Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 percent of our content is freely av...
May 09, 2023•22 min•Ep. 132
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 biologics. Order the May 2023 issue of...
May 02, 2023•25 min•Ep. 131
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 concerns about the visits and two-th...
Apr 25, 2023•25 min•Ep. 130
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Michael Chernew from the Harvard Medical School on his recently-published paper examining the effects of lower Medicare Advantage benchmarks on plan generosity and benefits. The authors found that a $1,000 per year decrease in the benchmarks would lead to only moderate increases in annual premiums, deductibles and co-pays. Order the April 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently...
Apr 18, 2023•30 min•Ep. 129
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 . Currently, more than 70 percent of our...
Apr 11, 2023•23 min•Ep. 128
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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% closed. Order the April 2023 issue o...
Apr 04, 2023•22 min•Ep. 127
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Michelle Mello from the Center for Health Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine about her recently-published paper assessing public health laws during the COVID-19 pandemic . They found the public health laws in place as the pandemic emerged, which were framed in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax attacks, were poorly suited t...
Mar 28, 2023•29 min•Ep. 126
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Mariana Socal from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on a recently-published paper examining sources of production and levels of competition in the global supply chain for generic drugs sold in the United States. Order the March 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...
Mar 21, 2023•23 min•Ep. 125
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jennifer Kao from the UCLA Anderson School of Management on her paper published in the March 2023 issue examining drug repurposing for COVID-19 treatments during the pandemic. Order the March 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 digita...
Mar 14, 2023•19 min•Ep. 124
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation on his paper in the March 2023 issue examining the state and local public health workforce between 2017 and 2021 , before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. They found during this period, about half the workforce left their jobs with higher rates for younger and less experienced workers. Order the March 2023 issue o...
Mar 07, 2023•24 min•Ep. 123
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Robert Tyler Braun from Weill Cornell Medical College on his paper in the February 2023 issue examining trends in nursing home staffing following investment by real estate investment trusts. Order the February 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 ...
Feb 28, 2023•25 min•Ep. 122
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Clare Brown from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on her recently published paper examining rates of adverse infant outcomes by racial and ethnic categories and subcategories. Order the February 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 k...
Feb 21, 2023•19 min•Ep. 121
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Lisa Rotenstein from Brigham and Women's Hospital on her recently published paper examining the prevalence of mental health treatment during primary care physicians visits between 2006 and 2018. Order the February 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...
Feb 14, 2023•21 min•Ep. 120
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Louisa Holaday from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who published a paper in the January 2023 issue examining debt burden among medical residents after stratifying by race and ethnicity. Order the January 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 co...
Feb 07, 2023•19 min•Ep. 119
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Loren Adler from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy on his recently published paper in Health Affairs , which will appear in the February 2023 issue. He and colleagues examined pricing and billing for ground ambulance transportation with a particular focus on who owns the transportation service. The researchers found higher prices and higher potential surpri...
Jan 31, 2023•20 min•Ep. 118
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Salin Sriudomporn from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on her paper in the January 2023 issue of Health Affairs examining gaps in immunization funding among 94 low and middle income countries. Order the January 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...
Jan 24, 2023•17 min•Ep. 117
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Kate Bundorf from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University to discuss her paper in the January 2023 issue examining employment and health insurance coverage trends during the COVID-19 pandemic. Order the January 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 , ...
Jan 17, 2023•24 min•Ep. 116
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jennifer Ng’andu, managing director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of the Healthy Children and Families Program, on her paper published in the December 2022 issue of describing the relationship between income and health and examining how key federal income support policies relate to positive health outcomes. Order the December 2022 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, mor...
Dec 20, 2022•27 min•Ep. 114
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Sara Yeatman from the University of Colorado Denver to discuss her paper in the December 2022 issue assessing the effects of the 2009 Colorado's Family Planning Initiative on contraceptive access in college completion for women. They found the initiative led to an increase in college completion. Order the December 2022 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of...
Dec 13, 2022•20 min•Ep. 113
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Meera Kotagal from Cincinnati Children's Hospital discussing her and colleagues' paper in the December 2022 issue examining 15 different area-based socioeconomic deprivation indices. Order the December 2022 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 ...
Dec 06, 2022•26 min•Ep. 112
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Abdinasir Ali from University of Iowa College of Public Health on his research assessing the effects of state eviction moratoriums on mental health. Order the November 2022 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 publication Forefront ...
Nov 29, 2022•19 min•Ep. 111
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Anna Gassman-Pines from the Duke University on her recent paper assessing disparities in access to unemployment insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Order the November 2022 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 publication Forefro...
Nov 15, 2022•28 min•Ep. 110
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Brent Fulton from the University of California Berkeley on his recent paper on the rise of cross-market hospital systems and their US market power. Order the November 2022 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 publication Forefront a...
Nov 08, 2022•25 min•Ep. 109
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Christopher Ruhm from University of Virginia who published a paper in the November 2022 issue of Health Affairs examining the mortality effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic recession. He found that excess deaths in the U.S. during the first year of the pandemic were the result of both pandemic related effects and economic recession related effects. Order th...
Nov 01, 2022•27 min•Ep. 108
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Alan Weil interviews University of Michigan's Lisa Meeks on her recent paper she and colleagues published exploring the topic of mistreatment of physicians with disabilities . Order the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs on disability and health . Health Affairs thanks the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their financial support of this issue. Current...
Oct 25, 2022•29 min•Ep. 107
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews University of Massachusetts' Linda Long-Bellil on an overview paper she and co-authors published in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs . Using a biopsychosocial definition of disability, the authors found that health disparities among people with disabilities exist along race, gender and sexual orientation lines. Order the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs on disability...
Oct 18, 2022•22 min•Ep. 106
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Rice University's Madeline Smith-Johnson on a paper in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs assessing rates of disability among transgender and cisgender adults . Order the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs on disability and health . Health Affairs thanks the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for the...
Oct 11, 2022•26 min•Ep. 105
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Northwestern University's Tara Lagu on the paper she published in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs examining physicians attitudes toward patients with disabilities . Order the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs on disability and health . Health Affairs thanks the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ...
Oct 04, 2022•29 min•Ep. 104
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Alan Weil interviews Aliza Gordon from Elevance Health on her and coauthors' recently published paper in the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs comparing trends in provider charges for surprise billing between two states, New York and California, which have different mechanisms for setting surprise bill payment levels. Order the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs for research on nurses, care delivery, pharmaceuticals, and...
Sep 27, 2022•23 min•Ep. 103
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Alan Weil interviews Eric Roberts from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health to discuss his and colleagues recent research comparing the experiences of dual eligibles enrolled in D-SNPs with those enrolled in Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare . Read the full transcript . Order the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs for research on nurses, care delivery, pharmaceuticals, and more . Currently, more than...
Sep 20, 2022•29 min•Ep. 102
