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Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
From Health Affairs
Dear John,
We will host a number of events in February, including a briefing that
will cover health spending and financing of nursing homes. Check out our
upcoming events to learn more
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Medicaid HCBS Recipients And COVID-19 Deaths
In their new Health Affairs paper, H. Stephen Kaye and Joseph Caldwell
use health plan data from twelve states
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during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic to examine mortality
among recipients of Medicaid home and community-based services who are
younger than age sixty-five.
They find excess mortality rates for this group of people with
disabilities were 7.4 times those of community-dwelling Medicaid
beneficiaries of the same age not receiving home and community-based
services and 26.6 times those of the general population.
Further, "as a proportion of expected mortality, excess mortality rates
for older recipients and nursing home residents were comparable," Kaye
and Caldwell report.
The authors posit that multiplate factors likely contributed to the high
mortality rates of home and community-based services recipients,
"including individual risk factors, societal barriers, and indirect
impacts."
Read More
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Elsewhere At Health Affairs
Today in Forefront, Dennis Heaphy and Sasha Shenk argue that CMS should
include spiritual care
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as a covered service for dually eligible individuals enrolled in
capitated managed-care plans.
We are currently accepting submissions
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for a new series - "Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector.
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Take a look at some of our recently published articles
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we publish, and learn more about how you can get published with Health
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Daily Digest
Excess Deaths Of Medicaid Home And Community-Based Services Recipients
During COVID-19
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H. Stephen Kaye and Joseph Caldwell
Requiring Integrated Care Plans To Offer Spiritual Care To Dually
Eligible Individuals
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Dennis Heaphy and Sasha Shenk
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Loren Adler On Surprise Ambulance Bills And Beyond
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Loren Adler from the
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy about pricing and
billing for ground ambulance transportation.
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