A Health Podyssey

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews Margaret Sieger of the University of Kansas Medical Center about her recent paper that reviews how Connecticut's novel prenatal substance exposure policy was associated with declining Child Protective Services reports and foster placements. Order the July 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'...

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews J. Wyatt Koma of Harvard University about his recent paper that explores enrollment trends and characteristics of low-income beneficiaries within Medicare Savings Programs. Order the July 2025 issue of Health Affairs . 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 k...

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews Bohan Li of Harvard University about her recent paper that explores substantial shifts in market landscape and acquisitions in Medicaid managed care . Order the July 2025 issue of Health Affairs . 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 public...

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews Paula Chatterjee of the University of Pennsylvania about her recent paper that explores whether or not rural hospitals saw financial improvements from participation in the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model . Order the July 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With yo...

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews Uché Blackstock , CEO and Founder of Advancing Health Equity (AHE) , on her experiences founding AHE in 2019, the mission statement of the organization to pursue health equity in health care, and her generational memoir, LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like...

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews Robert Burke of the University of Pennsylvania about his recent paper which evaluates outcomes for skilled nursing facilities value-based purchasing programs . Order the June 2025 issue of Health Affairs . 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 digit...

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews MacKenzie Hughes of NORC at the University of Chicago about her recent paper reviewing how transitional care management was associated with healthier days at home and lower spending after hospital discharges for patients. Order the June 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it t...

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews Keith Drake of Greylock McKinnon Associates about his recent paper that explores trends in authorized generic drug launches and the effects observed on competition in pharmaceutical markets in the US. Order the June 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your su...

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews Thomas Dobbs of the University of Mississippi Medical Center to offer observations on the current state of public health funding, current career potential in the public health field, and reflections from being the namesake on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court Case. Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available -...

On May 13, A Health Podyssey's Rob Lott chatted with Andrew Ryan of Brown University about his paper in the May 2025 edition of Health Affairs that explores how Rhode Island's affordability standards impacted hospital prices and insurance premiums .  Order the May 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way....

Health Affairs ' Jeff Byers welcomes Christina Farr , advisor, investor, editor-in-chief of Second Opinion Media , to the pod to discuss recent moves by Omada Health and Hinge Health to take the companies public, how the IPOs could impact the digital health market, and what gains her attention when companies make their investment pitches. Health Affairs released their first trend report, which is...

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews Thomas Buchmueller of the University of Michigan to discuss his recent paper that explores how during the Medicaid 'Unwinding' of 2023, the reduction in Medicaid-paid prescriptions was offset by increased commercial coverage . Order the May 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep...

Health Affairs ' Jeff Byers welcomes Katie Keith of Georgetown Law back to the pod to discuss President Trump's potential changes to the rulemaking process, how that may impact rulemaking at HHS, and break down the house Republican budget reconciliation bill and the impacts it could have on Medicaid and more. Become an Insider today to get access to our May 29 event on the FDA under the second Tru...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Caitlin Carroll of the University of Minnesota to discuss her recent paper that explores how rural hospital closures led to an increase in prices for nearby remaining hospitals. Order the May 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your suppo...

Health Affairs ' Jeff Byers welcomes Farzad Mostashari , founder & CEO of Aledade and the former National Coordinator for Health IT, to the pod to break down insights in the latest MedPAC report, quality measurement reform, and areas of opportunity for value-based care. Health Affairs is hosting an Insider exclusive event on May 29  focusing on the FDA's first 100 days under the second Trump a...

Health Affairs ' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Akilah Wish to the program to discuss the impacts of preserving the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the effects of physical exercise on health, and how this type of data helps inform policy making. We are hosting another live podcast recording of A Health Podyssey featuring host Rob Lott and guest Andrew Ryan where they will discuss hi...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Mary Kathryn Poole of Harvard University to discuss her recent paper that breaks down and compares economic assistance models on food security and diet quality. Order the April 2025 issue of Health Affairs . 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 con...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Shuyue (Amy) Deng of Tufts University to discuss her recent paper that takes a closer look at the estimated impact of medically tailored meals on health care use and expenditures in the US. Order the April 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. W...

Welcome to the final episode in a special four-part series from Health Affairs on the intersection of food, nutrition, and health. This special series compliments the release of a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health, which is currently available to read . In this episode, Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Ellen Bayer speak with Heather Thomas from the nonprofit A Place to Stand about her...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Kurt Hager of the University of Massachusetts to discuss his recent paper that explores how Medicaid nutrition supports were associated with reductions in hospitalizations and emergency department visits in Massachusetts through 2020–23. Order the April 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely...

In a special podcast episode, Health Affairs Scholar Associate Editor Loren Adler interviews Elizabeth Popp-Berman about the Health and Political Economy series of papers recently published in Health Affairs Scholar .   The series asks how might the U.S. build a more just and inclusive political economy for health rather than take the status quo for granted.   This paper collection was developed i...

Welcome to the third episode in a special four-part series from Health Affairs on the intersection of food, nutrition, and health. This special series compliments the release of a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health to be released this week . In this episode, Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Ellen Bayer discuss the content in the theme issue . Order the Food, Nutrition, and Health Issue...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Seth Berkowitz of the UNC School of Medicine to discuss his recent paper that explores a new approach to help guide research and policy at the intersection of income, food, nutrition, and health. Order the April 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that...

Welcome to the second episode in a special four-part series from Health Affairs on the intersection of food, nutrition, and health. This special series compliments the release of a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health to be released April 7, 2025. In this episode, Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander speaks with Diane Schanzenbach from Northwestern University on the topic of food support program...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Dr. Meena Seshamani , the incoming Maryland Secretary of Health , to discuss her time as the director of Medicare at the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services and what the future holds in her new role. 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 con...