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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Thursday, January 2, 2020**

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ON THE BLOG

The Most-Read Health Affairs Blog Posts Of 2019

Susan DeVore's look at trends to watch in 2019 was the most-read

**Health Affairs** Blog post of the year, heading a list that also
included several posts exploring social determinants of health and two
entries from Katie Keith's chronicling of all things ACA. Rounding out
our top ten: posts on maternal mortality, alternative payment models,
vaccine rates, and hot topics for health policy researchers and
analysts.

1. Health Care In 2019: Five Key Trends To Watch
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by Susan DeVore, January 10, 2019

2. Meeting Individual Social Needs Falls Short Of Addressing Social
Determinants Of Health
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by Brian Castrucci and John Auerbach; January 26, 2019

3. Final Rule On Health Reimbursement Arrangements Could Shake Up
Markets
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by Katie Keith; June 14, 2019

4. Standardizing Social Determinants Of Health Assessments
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by Douglas P. Olson, Benjamin J. Oldfield, and Sofia Morales Navarro;
March 18, 2019

5. Unpacking The Executive Order On Health Care Price Transparency And
Quality
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by Katie Keith; June 25, 2019

6. When Talking About Social Determinants, Precision Matters
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by Katie Green and Megan Zook; October 29, 2019

7. The United States Maternal Mortality Rate Will Continue To Increase
Without Access To Data
, by
Rachel Mayer, Alison Dingwall, Juli Simon-Thomas, Abdul Sheikhnureldin,
and Kathy Lewis; February 4, 2019

8. North Carolina: The New Frontier For Health Care Transformation
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by Mark B. McClellan, Mathew Alexander, Mark Japinga, and Robert S.
Saunders; February 7, 2019

9. Vaccine Exemptions And The Federal Government's Role
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by Richard Hughes IV; March 21, 2019

10. Three Hot Topics For The Health Policy Research Community In 2019
, by
Lisa Simpson; January 24, 2019

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A CLOSER LOOK-Risk Adjustment

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
upheld the methodology adopted by the Department of Health and Human
Services to administer its risk-adjustment program under the Affordable
Care Act (ACA). In an April 2017 study, Paul Jacobs and colleagues found
that, combined with a reinsurance program, the risk-adjustment approach
improved financial outcomes for individual market insurers
with the
highest claims in early years of the law's implementation.

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