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A Weekly Health Policy Round Up From Health Affairs            

**January 5, 2020**

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THIS WEEK ON THE BLOG

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Tenth Circuit Upholds HHS Risk Adjustment Methodology

By Katie Keith (1/1/20)

The plaintiff had argued that HHS failed to justify its use of a
statewide average premium in its risk adjustment formula. Writing for
the Tenth Circuit panel, Judge Matheson disagreed, noting that the
administrative record is "replete with reasoned explanations" for
this portion of the formula. Read More >>

FOOD

Addressing Food Insecurity In Clinical Care: Lessons From The Mid-Ohio
Farmacy Experience

By Aaron Clark, Daniel M. Walker, and Amy Headings (1/3/20)

The lessons learned from the experience of the Mid-Ohio Farmacy serve as
a useful example of how to form linkages between health care providers
and community-based organizations. Read More >>

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
,
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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IN THE JOURNAL

Health Affairs' 10 Most-Read Articles of 2019

As 2019 comes to an end, we take time to recognize the most-read

**Health Affairs** articles of this past year.

The list below covers a broad range of topics from health spending to
Medicaid expansion, from the cost of drugs to the role of the social
determinants of health. If you read the articles when they were first
published, we encourage you to revisit them. If they're new to you, we
hope you dig in and find out why they were so popular.

Health Affairs is grateful to all of the authors we publish in our
pages. Here's to a year ahead with yet more rigorous research and the
kind of path-breaking studies that continue to advance the field and
shape policy in new ways.  

1. National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-27: Economic And
Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth

by Andrea M. Sisko, Sean P. Keehan, John A. Poisal, Gigi A. Cuckler,
Sheila D. Smith, Andrew J. Madison, Kathryn E. Rennie, and James C.
Hardesty

2. It's Still The Prices, Stupid: Why The US Spends So Much On Health
Care, And A Tribute To Uwe Reinhardt

by Gerard F. Anderson, Peter Hussey, and Varduhi Petrosyan

3. Antipoverty Impact Of Medicaid Growing With State Expansions Over
Time

by Naomi Zewde and Christopher Wimer

4. The Contribution Of New Product Entry Versus Existing Product
Inflation In The Rising Costs Of Drugs

by Inmaculada Hernandez, Chester B. Good, David M. Cutler, Walid F.
Gellad, Natasha Parekh, and William H. Shrank

5. The Forgotten Middle: Many Middle-Income Seniors Will Have
Insufficient Resources For Housing And Health Care

by Caroline F. Pearson, Charlene C. Quinn, Sai Loganathan, A. Rupa
Datta, Beth Burnham Mace, and David C. Grabowski

6. Hospital Prices Grew Substantially Faster Than Physician Prices For
Hospital-Based Care In 2007-14

by Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, Nir J. Harish, Harlan M.
Krumholz, and John Van Reenen

7. National Health Care Spending In 2017: Growth Slows To Post-Great
Recession Rates; Share Of GDP Stabilizes

by Anne B. Martin, Micah Hartman, Benjamin Washington, Aaron Catlin, and
The National Health Expenditure Accounts Team

8. The Relationship Between Health Spending And Social Spending In
High-Income Countries: How Does The US Compare?

by Irene Papanicolas, Liana R. Woskie, Duncan Orlander, E. John Orav,
and Ashish K. Jha

9. Top-Funded Digital Health Companies And Their Impact On High-Burden,
High-Cost Conditions

by Kyan Safavi, Simon C. Mathews, David W. Bates, E. Ray Dorsey, and
Adam B. Cohen

10.  Decreases In Readmissions Credited To Medicare's Program To
Reduce Hospital Readmissions Have Been Overstated

by Christopher Ody, Lucy Msall, Leemore S. Dafny, David C. Grabowski,
and David M. Cutler

Share the Most-Read list
on
social media using #hatop10 and be sure to look for the 2019 Editor's
Top 10 Picks coming later this month.

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