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Mashup Score: 11Medicare, COVID-19, And More - 2 day(s) ago
The May issue of Health Affairs covers a range of topics, including analysis of payment in the Medicare program, efforts to reduce the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic, access to money-saving biosimil
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Mashup Score: 2The IRA: Reducing Inflation Or Threatening Patient Access? | Health Affairs Forefront - 2 day(s) ago
The Inflation Reduction Act does lower Medicare beneficiaries’ costs by capping their out-of-pocket spending on retail drugs in the Part D program; however, the IRA’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation program is far more coercive than any European country system and unnecessarily threatens access to medicines for millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
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Mashup Score: 11
Join this event featuring a discussion with the past and present leaders of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
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Special Event | 20th anniversary of @ONC_HealthIT. Join @mickytripathi1, @DavidBrailer, @RobKolodner, @DavidBlumenthal, @KBDeSalvo to discuss ONC's past health tech achievements and future challenges with Alan Weil. Thurs. May 9, 1:30-3pm ET. Register: https://t.co/NszKqOD9wo https://t.co/PYhGuA3DcZ
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Mashup Score: 3For Dually Eligible Individuals, Medicare Brokers Are 'Broken' | Health Affairs Forefront - 3 day(s) ago
The independent enrollment broker model should be used for full benefit dually eligible individuals for both their Medicaid and Medicare benefits.
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Mashup Score: 0Increased Use Of Medications For Opioid Use Disorder: Implications For Acute Pain Management | Health Affairs Forefront - 5 day(s) ago
There is an urgent need for the research and clinical communities to understand medication-managed opioid use disorder (OUD) as a long-term, chronic condition, and to develop best practices to concurrently treat acute pain and OUD.
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Mashup Score: 10House QALY Ban Could Harm, Not Help, People With Disabilities And Chronic Illness | Health Affairs Forefront - 5 day(s) ago
House-passed legislation would ban the use of quality-adjusted life-years, a metric that has gained worldwide acceptance as a preferred measure to enable wise use of limited health care resources across traditional disease categories.
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Mashup Score: 1Podcast: The Rise - and Future - of Medicare Advantage w/ Jack Hoadley | Health Affairs Podcast - 5 day(s) ago
Health Affairs’ Jeff Byers interviews Jack Hoadley from Georgetown University about the final rule for the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D programs for 2025.
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Mashup Score: 4The Acute Hospital Care At Home Waiver And The Future Of Hospital At Home In The US | Health Affairs Forefront - 6 day(s) ago
Over decades, researchers have developed and tested multiple home-based care delivery models that can now be brought together into a distributed, decentralized health care system that puts the patient at the center of care at home, where they have more agency and power to affect their care. Hospital at Home is the keystone of this future home-based care ecosystem.
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Mashup Score: 7Pillars, Policies, And Plausible Pathways Linking Digital Inclusion And Health Equity | Health Affairs Brief - 6 day(s) ago
Digital inclusion and health equity are connected through direct and indirect pathways. Strengthening both pathways will require broad policy and structural reforms to eliminate geographically based sociodemographic segregation and create conditions for people to use the internet to thrive.
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Mashup Score: 10Pillars, Policies, And Plausible Pathways Linking Digital Inclusion And Health Equity | Health Affairs Brief - 6 day(s) ago
Digital inclusion and health equity are connected through direct and indirect pathways. Strengthening both pathways will require broad policy and structural reforms to eliminate geographically based sociodemographic segregation and create conditions for people to use the internet to thrive.
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JUST RELEASED | In a new Health Policy Brief on Digital Inclusion & Health Equity, @amysheon and @elainkhoong write about how tech access, like stable high-speed internet and devices, drives structural disparities & access to health care. Read the Brief: https://t.co/Zn4JF86Icd https://t.co/4Tqks2JFPu
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JUST RELEASED: The May 2024 issue of Health Affairs on Medicare, COVID-19 & More is now available. Read the issue introduction from Editor in Chief, Alan Weil: https://t.co/t7RVSJv2zA https://t.co/uIOolHuRuP