Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil welcomes Liz Fowler, Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to A Health Podyssey to discuss the future of health care payments, CMMI's specialty care strategy, mandatory models versus voluntary alternative payment models, CMS' newly-proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2025 , and more...
Jul 16, 2024•31 min•Ep. 183
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Live from Aspen Ideas: Health ! Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Debra Whitman , chief public policy officer of AARP , to discuss her upcoming book " The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond " and how she was driven to research questions like "Will I lose my memory?" and "Will I have enough money?" for her new book on healthy aging. Currently, more than 70 percent of our content ...
Jul 09, 2024•26 min•Ep. 182
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Renee Hsia of the University of California San Francisco on her recent paper that explores the structural inequities in the adoption of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) services by US hospitals. Order the July 2024 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...
Jul 02, 2024•27 min•Ep. 181
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Ross Brownson of Washington University on his recent paper that details the path towards a transformed public health system and how a focus on social determinants of health and partnerships with diverse sectors can help overcome challenges in the current system. Order the "Reimagining Public Health" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is fr...
Jun 25, 2024•26 min•Ep. 180
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Nir Menachemi of Indiana University on his recent paper that explores how Indiana increased their public health spending , the resulting legislative victories, and how this approach to strengthening funding could offer insights to other states. Order the "Reimagining Public Health" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - a...
Jun 18, 2024•32 min•Ep. 179
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Cory Cronin of Ohio University on his recent paper on identifying opportunities and understanding how to best align hospitals’ needs assessments and community health In Ohio. Order the "Reimagining Public Health" 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 ...
Jun 11, 2024•27 min•Ep. 178
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Chelsey Kirkland of the University of Minnesota on her recent paper that explores the development of a new model for the governmental public health workforce in Minnesota. Order the "Reimagining Public Health" 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 ...
Jun 04, 2024•23 min•Ep. 177
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Christopher Cai of Brigham and Women's Hospital on his recent paper that explores the challenges posed by private equity acquisitions in health care delivery and the opportunities for policy to protect patients in this new era of private equity provider ownership. Order the May 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - ...
May 28, 2024•24 min•Ep. 176
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Christopher Hoover of California Department of Public Health on his recent paper that explores how California's COVID-19 vaccine equity policies helped to avert cases, deaths, and hospitalizations in affected communities. Order the May 2024 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 you...
May 21, 2024•25 min•Ep. 175
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Maeve Wallace of Tulane University on her recent paper that explores the association between states' abortion restrictions and higher intimate partner homicide rates . Order the May 2024 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...
May 14, 2024•21 min•Ep. 174
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Charles Stoecker of Tulane University on his recent paper that explored how guaranteed cash incentives helped boost COVID-19 vaccinations among young adults in West Virginia. Order the May 2024 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...
May 07, 2024•22 min•Ep. 173
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Alison Stuebe of University of North Carolina School of Medicine on her recent analysis paper exploring what steps to take to cultivate vital conditions for perinatal well-being and how this can lead to a sustained commitment to reproductive justice. Order the "Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is...
Apr 30, 2024•28 min•Ep. 172
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Amy Stiffarm of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: The Montana Coalition on her recent paper that explores strategies to support perinatal mental health by collaborating with tribal communities in Montana . Order the "Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it t...
Apr 23, 2024•30 min•Ep. 171
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jessica Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco on her recent paper that explores the perspectives of interprofessional clinicians and what the best approach is to integrating mental health into perinatal care . Order the "Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and...
Apr 16, 2024•25 min•Ep. 170
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Tova Walsh of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on her recent paper that explores perinatal mental health and the inclusion of fathers at the local, state, and national levels. Throughout their conversation, Walsh identifies recommendations that could lead to more inclusive approaches that aim to improve parental mental health as well as health outcomes for fathers, mothers,...
Apr 09, 2024•23 min•Ep. 169
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Emily Dossett of the University of Southern California and Karen Tabb Dina of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Social Work about their roles as theme issue advisers for the April 2024 Health Affairs issue focused on perinatal mental health and well-being. The authors also provided an overview paper that explores the theme and identifies specific policie...
