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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Friday, January 24, 2020
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
ACCESS TO CARE
From Hospital To Home: Why Nutrition Counts
By Wendy Everett, Christina Badaracco, and Sharon McCauley
It is time to recognize the essential role that nutrition plays
in health and make policy and clinical practice changes to carry out effective post-hospital nutrition care. Read More >>
DISEASES
One Step Closer To Ending Leprosy
By Ann Aerts
While we still don’t know everything there is to know about leprosy, we do know that we already have the tools, the partnership models, and the evidence to be able to put the world on a path toward eradication. Read More >>
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IN THE JOURNAL
COSTS & SPENDING
National Health Care Spending In 2018: Growth Driven By Accelerations In Medicare And Private Insurance Spending
By Micah
Hartman, Anne B. Martin, Joseph Benson, Aaron Catlin, and
The National Health Expenditure Accounts Team
This new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that in 2018 health care spending in the United States grew at a rate of 4.6 percent to $3.6 trillion, or $11,172 per person. The 4.6 percent
growth rate in 2018 was faster than that of 4.2 percent in 2017 but was equal to the rate in 2016. The 0.4-percentage-point acceleration in overall growth in 2018 was driven by faster growth in private health insurance spending and Medicare. For the second year in a row, the number of uninsured people increased by 1.0 million, reaching 30.7 million in 2018. Read More >>
HOSPITALS
Out-Of-Network Billing And Negotiated Payments For Hospital-Based Physicians
By Zack Cooper, Hao Nguyen, Nathan Shekita, and Fiona Scott Morton
Most recently, attention on out-of-network billing has been focused on patients receiving large, unexpected physician bills. However, the impact of
out-of-network billing on total health care spending is also significant, according to Zack Cooper and coauthors from Yale University. Analyzing data from a large commercial insurer, the authors found that at in-network hospitals, 11.8 percent of anesthesiology care, 12.3 percent of care involving a pathologist, 5.6 percent of claims for radiologists, and 11.3 percent of cases involving an assistant surgeon were billed out of network. Read More >>
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