Health Affairs This Week

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Listen to Marianne Amoss and Rob Lott talk about Health Affairs' Forefront series on Medicare and Medicaid Integration and some of their favorite articles about the dual eligible population.The series is produced with the support of Arnold Ventures. Included articles are reviewed and edited by Health Affairs Forefront staff; the opinions expressed are those of the authors. The series will run through October 31, 2022; submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.Related Links:Medicare and Medicaid Integration Landing PageTo Advance Health Equity For Dual-Eligibles Beneficiaries, We Need Culturally Appropriate Services (Health Affairs Forefront)Congress Considers Strategies To Improve Medicare and Medicaid Integration For Dual-Eligible Individuals (Health Affairs Forefront)Integrating Care In Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans: A Bigger Toolbox For States (Health Affairs Forefront)Podcast: Eric Roberts on Dual Eligibles Coverage (A Health Podyssey)Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Listen to Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Vabren Watts discuss a new partnership between Walmart and UnitedHealth Group - which will include efforts across retail health centers, Medicare Advantage plans, and social determinants of health - as well as other health care moves from big retailers like Amazon and CVS. Related Links:Press Release: Walmart and UnitedHealth Group Collaborate To Deliver Access to High-Quality, Affordable Health CareCVS Makes $8 Billion Bet on the Return of the House Call (New York Times)Gains Made By Walmart's Healthier Food Initiative Mirror Preexisting Trends (Health Affairs)Walmart, UnitedHealth to Offer Preventive Healthcare Program for Seniors (Reuters)Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Listen to Health Affairs' Ellen Bayer and Rob Lott review the state of the health care workforce in this Labor Day themed episode of Health Affairs This Week.Related Links:Primary Care Beyond COVID-19 (Health Affairs Forefront)New Behavioral Health Workforce Database Paints A Stark Picture (Health Affairs Forefront)Addressing Health Worker Burnout (U.S. Surgeon General)Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Hospital and Outpatient Clinician Workforce (HHS)Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Chris Fleming discuss the Moderna lawsuit against Pfizer regarding its mRNA technology in relation to the COVID-19 vaccine and its potential impact on the future of biopharmaceutical markets.Related Links:Covid Vaccine ‘Windfall Profits’ Under Attack by Patent Holders (Bloomberg Law)Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Listen to Health Affairs' Kathleen Haddad and Jessica Bylander discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's steps to revamp the agency, citing mistakes the agency made during the COVID-19 pandemic.Related Links:Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response, Calls for CDC Reorganization (New York Times)A Vision For Supporting and Reforming The CDC (Health Affairs Forefront)Fix The CDC But Don't Ignore The Rest of Our Public Health System (Health Affairs Forefront)Statement by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. (National Institutes of Health)Can the CDC Save Itself? (New York Times Opinion)Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Rob Lott dive into the health care and climate change provisions in the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act.Related Links:Understanding The Democrats’ Drug Pricing Package (Health Affairs Forefront)Congress Poised To Extend Enhanced Marketplace Subsidies Through 2025 (Health Affairs Forefront)FACT SHEET: Inflation Reduction Act Advances Environmental Justice (White House)Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs' Vabren Watts discusses the latest on monkeypox with Syra Madad and Andrew Wallach, both from NYC Health + Hospitals.Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.This week, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) updated measures in the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS). This year, the organization included measures related to health equity for data and quality measurement.NCQA Executive Vice President Eric Schneider joins Health Affairs' Rob Lott on today's episode of Health Affairs This Week to discuss the measurement changes.  Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Related Links:HEDIS MY 2023: See What's New, What's Changed and What's Retired (NCQA)A New Effort To Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities In Care Through Quality Measurement (Health Affairs Forefront)Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Listen to Katie Keith, Jessica Bylander, and Leslie Erdelack unpack the latest proposed rule from HHS implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.Section 1557 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability in certain health programs and activities. The proposed rule would reinstate civil rights protections for patients and consumers after the 2020 version of the rule limited the scope of these protections.Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Related Links:HHS Proposes Revised ACA Anti-Discrimination Rule (Health Affairs Forefront)Proposed Rule Press ReleaseFact SheetSupreme Court Finds LGBT People Are Protected From Employment Discrimination: Implications For The ACA (Health Affairs Forefront)Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.

Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Listen to Health Affairs' Kathleen Haddad and Ellen Bayer discuss the new hotline and mental health initiatives in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.If interested in the Amazon-One Medical news from the week, listen to the limited podcast series Piecemeal produced for Health Affairs by Lalita Abhyankar.Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.Related Links:US Transition to 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Begins Saturday (HHS)Transforming Mental Health and Addiction Services (Health Affairs)Strengthening Behavioral Healthcare To Meet The Needs Of Our Nation (Health Affairs Forefront)Bipartisan Safer Communities ActPodcast: The Mental Health Crisis (Health Affairs Pathways) Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.