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View ArticleAlternative Health Care Payment Models—The Case for A Portfolio Strategy
A portfolio approach to health care payment reform, where a set number of alternative payment models are selected for testing because they work together to reduce waste, could be a more efficient way...
View ArticleTime and Financial Costs for Physician Practices Participating in MIPS
Participating in value-based incentive programs imposes financial and time costs on physician practices. Dhruv Khullar of Weill Cornell Medical College and Jason Hockenberry of Yale School of Public...
View ArticleCOVID-19’s Shock to Health Care Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects on the use of health care services. Dr Nora Becker of the University of Michigan talks about her research on reductions in the use of women’s...
View ArticleSelf-reported Access to Firearms Among Patients Receiving Care for Mental...
Firearms are the most common method of suicide in the US over the past decade. Primary care and mental health clinicians frequently interact with individuals at risk for suicide, but clinicians are...
View ArticleNew Evidence on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Insurance...
We know that the pandemic caused millions of people to lose their jobs, and potentially their job-based insurance, and yet new survey data showed surprisingly small changes in uninsurance rates at the...
View ArticleMedicaid Use and Spending for Drugs With FDA Accelerated Approval
State Medicaid programs are required to cover all drugs approved by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), including those that have received accelerated approval from the FDA to treat serious or...
View ArticleUS Share of Insulin Expenditures Going to Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and...
There are many actors in the drug supply and distribution system, and little is known about the share of drug expenditures going to each, making it more difficult to rein in costs. JAMA Health Forum...
View ArticleUnequal Burdens of Cost Sharing for Medicare Beneficiaries
Cost sharing is particularly burdensome for some Medicare beneficiaries, particularly those with incomes just above the poverty level, those with disabilities, or those who have multiple chronic health...
View ArticleHealth System Factors Related to Overuse of Health Services in Medicare
Overuse of health care, or providing services of low value or no value, is wasteful, potentially harmful to patients, and a contributor to high US health care costs. Jodi Segal, MD, of the Johns...
View ArticleMedicaid Policy Associated With Increased Enrollment During the Pandemic
For the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic public health emergency, state Medicaid programs elected to maintain eligibility for Medicaid recipients in exchange for increased federal funding. In this...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Vaccinations for California Prison Staff
Prison staff and residents have faced increased risks of COVID-19 infections. JAMA Health Forum Editor John Ayanian, MD, MPP, and Deputy Editor Melinda Buntin, PhD, speak with Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert,...
View ArticleHealth Care Job Loss During the Pandemic
The health care workforce has yet to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, and there is a concerning trend of increasing numbers of physicians leaving the workforce. JAMA Health Forum Editor John...
View ArticleAdvancing COVID-19 Research in a Learning Health Care System
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented need for accelerated collaborative research in health care systems. In a conversation with JAMA Health Forum Editor John Ayanian, MD, MPP, and Deputy...
View ArticleSpillover Benefits of Medicaid Expansion for Older Adults
Through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expansion has yielded clear improvements in insurance coverage and access to care for low-income adults younger than 65, but has...
View ArticleA Conversation With Dr Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, JAMA’s New Editor in Chief
In July 2022, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, took on a new role as the 17th editor in chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network. In conversation with Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, MD, Bibbins-Domingo...
View ArticleDoes Rewarding Better Patient Care Experience Punish Safety-net Hospitals?
Rishi K. Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses his article investigating the association of the Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program with changes in...
View ArticleMigration and Mortality Among Patients With Kidney Failure After Hurricane...
Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017 was one of the most costly and catastrophic storms in US history. In this podcast, Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez, PhD, of Brown University speaks about her study of...
View ArticlePrescription Drug Cost Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act
President Biden has signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act containing important provisions related to prescription drug costs. JAMA Health Forum Editor John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, and Deputy Editor...
View ArticleReceipt of Out-of-State Telemedicine Visits Among Medicare Beneficiaries...
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, most states approved temporary regulatory changes so out-of-state physicians could provide telemedicine services to residents. Ateev Mehrotra, MD, of Harvard Medical...
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