Health Affairs

Excess Deaths Of Medicaid Home And Community-Based Services Recipients During COVID-19

H. Stephen Kaye, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Joseph Caldwell ([email protected]), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Using health plan data, we ...
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Cost-Effectiveness And Health Impact Of Increasing Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness In The US

The quality of emergency department (ED) care for children in the US is highly variable. The National Pediatric Readiness Project aims to improve survival for children receiving emergency services. We ...
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Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Preventable Hospitalizations And ED Visits Five Years After ACA Medicaid Expansions

Asako S. Moriya, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Sujoy Chakravarty ([email protected]), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Medicaid expansions under the ...
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Use Of Social Determinants Of Health Z Codes Was Sparse, 2016–22

Monica S. Aswani ([email protected]), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. Lauren A. Do, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. Paul R. Shafer, Boston University. The ...
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Hospital Governance And The Quality Of Care

Ashish Jha ( [email protected]) is an associate professor in the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. Arnold Epstein is chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at ...
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Prevalence And Spending Associated With Patients Who Have A Behavioral Health Disorder And Other Conditions

Ken Thorpe is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. Sanjula Jain ( ...
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An Increase In The Number Of Nurses With Baccalaureate Degrees Is Linked To Lower Rates Of Postsurgery Mortality

Ann Kutney-Lee ( [email protected]) is an assistant professor of nursing and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Douglas M.
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Housing Affordability And Children’s Cognitive Achievement

Sandra Newman ( [email protected]) is a professor of policy studies in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland. C. Scott ...
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Gradual Rebalancing Of Medicaid Long-Term Services And Supports Saves Money And Serves More People, Statistical Model Shows

H. Stephen Kaye ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Health and Aging and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, both at the University of California, San ...
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Remembering Drummond Rennie

Rennie was a nephrologist by training but perhaps his most enduring legacy is as a leading advocate for research transparency and integrity.
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Discrimination: A Social Determinant Of Health Inequities

Discrimination is unequal treatment based on physical characteristics or social group assignment. While “to discriminate” simply means to divide, or make distinct, to “discriminate against” connotes ...
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Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Creating A Separate Conversion Factor For Primary Care

In this piece, we explore reasons for creating a separate conversion factor within the MPFS, initially for advanced primary care management codes and eventually for a prospective payment to cover a ...