A Health Podyssey

Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jeffrey Marr from Johns Hopkins University on his recent paper examining trends in home-based medical care use in Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare. Order the September 2023 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 conti...

This is a special publication of the first season of the new Health Affairs podcast, Research and Justice For All . The first season, "Private Sector Solutions," is sponsored by CVS Health. The six-episode season will publish Wednesdays. Guest: Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet, AVP for Health Equity at Merck and Lead of Merck for Mothers  CVS Health’s Sree Chaguturu and Joneigh Khaldun interview Mary-Ann Etie...

Health Affairs 's Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Health Care Cost Institute's Aditi Sen on her recent paper that suggests that employers lack leverage to negotiate lower health care prices . Order the September 2023 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...

This is a special publication of the first season of the new Health Affairs podcast, Research and Justice For All . The first season, "Private Sector Solutions," is sponsored by CVS Health. The six-episode season will publish Wednesdays. Guest: Bryan O. Buckley, Director of Health Equity Initiatives at the National Committee for Quality Assurance CVS Health’s Sree Chaguturu and Joneigh Khaldun int...

Health Affairs 's Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews University of Southern California, Los Angeles' Jack Chapel on his recent paper examining the worsening health and economic trends for Americans with modest resources nearing retirement. Order the September 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. Wit...

This is a special publication of the first season of the new  Health Affairs podcast, Research and Justice For All . The first season, "Private Sector Solutions," is sponsored by CVS Health. The six-episode season will publish Wednesdays. Guest: Thomas Sequist, Chief Medical Officer at Massachusetts General Brigham In the first episode of Research and Justice For All , CVS Health’s Sree Chaguturu...

Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews University of Maryland's Rebecca Gourevitch on her recent paper examining home visits with a registered nurse's impact on prenatal care . Order the August 2023 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...

Health Affairs' Alan Weil interviews Sean Dickson from West Health Policy Center on his recent paper examining the changes in net prices and spending for pharmaceuticals after the introduction of new therapeutic competition . Order the August 2023 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...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews James Robinson from the University of California Berkeley on his recent Policy Insight paper discussing how industrial policy could accelerate innovation in the life sciences . Listen to James' previous A Health Podyssey appearance discussing biosimilars here . Order the August 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Julia Dennett from Yale University on her recent paper examining the impact that early OxyContin marketing in the 1990s had on the spread of infectious diseases 25 years later. Pre-order the August 2023 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 Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jane Zhu from Oregon Health and Science University about a recent paper assessing psychiatrists network breadth across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid Managed Care Plans and Affordable Care Act plans in 2019 . Zhu and co-authors found network breadth for psychiatrists was notably narrower in Medicare Advantage markets than in those other markets. Or...

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Yanlei Ma from Harvard University on her recently published paper examining trends in D-SNP look alike plan enrollment . She and co-authors found high rates of growth that raise concerns regarding efforts to coordinate care for this high need population. Order the July 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Read the Issue's Table of Contents . Currently...

Live from Aspen Ideas: Health ! Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Susan Magsamen, founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Ivy Ross, vice president of design for hardware products at Google about their new book, " Your Brain on Art ," and how art relates to health. Currently, more than 70 percent of our cont...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jessica Adler from Florida International University on her recent paper examining the relationship between jail conditions and characteristics and death rates . She and Weiwei Chen found an association between certain conditions and these mortality rates. Order the June 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Read the Issue's Table of Contents . Currently...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Andrew Bolibol, a Ph. D. candidate in the Health Policy Program at Harvard University on his recently-published paper examining trends in health insurance coverage among LGBT adults . He and colleagues found a closing gap in health insurance among LGBT adults relative to non LGBT adults. But disparities in access persist. Order the June 2023 issu...

Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Dana Mukamel from the University of California, Irvine on her recent paper examining whether residents diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are spread out across nursing homes or concentrated in a subset of nursing homes. She and co-authors found that residents with dementia tend to be dispersed, with the vast majority residing in homes that...

Health Affairs' Alan Weil interview Kelsey Owsley from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on her new paper assessing whether the 340B drug pricing program leads to increase in oncology services in rural hospitals. She and colleagues find that participation in 340B is correlated with increased likelihood of offering cancer care. Order the June 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently,...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews José Figueroa from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss his recently-published paper examining enrollment trends and characteristics of dually eligible enrollees in integrated care programs . He and co-authors find significant growth in the share of people with dual eligibility enrolled in integrated programs, even though over...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Brady Post from Northeastern University on his recently published paper examining differences in care among patients treated by cardiologists who are either practicing independently or as part of a hospital system. Post and co-authors found higher rates of high intensity interventions when cardiologists were in hospital systems. Order the May 202...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Andrew Anderson from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a member of the Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees program at Health Affairs on his recently published paper assessing financial costs associated with disparities in preventable heart failure hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries in the US South. The auth...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Anthony LoSasso from DePaul University on his recently published paper examining the effects of insurer market power on prices paid to hospitals . The authors found the larger insurer market share is associated with lower prices paid with the differences is quite significant. Order the May 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 pe...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Amelia Bond from Weill Cornell Medical College on her paper exploring whether participation in the 340B drug program influences biosimilar uptake . Bond and coauthors found that in hospital outpatient settings, 340B program eligibility is associated with a lower use of biosimilars and more hospital-based administrations of and revenues from biolo...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Gillian SteelFisher from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Opinion Research Program on her recently-published a paper assessing the attitudes of primary care physicians and patients toward telemedicine . The authors found that while most patients and physicians were satisfied with their experiences, many physicians had con...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Matthew McCoy from the University of Pennsylvania on his recent paper examining third party data tracking on hospital website home pages . The authors found almost all of these websites feature third party data tracking with large amounts of data transfer from these websites to other locations. Order the April 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Curre...

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Caitlin Carroll from the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health on her recently-published paper examining hospital survival in rural markets with a particular focus on hospitals in financial distress . The authors found that between 2010 and 2018, 77% of unprofitable hospitals continued to operate as usual, while 17% merged and 7% clo...