Mental health policy needs a fresh focus on human rights, recovery‑oriented care, and evidence‑based practices, calling for reforms that treat people with dignity, strengthen community supports, align policy with science. Read: https://ow.ly/aJ3V50YhShR
#MentalHealth #HealthPolicy #HealthAffairs

Impact Of Medicaid Expansion On HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Coverage, 2012–23 | Health Affairs Journal Although its availability has grown during the past decade, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) remains underused in the US. We evaluated the impact of Medicaid expansion on state-level PrEP prescribing outcomes, using HIV surveillance data from all fifty states and Washington, D.C., from the period 201...

#Medicaid expansion didn't raise overall #PrEP coverage, but it did boost access where #HIV risk is higher. Biggest gains: white men ages 25–34. Racial gaps persist. Source: #HealthAffairs

https://f.mtr.cool/itkziwpqof

#AccessPress #PublicHealth

In #HealthAffairs, our Senior Adviser @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social co-authored w/ @spsaki.bsky.social how we should protect Americans in a #BirdFlu pandemic.

From rebuilding surveillance to restoring #mRNA vaccine programs.

Read more ⤵️
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Upcoming seminar hosted by #HealthAffairs on "#Immigration Policies and Their Impact on #Health Care," including effects on both patients and the healthcare workforce. Oct 15 at 1pm Eastern. Sign up here: www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/h... @nilc.org @immcouncil.org @kffhealthnews.org

Growth Of C-SNPs May Be Jeopardizing Medicare-Medicaid Integration | Health Affairs Forefront With the new availability of Medicare enrollment data for 2025, we examine ongoing enrollment growth of chronic condition special needs plans (C-SNPs) overall and among the dual-eligible population.

In new #HealthAffairs Forefront piece, we show a troubling trend:

Rapid growth of “Chronic Condition Special Needs Plans (C-SNPs)” enrolling dual-eligibles.

We argue their growth is threatening national integrated care efforts for duals.

www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/f...

🧠 Affordability means little without access. That’s the message behind the latest Physical Laws Framework (PLF) article from NMQF.

🔗 Read the full article: www.healthaffairs.org/sponsored-co...

🌐 Learn more at ConserveLife.org
#PrescriptionDrugs #HealthAffairs #AffordableCare #EquityMatters

Despite Relaxed Prescribing Rules, Opioid Addiction Treatment Still Hard to Find at Pharmacies - September 2, 2025 - USC Schaeffer Even as policymakers have made it much easier to prescribe buprenorphine, a new Schaeffer Center study finds most pharmacies still aren't carrying the treatment.  - September 2, 2025

It’s become much easier to prescribe a key #opioid addiction treatment. However, a new USC Schaeffer study in #HealthAffairs shows most pharmacies still don't carry the treatment, including in some especially hard-hit areas.

Podcast: Steven Lieberman on The Meteoric Rise Of Medicare Advantage | Health Affairs Podcast Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Steven M. Lieberman of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles on his recent paper that explores how Medicare Advantage has seen significant enrollment g...

Medicare Advantage has grown to cover most seniors.
Schaeffer Sr. Scholar Steve Lieberman traces how overpayments, upcoding & favorable selection are helping fuel MA's meteoric rise and discusses potential reforms on the #HealthAffairs podcast.

Overdose Risk Prediction Algorithms: The Need For A Comprehensive Legal Framework | Health Affairs Forefront Predictive analytics may have a key role to play in overdose prevention. Before the promise of these technologies can be realized, however, a comprehensive legal framework to address information shari...

PA lawmakers want to regulate #AI use in healthcare. At CP3, we've been thinking about this issue for years and wrote a paper published in #HealthAffairs in 2022.

www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

More on PA lawmakers via @wesa.fm:
www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

Artificial Intelligence In Health And Health Care: Priorities For Action | Health Affairs Journal The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has entered a new cycle of intense opportunity, fueled by advances in deep learning, including generative AI. Applications of recent advances affect many aspe...

📢 Dr. @prpayne5.bsky.social co-authored a must-read piece in #HealthAffairs. Priorities for AI in health care include safe AI, an AI-ready workforce, major research investments, and defining AI liabilities. Read more: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/... #AI #HealthCare #WashUMed #NAM

Medicare Part D Redesign Savings May Be Lower For Beneficiaries With Spending Below The Out-Of-Pocket Cap | Health Affairs Journal The Medicare prescription drug plan redesign under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 aims to simplify the Part D benefit while capping out-of-pocket spending for Part D–covered drugs. Whether and wh...

New paper out in #HealthAffairs on potential savings with the #InflationReductionAct in Medicare #PartD. Lots of savings for those needing specialty drugs but a note of caution for those with lower spending. Need to shop for a new plan if you take a preferred brand, especially in stand-alone plans!

History Repeats? Faced With Medicaid Cuts, States Reduced Support For Older Adults And Disabled People | Health Affairs Forefront Cutting federal Medicaid spending would have such negative consequences on older adults and people with disabilities because reductions in Federal reimbursements to states would leave states with tough choices: use more state dollars to pay for Medicaid (hard to do if the use of provider taxes is eliminated or severely cut), or cut Medicaid spending.

From HealthAffairs.Org -- "History Repeats? Faced with Medicaid Cuts, States Reduced Support for Older Adults and Disabled...." www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... #HealthAffairs #ProtectMedicaid #AdministrationOnCommunityLiving

This week’s #FindingsFriday insight comes from a new #HealthAffairs article led by CSHP/@rutgersifh.bsky.social Professor @ericaeliason.bsky.social.

