The June 2022 issue of Health Affairs covers a range of topics including drug pricing, hospice care, telehealth, and more.

On the topic of health care costs, William Feldman and coauthors analyze how manufacturers limit generic competition through the use of patents and other exclusivities granted to inhalers approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Elsewhere in the issue, authors examine care delivery.

Juan Andino and coauthors assess trends in interstate telehealth uptake
by Medicare beneficiaries during 2017–20 in light of COVID-19-related
regulatory changes.

Using nationally representative data from 2011–17, Krista Harrison and coauthors determine that the proxies of hospice-enrolled people living with dementia are more likely to rate last-month-of-life care as excellent compared with the proxies of people living with dementia who did not enroll with hospice.

Both Harrison and Andino will join Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil on upcoming episodes of A Health Podyssey to discuss their research. Subscribe wherever you listen.

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This week, we released two Considering Health Spending Research Briefs addressing the roles of prices and clinical waste in excess US health spending.

One brief, "The Role Of Prices In Excess US Health Spending", points to high prices in the private sector as a critical driver of excess health spending and growth in the US.

Another brief examines the role of clinical waste in excess US health spending. According to the research cited in this brief, clinical waste is a critical driver of excess health spending in the US, accounting for 5.4–15.7 percent of national health spending.

Considering Health Spending Research Briefs are supported by the National Pharmaceutical Council and by Anthem, Inc. Briefs are produced by Health Affairs staff based on research conducted to support the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value.

In Health Affairs Forefront, Katie Keith writes about the status of several lawsuits filed by health care providers over the No Surprises Act and recent guidance on implementation of the law.

Alexa Fleet and coauthors discuss how meeting the behavioral health care needs of older Americans depends on integrated health services success, especially via technology, and flexible payment model strategies.

Sara Rosenbaum and coauthors assert that Medicaid's performance, including Medicaid managed care, will be key to averting the human toll of unplanned, unwanted pregnancy following the Supreme Court's likely decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

In an episode of This Week, Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Ellen Bayer go over the big health policy headlines from this week, including what we know about monkeypox, the implications of the latest Medicare Trustees Report, and nursing home workforce shortages.

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