Earlier this week, Leonard Egede wrote a guest essay for the Health Affairs Today newsletter about integrating medical and social needs for adults with chronic disease, particularly type 2 diabetes.

In the essay, Egede writes about his recent research with coauthors about nonmedical interventions in type 2 diabetes.

Egede and his coauthors identify a few policy opportunities that could improve the health of adults with diabetes, including:

Medicaid expansion
Policies that help ameliorate vulnerabilities of our health system in times of systemic shock such as the COVID-19 pandemic
Policies that establish new billing practices for uninsured patients
Policy levers within the labor market targeting social mobility
Expansion of existing Department of Housing and Urban Development programs.

Read the full essay here and sign up for Health Affairs Today here to never miss a special author essay.

To read more curated newsletters like this one, join Health Affairs Insider to receive expert analysis on topics like health reform and health spending sent directly to your inbox.

Speaking of health reform, we released an ahead-of-print Eye On Health Reform article by Katie Keith earlier this week.

Keith discusses several recent health care decisions issued by the Supreme Court that will reshape access to care for decades to come. She joined a Lunch and Lunch panel last week on the topic for Insiders only but you can now check out the ahead-of-print article.

Insiders also receive a monthly newsletter from Katie Keith on health reform. You don't want to miss that.

Back to the policy. Health Affairs' Rob Lott and Vabren Watts went on Health Affairs This Week to discuss the federal and state policy aftermath following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In Health Affairs Forefront, Jeffrey Kang and coauthors respond to two recent Forefront articles and argue that, rather than abandoning disease-based risk adjustment in Medicare Advantage, CMS should address coding intensity issues and continue to move to physician-reported encounter data.

Sheryl Mathis and coauthors discuss an approach to addressing poor health outcomes for maternal and child health: creating and strengthening collaborations among state Title V agencies, state Medicaid programs, public health departments, and other state agency programs.

Laura Keohane and Ann Hwang highlight and analyze the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission's recommendations for states to develop strategies for integrating Medicaid and Medicare coverage for dually eligible beneficiaries.

We publish an average of two new articles on Health Affairs Forefront every day. Bookmark the publication to never miss an article. There may be a perspective that we don't highlight in this newsletter that may be of interest to you!

Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available—and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.

Disability And Health

Health Affairs is publishing a theme issue on disability and health in October 2022. Content will include original research, analyses, and commentaries that provides a multidimensional perspective on disability and health.

In conjunction with the issue, we are holding a poetry contest that touches 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 winning poet will receive a $500 prize and publication in the October issue of Health Affairs. The contest is open until July 25.

About Health Affairs

Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Published monthly by Project HOPE, the journal is available in print and online. Late-breaking content is also found through healthaffairs.org, Health Affairs Today, and Health Affairs Sunday Update.

Project HOPE is a global health and humanitarian relief organization that places power in the hands of local health care workers to save lives across the globe. Project HOPE has published Health Affairs since 1981.

Copyright © Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
Health Affairs, 1220 19th Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036, United States

Privacy Policy

To unsubscribe from this email, update your email preferences here.