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A Health Podyssey

Each week, Health Affairs" Rob Lott brings you in-depth conversations with leading researchers and influencers shaping the big ideas in health policy and the health care industry. A Health Podyssey goes beyond the pages of the health policy journal Health Affairs to tell stories behind the research and share policy implications. Learn how academics and economists frame their research questions and journey to the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Health policy nerds rejoice! This

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25:29

Jane Zhu Gets Spooky About Phantom Providers

A Health Podyssey ·

2022/07/12

Finding access to mental health services can be challenging in the United States.The explosion of the demand for services, the inadequate workforce to provide them, and payment levels and methods that don't always support the care people need all contribute to these challenges.There are also longstanding concerns around access to all types of care for people enrolled in Medicaid, primarily due to low payment rates for services.If you put those together, it's not surprising that access to

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Juan Andino Breaks Down Interstate Telehealth Waivers

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2022/07/05

Telemedicine burst onto the scene as the nation locked down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically, telehealth, or telemedicine, was tightly restricted both by regulation and by payment policy.But in response to COVID-19's disruption of in-person care, all 50 states and Washington, DC issued temporary waivers that allowed clinicians to administer telehealth care to patients who live in a different state than their provider.Juan Andino from the University of Michigan joins A

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28:52

Sherry Glied Thinks Health Savings Accounts Have...

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2022/06/28

High prices are an enduring feature of the United States health care system. Traditional market forces haven't seemed to bring them down, which leads some to wonder if we need a new approach.Some may wonder, why not harness the purchasing behavior of consumers who provide downward cost pressure in pretty much every other sector of the economy?Enter the idea of high-deductible health plans - health insurance with a high deductible which presumably should make consumers more careful with

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Excursion: Andy Slavitt

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2022/06/21

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Andy Slavitt, co-founder of both United States of Care and Town Hall Ventures and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.Andy is the host of the podcast In The Bubble with Andy Slavitt and recently published the book, "Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response."Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely

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Krista Harrison Peers Into the Intersection of...

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2022/06/14

The concepts that underlie hospice were introduced a few centuries ago but, the modern hospice movement began in London in 1967.In 1982 hospice was added as a Medicare benefit. Today, half of all Medicare decedents enroll in hospice, at a total cost of $20.9 billion to Medicare in 2019.Hospice has a strong evidence base for improving end-of-life experiences for the recipient and the recipient's family. But there's limited evidence regarding the effects of hospice for people with

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25:45

Ateev Mehrotra Shines a Light on Indirect Billing

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2022/06/07

Recently, there's been dramatic growth in the number of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). The number of NPs has more than tripled in the last decade while the number of PAs has almost doubled.Yet, due to particular billing practices in Medicare, it can be difficult to know how care these clinicians are providing. That means there's a lot we don't know about access and quality related to this critical part of the health care workforce.Ateev Mehrotra from Harvard

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29:59

Rachael Bedard Explains Health Care in Jails

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2022/05/31

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world.Health care for people in jails and prisons is rarely part of mainstream health care and health policy conversations. But people who are incarcerated have significant health needs and a legal right to medical treatment.In addition, with 10 million people released from jail every year, needs that aren't met while people are incarcerated re-emerge in the community.While the number of incarcerated people in the

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Christine Ritchie Reimagines Home-Based Care

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2022/05/24

When the Institute of Medicine defined health care quality, patient-centeredness was one of the five core dimensions. Yet as many have noted, the health system often seems to be more organized around the needs of providers than patients.This reality is particularly true when it comes to older Americans. An entire system of coverage and care has built up around institutional needs and institutional definitions - nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living centers, rehabilitation centers, and

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Caitlin Hicks on Telemedicine and Care Inequities

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2022/05/17

When medical offices shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and people were encouraged or required to avoid public spaces, there was a dramatic and rapid increase in the use of telemedicine. Telemedicine has the potential to open up access to care, particularly to people who are geographically isolated or have mobility limitations, but it can also exacerbate existing inequities given its relevance upon broadband internet access and other technologies.Caitlin Hicks from Johns Hopkins School

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Vilsa Curto on Vertical Integration's Effect on...

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2022/05/10

The health care sector has gone through various waves of consolidation with hospitals purchasing physician practices and hospitals, physicians, and health insurers merging with each other.We're in the midst of a wave of consolidation.Two years ago, Health Affairs published a paper that found more than half of US physicians and 72 percent of surveyed hospitals were affiliated with one of 637 health systems in 2018. More recently, some have estimated that the 10 largest health systems now

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Brian Powers on How Humana Understands Medicare...

