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Mashup Score: 3Podcast: What Walmart Health's Demise Says About Retail Health and Telehealth Markets | Health Affairs Podcast - 23 hour(s) ago
Health Affairs’ Jeff Byers and Jessica Bylander go over the demise of Walmart Health and the health of retail clinics and telemedicine.
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Mashup Score: 5Community Health Workers Can Help Improve Youth Mental Health | Health Affairs Forefront - 1 day(s) ago
Community health workers (CHWs) play an integral role in connecting people to social and community services. We explore their potential role in the youth mental health crisis from a CHW’s perspective, summarize existing issues, and offer policy recommendations.
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Remote physiologic monitoring use increased more than 1,300 percent from 2019 to 2021, and use varied by state. This increase was driven by a small number of (predominantly internal medicine) providers. Female beneficiaries, residents of metropolitan areas, and people diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension had the highest rates of use.
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We must ensure people with obesity, including those on anti-obesity medications and receiving other forms of treatment, have access to the quality nutrition care they need.
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Mashup Score: 2Guaranteed Cash Incentives Boosted COVID-19 Vaccinations Of Young Adults: Evidence From West Virginia - 3 day(s) ago
Guaranteed small cash incentives were widely employed by policy makers during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, but the impact of these programs has been largely understudied. We were the first to exploit a statewide natural experiment of one such program implemented in West Virginia in 2021 that provided a $100 incentive to fully vaccinated adults ages 16–35. Using individual-level data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, we isolated the policy effect through a difference-in-discontinuities design that exploited the discontinuity in incentive eligibility at age thirty-five. We found that the $100 incentive was associated with a robust increase in the proportion of people ever vaccinated against COVID-19 and the proportion who completed or intended to complete the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines. The policy effects were also likely to be more pronounced among people with low incomes, those who were unemployed, and those with no prior COVID-19 infection. The guaranteed
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We investigated county-level variation in mRNA COVID-19 vaccine use among Medicare beneficiaries throughout the United States. There was greater use of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines than Moderna vaccines in urban areas for first and booster doses.
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Mashup Score: 6New ACA Policy Expands Access To Dental Care. Now, States Need To Act | Health Affairs Forefront - 3 day(s) ago
In April 2024, the Biden Administration finalized a new rule allowing states to include adult dental services in the list of designated essential health benefits required to be covered by most health plans under the ACA.
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Mashup Score: 0Protecting Patients And Society In An Era Of Private Equity Provider Ownership: Challenges And Opportunities For Policy - 3 day(s) ago
Private equity (PE) acquisitions in health care delivery nearly tripled from 2010 to 2020. Despite concerns around clinical and economic implications, policy responses have remained limited. We discuss the US policy landscape around PE ownership, using policies in the European Union for comparison. We present four domains in which policy can be strengthened. First, to improve oversight of acquisitions, policy makers should lower reporting thresholds, review sequential acquisitions that together affect market power, automate reviews with potential denials based on market concentration effects, consider new regulatory mechanisms such as attorney general veto, and increase funding for this work. Second, policy makers should increase the longer-run transparency of PE ownership, including the health care prices garnered by acquired entities. Third, policy makers should protect patients and providers by establishing minimum staffing ratios, spending floors for direct patient care, and limits
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Mashup Score: 2Tame The Private Equity Beast By Shifting Its Focus To Value-Based Care | Health Affairs Forefront - 3 day(s) ago
Private equity should be encouraged to invest in entities—such as independent primary care groups and accountable care organizations—that need additional capital to make the transition to value-based care.
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Mashup Score: 5Another Administration Win In Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Lawsuits | Health Affairs Forefront - 4 day(s) ago
In this article, we discuss an April 29 New Jersey decision regarding cases brought by Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, oral argument at the Fifth Circuit for an appeal by PhRMA and allied associations, and next steps in the ongoing litigation over the Medicare drug price negotiation program.
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On today's episode of Health Affairs This Week, we go over the demise of Walmart Health and the health of retail clinics and telemedicine. https://t.co/SyqFjEWM7K