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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 >>
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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, by Susan DeVore, January 10, 2019
2. Meeting Individual Social Needs Falls Short Of Addressing Social Determinants Of Health, by Brian Castrucci and John Auerbach; January 26,
2019
3. Final Rule On Health Reimbursement Arrangements Could Shake Up Markets, by Katie Keith; June 14, 2019
4. Standardizing Social Determinants Of Health
Assessments, 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, by Katie Keith; June 25, 2019
6. When Talking About Social Determinants, Precision Matters, 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, 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
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.
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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About Health Affairs
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