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2022/05/03

More than 40 percent of Medicare enrollees are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, privately-sponsored health plans that provide Medicare benefits often along with other benefits not included in the standard Medicare package such as eye exams, hearing aids, and dental coverage.Medicare Advantage is growing rapidly. On the current trajectory, it's likely that the majority of Medicare enrollees will be in MA plans within a year or two.Since MA plans are paid on a capitated basis,

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Alexandra Bhatti Assesses US Child Care Vaccination Laws

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2022/04/26

This episode is sponsored by the Rural Health Research Gateway at the University of North Dakota.Vaccine requirements have been much in the news lately tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, but disputes over requiring vaccines have been with us for decades.How to balance respecting individual autonomy with protecting public health is not a new issue. It's played out in particular force when it comes to children.All states have vaccine requirements for children as they enter school and those

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Katie Keith Throws an ACA Birthday Party

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2022/04/19

This episode is sponsored by the Rural Health Research Gateway at the University of North Dakota.March 23 marked the 12th anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).This landmark legislation expanded health care access to millions of Americans and accelerated changes in how we organize and pay for health care. Having survived numerous legal challenges and strong political opposition by some, it continues to be the centerpiece of domestic health policy.If you want to

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30:42

Stacie Dusetzina Shares Why Medicare Beneficiaries...

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2022/04/12

This episode is sponsored by the Rural Health Research Gateway at the University of North Dakota.The United States is facing a drug affordability crisis. Even as we celebrate scientific discovery, the health benefits of drugs are limited due to barriers of affordability, often even for people with health insurance. The RAND Corporation reports that on average drug prices in the United States are more than two and a half times those in 32 other nations studied. The disparities are even wider

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24:32

Kathryn Phillips Wants to Anticipate Payer Cancer...

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2022/04/05

This episode is sponsored by the Rural Health Research Gateway at the University of North Dakota.Cancer diagnosis has changed radically in the era of precision medicine. New techniques like multi-cancer early-detection screening tests can detect up to 50 types of cancer from a single blood draw.We generally think of early detection, especially of cancer, as an unambiguously good thing. Given that, you might assume and expect that insurers would readily pay for it. But it turns out the

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28:33

Seth Berkowitz Puts A Figure to Social Determinant...

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2022/03/29

Limited access to transportation is well established as a barrier to people obtaining health care services. If it's hard to get to the doctor, you're less likely to go and that means delays getting needed care, poorer management of chronic conditions, and more use of the emergency room.While health insurance typically covers emergency transportation, say for an ambulance, coverage of non-emergency transportation to get you to a doctor's visit is less common. Medicaid, which serves people

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26:59

Hector Rodriguez Argues Brick-and-Mortar Health Care...

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2022/03/22

There's a tremendous amount of consolidation going on in the health care sector. A lot of the research about consolidation focuses on the economics. But, one of the primary arguments people make for bringing disparate parts of the health system together is that it enables clinical integration.Patients, they say, should get better care if the clinicians are talking to each other and sharing information, which is easier to do if clinicians are a part of the same health care system.It turns

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27:53

Jill Horwitz Questions the Role of Nonprofit Hospitals

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2022/03/15

Out of about 5,000 community hospitals in the United States, almost 3,000 are nonprofit. More than a thousand are investor-owned, also called for-profit. The balance are owned by state or local governments.Nonprofit hospitals, like all nonprofit organizations, must have a charitable mission and for hospitals that mission is generally expressed as providing charity care and various benefits to the community.In exchange, nonprofit hospitals are exempt from various taxes, they can receive

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39:22

Ruth Zambrana Argues Structural Racism is a Social...

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2022/03/08

Racism is a social phenomenon. Even though the medical research community has historically relied heavily on racism that treated Black bodies as property that could be experimented upon, clinical medicine has actually been pretty slow to accept racism as a legitimate topic of examination.Health services, with its ties to the social sciences, has been somewhat more accepting of the notion that racism is a topic worthy of scholarly inquiry. However, direct discourse about racism has been

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Melanie Sabado-Liwag on the Enduring Impact of...

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2022/03/01

There are more than 22 million people of Asian descent living in the United States. In the aggregate, Asian Americans have mostly better economic and health outcomes than other groups, including White Americans.Yet within the broad category of Asian Americans, there are dozens of subgroups often with quite different health outcomes and lived experiences. This within-group heterogeneity is often lost, buried under the so-called model minority myth, which is used to deny attention to unmet

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