Health Affairs

Improving The Long-Term Care Workforce Serving Older Adults

Robyn Stone ( [email protected]) is executive director of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging in Washington, D.C. Mary F. Harahan is an independent consultant and senior ...
Health Affairs

The United States Leads Other Nations In Differences By Income In Perceptions Of Health And Health Care

Joachim O. Hero ( [email protected]) is a doctoral candidate in health policy at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alan M. Zaslavsky is a professor of health care policy (statistics) in ...
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 ...
Health Affairs

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 ...
Health Affairs

Primary Care: Proposed Solutions To The Physician Shortage Without Training More Physicians

Thomas S. Bodenheimer ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Mark D. Smith is president and CEO ...
Health Affairs

Value-Based Insurance Design

Michael Chernew ([email protected]) is a professor of health care policy at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. Allison Rosen is an assistant professor in the Division of General Medicine at ...
Health Affairs

The New Way Of Governing Global Health

Margaret K. Saunders ([email protected]) is deputy editor for global health at Health Affairs, in Bethesda, Maryland. To understand the institutions that lead global health governance today, it is ...
Health Affairs

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 ...
Health Affairs

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 ( ...
Health Affairs

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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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 ...
Health Affairs

The 2021 Child Tax Credit: Implications For Health

The Child Tax Credit is a near-universal benefit for families with children. Each year, it lifts millions of children out of poverty. Adding income to low- and middle-income families has been shown to ...