Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . This episode was originally released on January 4, 2022. The Medicare program has placed considerable emphasis on creating accountable care organizations (ACOs), which are groups of health care providers that together take responsibility for providing necessary care and can reap financial rewards if they do so at lower than projected costs. While the American Hospital Association reports that 56 percent of community hospitals par...
Dec 05, 2023•27 min•Ep. 64
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Joel Weissman of Brigham and Women's Hospital on his recent paper identifying how hospitals are addressing the effects of structural racism and the ways in which health equity officers have become leaders to enact change. Order the "Tackling Structural Racism in Health" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like...
Oct 31, 2023•24 min•Ep. 156
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Zachary Dyer of University of Massachusetts on his recent paper measuring the enduring imprint of structural racism on American neighborhoods and how the authors developed a new measure, the Structural Racism Effect Index, to identify these impacts. Order the October 2023 issue of Health Affairs on Tackling Structural Racism in Health . Currently, more than 70 percent of our c...
Oct 24, 2023•27 min•Ep. 155
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Chidinma Ibe on her recent paper that provides a closer understanding of the value of community health workers' (CHW) voices, social risk factors, and how structural racism shapes CHWs' approach to intervention delivery in structurally vulnerable communities. Ibe and co-authors state their findings underscore the need to embed antir...
Oct 17, 2023•29 min•Ep. 154
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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: Rashad Burgess , Vice President of Advancing Health and Black Equity at Gilead Sciences CVS Health’s Sree Chaguturu and Joneigh Khaldun interview Rashad Burgess of Gilead Sciences about ho...
Oct 11, 2023•34 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Tina Hernandez-Boussard of Stanford University on her recent paper exploring ways that we can promote equity in clinical decision-making and how to dismantle race-based medicine. Order the October 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...
Oct 10, 2023•22 min•Ep. 153
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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. Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer, Google CVS Health’s Sree Chaguturu and Joneigh Khaldun interview Karen DeSalvo of Google on how to leverage data and partnerships to drive positive...
Oct 04, 2023•36 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jamila Michener from Cornell University on her recent paper examining the relationship between racism, power, and health equity through the lens of tenant organizations and housing rights. Order the October 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 t...
Oct 03, 2023•26 min•Ep. 152
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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. Nicole Christian-Brathwaite, MD , Head of Medical and Clinical Strategy at Headway and CEO and Founder of Well Minds Psychiatry & Consulting CVS Health’s Sree Chaguturu and Joneigh...
Sep 27, 2023•35 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 continue to keep our digital publicati...
Sep 26, 2023•22 min•Ep. 151
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 Etiebet of Merck about how to address ...
Sep 20, 2023•31 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 digital publication Forefront and...
Sep 19, 2023•29 min•Ep. 150
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 interview Bryan O. Buckley of the Na...
Sep 13, 2023•30 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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. With your support , we can continue ...
Sep 12, 2023•29 min•Ep. 149
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 and Joneigh Khaldun interview Thom...
Sep 06, 2023•37 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 publication Forefront and podcast...
Sep 05, 2023•25 min•Ep. 148
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 can continue to keep our digital...
Aug 29, 2023•25 min•Ep. 147
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 content is freely available - an...
Aug 22, 2023•34 min•Ep. 146
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . In a crossover episode with Health Affairs' Policy Spotlight event series , Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Meena Seshamani, director at the Center for Medicare at CMS. They discuss the evolution of Medicare Advantage, value-based programs, and more. 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 Foref...
Aug 15, 2023•59 min•Ep. 145
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 support , we can continue to keep our ...
Aug 01, 2023•23 min•Ep. 143
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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. Order the July 2023 issue of Health...
Jul 25, 2023•25 min•Ep. 142
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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, more than 70 percent of our con...
Jul 18, 2023•24 min•Ep. 141
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 content is freely available - and we'...
Jul 11, 2023•35 min•Ep. 140
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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, more than 70 percent of our con...
Jun 27, 2023•24 min•Ep. 139
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 issue of Health Affairs . Read the Iss...
Jun 20, 2023•23 min•Ep. 138
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 treated residents with other dia...
Jun 13, 2023•23 min•Ep. 137
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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, more than 70 percent of our conte...
Jun 06, 2023•18 min•Ep. 136
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 overall rates remain low and there ar...
May 30, 2023•28 min•Ep. 135
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Submi...
May 23, 2023•25 min•Ep. 134
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . 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 authors found significant disparities...
May 16, 2023•22 min•Ep. 133
