a new Health Policy Brief
released earlier this week, Caitlin Caspi and coauthors examine the
impacts and sustainability of pandemic-era nutrition assistance programs
and policies.
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a far-reaching federal policy response
that likely mitigated an increase in food insecurity in the aggregate US
population, the authors write.
The brief describes efforts like the Families First Coronavirus Response
Act of 2020 and other legislation which allowed the USDA to expand
program eligibility and develop new programs offering novel experiments
in nutritional assistance without compromising safe social distancing.
However, despite these programs, alarming disparities in food insecurity
emerged early in the pandemic and have persisted, with higher rates
among Black and Latinx households compared with White and Asian
households.
Many of the federal policies passed in response are ending, even though
COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the population and the economic
recovery is uneven.
"A longer-term extension of many COVID-19 policy supports until the
next Farm Bill is adopted would offer stability until discussions can
occur around which changes should be made permanent," Caspi and
coauthors advocate.
In addition, as policy makers also consider the next Child Nutrition
Reauthorization, the authors suggest restoring and building on the 2010
federal nutrition standards and working to explore schools' expanded
role in providing high-quality food year-round to students and families.
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Last week, we announced that Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters, an author in
the February issue of Health Affairs, had received the John Heinz
Dissertation Award for her dissertation "Inequities in Home Health
Access, Outcomes, and the Impact of Public Reporting."
We inaccurately stated that the award was from the National Academy of
Science. The award is conferred by the National Academy of Social
Insurance .
Elsewhere At Health Affairs
In Health Affairs Forefront, Katie Keith writes about the HHS's Notice
of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2023 Final Rule. Read the three
parts examining essential health benefits
,
exchange provisions
,
and the risk adjustment program
.
Earlier this week, Politico published a leaked draft opinion
from the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
In response, Julia Strasser and coauthors write that the elimination of
the federal constitutional right to abortion could have immeasurable
negative effects on women and families
,
including the loss of access to treatment associated with pregnancy
loss.
In an episode of This Week
,
Health Affairs' Senior Editors Jessica Bylander and Chris Fleming expand
upon the conversation surrounding abortion and discuss the health care
implications if Roe v. Wade were to be overturned.
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The Earth Disease
The final two episodes of the Earth Disease were released this week. In
them, journalist Jared Downing discusses how social determinants of
health programs intersect with climate and health policy.
He then goes on to explore incentives that the federal government can
use to curb climate change, speaking with Arsenio Mataka from the Office
of Climate Change and Health Equity
at the Department of Health
and Human Services.
These episodes mark the end of the 2021 Health Affairs podcast
fellowship. We'd like to thank all of fellows who have participated in
the program, including Sania Ali and Avni Kulkarni, producers of While
We Wait
, and
Lalita Abhyankar, producer of Piecemeal
.
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The centerpiece of the Health Affairs Journal Club meeting in May is,
"In Medicaid Managed Care Networks, Care Is Highly Concentrated Among
A Small Percentage Of Physicians
."
Using data from four states, Avital B. Ludomirsky and coauthors found
that, of primary care physicians who contracted with Medicaid, on
average just 25 percent provided 86 percent of care, and 25 percent of
specialists provided 75 percent of care.
Please join us on May 17 for a detailed discussion of the paper's
data, methods, and conclusions. Health Affairs Senior Editor Leslie
Erdelack will host.
For more updates about events, join our Events email list
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Brian Powers on How Humana Understands Medicare Advantage Enrollees'
Social Needs
Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Humana's
Brian Powers on understanding the unmet social needs of Medicare
Advantage enrollees.
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