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Friday, July 8, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From
Health Affairs
Dear John,
In conjunction with the October issue of Health Affairs, which will
focus on disability and health, the Narrative Matters section of Health
Affairs is holding a poetry contest
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We are looking for well-crafted poems that touch on topics related to
disability and health, by writers with lived experience of disability.
(Note: This includes family members or caregivers of people with
disabilities).
The contest is open until July 25. Submit your poem here
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Postdischarge Care And Readmission Rates
In the July issue of Health Affairs, Kevin Griffith and coauthors
assessed whether hospitals' thirty-day readmission rates
were associated with geographic variations in access to postdischarge
care supply.
Using data from 2019-13, the authors found that readmission rates were
negatively associated with per capita supply of primary care physicians
and licensed nursing home beds.
Further, the population-level supply of certain postdischarge care
options varied widely across the US. They report, "This variation was
associated with patients' risk for readmission after a discharge for
acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia."
"Our results suggest potential modifications to the Hospital
Readmissions Reduction Program to account for local health system
characteristics when assigning penalties to hospitals," Griffith and
coauthors conclude.
The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program was the focus of a
paper in the March 2022 issue of Health Affairs. Sukruth Shashikumar and
coauthors examine the three-year impact of stratification in the program
on vulnerable populations.
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health services.
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CMS Rule Recap: Rural Emergency Hospitals And Price Transparency
Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Kathleen Haddad discuss
the latest measures taken by CMS regarding rural emergency hospitals and
price transparency for hospitals and payers.
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Local Supply Of Postdischarge Care Options Tied To Hospital Readmission
Rates
Kevin
N. Griffith et al.
Combating A Crisis By Integrating Mental Health Services And Primary
Care
Gerald E. Harmon et al.
Doubling NIH Funding For Women's Health Would Yield Substantial Return
On Investment
Chloe E. Bird
Podcast: CMS Rule Recap: Rural Emergency Hospitals And Price
Transparency
Kathleen Haddad and Leslie Erdelack
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