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Mashup Score: 0Guaranteed Cash Incentives Boosted COVID-19 Vaccinations Of Young Adults: Evidence From West Virginia - 11 hour(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: 4New ACA Policy Expands Access To Dental Care. Now, States Need To Act | Health Affairs Forefront - 14 hour(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 - 14 hour(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 - 19 hour(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 - 1 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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Mashup Score: 3Cultivating Vital Conditions For Perinatal Well-Being And A Sustained Commitment To Reproductive Justice - 2 day(s) ago
Perinatal mental illness is a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the first postpartum year in the United States. Although better acute care services for mental health conditions are desperately needed, urgent services alone cannot create the conditions to thrive. Cultivating well-being requires a sustained commitment to reproductive justice, “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.” To support reproductive justice for pregnant and birthing people, the Rippel Foundation’s Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being framework offers a holistic approach comprising seven domains: a thriving natural world; basic needs for health and safety; humane housing; meaningful work and wealth; lifelong learning; reliable transportation; and, central to all of these, belonging and civic muscle. Here we review the evidence for each of the vital conditions as key drivers of perina
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Mashup Score: 2The Tobacco Endgame Begins | Health Affairs Forefront - 2 day(s) ago
By implementing and enforcing this policy, community leaders can steadily increase the proportion of the population that is tobacco-free.
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Mashup Score: 8The Role Of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations In Maternal Health | Health Affairs Forefront - 2 day(s) ago
Improving maternal health in the United States is an urgent public health concern, and Medicaid ACOs represent the type of comprehensive intervention that has the capacity to address barriers to progress multiple levels.
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Mashup Score: 9The Acute Hospital Care At Home Waiver And The Future Of Hospital At Home In The US | Health Affairs Forefront - 2 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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In their new article, Yin Wang, @cfstoecker and coauthors at @TulaneSPHTM find that guaranteed cash incentives increased vaccine uptake among young adults in West Virginia. Read the full paper: https://t.co/nS8G3zPRiq