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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

TODAY ON THE BLOG

ACCESS TO CARE

Vaccine Infrastructure And Education Is The Best Medical Investment Our Country Can Make
By J. Nadine Gracia and Amy Pisani

We are seeing an increase in preventable infectious disease outbreaks, gaps in long-standing vaccine practices, and a growth in sociodemographic disparities in vaccination rates, particularly among children who live in rural areas or who are uninsured. Solutions will require a renewed commitment to disease elimination, adequate funding, and enhanced bipartisan cooperation. Read More >>


FOLLOWING THE ACA

Supreme Court Denies Expedited Review Of Texas
By Katie Keith

Today the Supreme Court denied a request from 21 Democratic attorneys general and the US House of Representatives to expedite review of Texas v. United States. Read More >>


HEALTH AFFAIRS BRANDED POST

The Value of Medicare Advantage: Coverage Security, Consumer Choice, and Lower Costs
By Allyson Y. Schwartz and Griffin Myers
Supported by the Better Medicare Alliance

Consumer choice and coverage security. These phrases are often bandied about as partisan buzzwords in the health care reform debates of today, depicted as mutually exclusive values in service to the political narrative. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

MEDICARE

Spending And Quality After Three Years Of Medicare’s Voluntary Bundled Payment For Joint Replacement Surgery
By Amol S. Navathe, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Qian Huang, Atul Gupta, Claire T. Dinh, Eric Z. Shan, Dylan Small, Norma B. Coe, Erkuan Wang, Xinshuo Ma, Jingsan Zhu, Deborah S. Cousins, and Joshua M. Liao

Amol Navathe and coauthors report on the results of Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative after three years. They find that “participation in [BPCI] was associated with a 1.6 percent decrease in average lower extremity joint replacement episode spending, driven by the performance of early participants, with no changes in quality.”
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HA 39/1 Navathe et al.
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS–PAST EVENT:  Health Spending

Eighteen months ago, Health Affairs teamed with the National Pharmaceutical Council and Anthem, Inc., to launch a multiyear project to promote an evidence-based conversation about health spending. Get caught up with the September 2019 event: slides (click on Download Event), video, and podcast. Read journal articles and blog posts in our Considering Health Spending series.

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A CLOSER LOOK—Long-Term Care Workforce

By 2025 the number of seniors is expected to surpass that of children age 13 and under for the first time in US history, according to Census Bureau projections. A Health Affairs journal article reports that long-term services and supports for America’s elderly and disabled people will increasingly rely on immigrant labor.
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