The study examines how state continuous eligibility policies and structures affected children’s #Medicaid and CHIP enrollment: go.rutgers.edu/3q6z78ux

🚨New publication alert!🚨Thrilled to share our new study in #HealthAffairs: “Association Between #Telehealth Initiation of #Stimulant Therapy and New Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses”. #SUD #HealthPolicy #MentalHealth #HealthServicesResearch

Full paper 🔗: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

📢 Exciting news: Dr. @prpayne5.bsky.social co-authored a must-read piece in #HealthAffairs. Priorities for AI in health care include safe AI, an AI-ready workforce, major research investments, and defining AI liabilities. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/... #AI #HealthCare #WashUMed #NAM

Artificial Intelligence In Health And Health Care: Priorities For Action | Health Affairs Journal The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has entered a new cycle of intense opportunity, fueled by advances in deep learning, including generative AI. Applications of recent advances affect many aspe...

#AI is revolutionizing #health and #healthcare, but safety, trust, and equity are key. Our recent #NAM report outlines steps to ensure safe AI use, train a skilled workforce, invest in research, and clarify responsibilities.

#HealthAffairs

www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

Integrating Equity Into Licensing Agreements For Taxpayer-Funded Technologies | Health Affairs Forefront Current National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy allows corporations to commercialize medical technologies with few safeguards for global access. A new draft NIH policy begins to address that, but t...

NIH, the largest R&D funder in the world, is considering a new policy on global access to some publicly funded #health technologies. This policy must include guarantees for affordability, availability, tech transfer, transparency & open knowledge-sharing. Read more: shorturl.at/NxV6R
#HealthAffairs

Insurers Collected Billions From Medicare for Veterans Who Cost Them Almost Nothing Taxpayers paid for their care at the VA—and for Medicare Advantage coverage that many didn’t use. ‘I don’t think I’ve used my Medicare in years,’ said one Air Force veteran.

Medicare Advantage plans collecting billions from CMS to provide little to no care to veterans.

New analysis by @wsj.com consistent with our recent #HealthAffairs study (www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...)

Link to article:
www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Perinatal Health Insurance And Health Care Use By Immigration Status In 6 US States, 2020–22 | Health Affairs Journal Some noncitizens in the US are not eligible for public health insurance, potentially reducing access to preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care. We compared insurance coverage and health care use from the preconception period to the postpartum period by immigration status, using representative survey data collected from six US states between 2020 and 2022. Respondents were surveyed at two to six months postpartum and at twelve to fourteen months postpartum. Immigration status was classified in three categories: US citizen, permanent resident, and people who were neither citizens nor permanent residents. Compared with US citizens, fewer permanent residents had late postpartum insurance coverage, but coverage rates were otherwise similar. Coverage was lower among noncitizens/non–permanent residents compared with US citizens at every time point except pregnancy, with the largest differences at preconception (50.5 percent and 90.5 percent, respectively) and late postpartum (53.2 percent and 95.1 percent, respectively). Fewer permanent residents had health care visits before pregnancy compared with US citizens, but health care use was otherwise similar. Noncitizens/non–permanent residents had substantially lower rates of preconception health care, early and adequate prenatal care, postpartum visits, and having a usual source of care at one year postpartum. Expansion of public insurance to cover immigrants is needed to reduce large inequities in perinatal health insurance and health care use by immigration status.

So much to address in the #PublicHealth space! #PerinatalHealth is among those areas, and especially for #noncitizens. Great focus by #HealthAffairs with #HealthEquity opportunities~ www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

Research And Justice For All Podcast - Drives Of Health | Health Affairs

Got today's exercise listening material for my exercise... TY #Healthaffairs @deloitteinsights.bsky.social #DriversofHealth #PublicHealth #AcademicSky #HealthEquity

Medicare Advantage Plans With High Numbers Of Veterans: Enrollment, Utilization, And Potential Wasteful Spending | Health Affairs Journal Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are increasingly enrolling veterans. Because MA plans receive full capitated payments regardless of whether or not veterans use Medicare services, the federal government ...

An especially important read in this challenging #MA times! #VeteransHealth #Accesstocare TY #HealthAffairs @vetsactioncouncil.bsky.social @pamela-o-plays.bsky.social @militarytimes.bsky.social #Veterans also at higher risk of #SDoH #HRSNs #CoverageLapses!

How Medicare Is Causing Patients To Overpay For Prescription Drugs | Health Affairs Forefront With policy makers focusing on the role of drug manufacturers, almost no attention has been paid to the way in which traditional Medicare causes the elderly and people with disabilities to overpay for...

Interesting consideration #HealthAffairs #HealthcareSky #MedSky #PublicHealth #Accesstocare www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... @signaturedoc.bsky.social

Health Affairs Scholar article by P. Rebeiro, et al.: The Impact of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act on HIV care continuum outcomes across the United States

A #HealthPolicy & #EpiSky 🧵 (re-posting):

1. With renewed threats to the #ACA, my colleagues & I have a new paper out in #HealthAffairs #HAScholar on the effects of #Medicaid expansion under the ACA on #HIV care continuum outcomes across the US.

academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

New article with @colemandrake.bsky.social and #EzraGolberstein at #HealthAffairs
We look at the #Georgia #Section1332 #Reinsurance waiver for the #ACA and find substantial enrollment drops for 250-400% FPL

www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
Thread to follow tomorrow
#HealthPolicy