Apr 02, 2024•33 min•Ep. 168
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Amanda Chen of Harvard University on her recent paper that identifies major gaps and discrepancies in new CMS nursing home ownership data . From the insights provided by Chen and coauthors, they highlight that transparent ownership data is fundamental to understanding the adequacy of public payments to provide patient care, enable policy makers to make timely decisions, and ev...
Mar 26, 2024•25 min•Ep. 167
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Courtney Baird of Brown University on her recent paper that explores how county-level mandates were generally effective at slowing COVID-19 transmission . Through their research, Baird and coauthors discovered strong evidence for the overall protective effect of mask mandates and, to a lesser degree, anti-congregation policies. Order the March 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Cu...
Mar 19, 2024•29 min•Ep. 166
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Sarah Gordon of the Department of Health and Human Services and Boston University on her recent paper that explores lessons from the continuous enrollment provision of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 . Those provisions led to an increase in the rates of continuous coverage for one year postpartum, and they eliminated the large rates of disenrollment that hi...
Mar 12, 2024•23 min•Ep. 165
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews John Bowblis of Miami University on his recent paper that explores trends in the use of staffing agencies among nursing homes. Through this study, Bowblis and coauthors observed an increased reliance on these agencies for direct care nursing due to chronic staff shortages. Order the March 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely a...
Mar 05, 2024•21 min•Ep. 164
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Kierra Barnett of Nationwide Children's Hospital on her recent paper that details the history of discriminatory policies in the Ohio Neighborhood of Linden and what impacts they've had on housing as well as maternal and infant health. Order the "Housing and Health" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to k...
Feb 27, 2024•24 min•Ep. 163
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Sandra Newman of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on her recent paper that explores the measurable health and related benefits of housing vouchers to families. The benefits observed included parental stress reduction, improved cost burdens, neighborhood safety as well as many other impacts. Order the "Housing and Health" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, ...
Feb 20, 2024•27 min•Ep. 162
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Ingrid Gould Ellen of the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service on how neighborhood environments can affect health and health equity . The discussion also considers how interventions at the neighborhood level could advance health equity. Order the "Housing and Health" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd...
Feb 13, 2024•26 min•Ep. 161
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Michael Mayer of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program on his recent paper that explores the impacts of encampment clearings on the homeless population in Boston and how transitional harm reduction housing provided a unique opportunity for former encampment residents. Order the "Housing and Health" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our cont...
Feb 06, 2024•28 min•Ep. 160
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Ashley M. Fox of the University at Albany, SUNY on her recent paper exploring substantial disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake and identifying unmet immunization demand in low- and middle-income countries. Order the "Global Lessons From COVID-19" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. ...
Jan 30, 2024•22 min•Ep. 159
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Tse Yang Lim of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on his recent paper that explores why similar policies resulted in different COVID-19 outcomes and how responsiveness as well as culture influenced mortality rates. Order the "Global Lessons From COVID-19" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to kee...
Jan 23, 2024•27 min•Ep. 158
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Cristian Herrera of The World Bank on his recent paper which sought to identify disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to routine health care services and how eight Latin American and Caribbean countries responded. Order the "Global Lessons from COVID-19" issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it...
Jan 16, 2024•30 min•Ep. 157
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . This episode was originally published in April 2023. Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Chip Kahn from the Federation of American Hospitals on his recent paper where he and co-authors argue that CMS hospital value-based programs should be refined to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes. Order the August 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - a...
Dec 27, 2023•29 min•Ep. 144
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . This episode was originally published on July 19, 2022. It's well known that the United States spends much more than other high-income countries on health care, the most recent estimates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published in Health Affairs show that nearly a fifth of US GDP is spent on health care services. It's perhaps somewhat less well known that health outcomes lag those of many other countries. Lif...
Dec 19, 2023•26 min•Ep. 93
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . This episode was originally published on January 10, 2023. Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Deepak Palakshappa, associate professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine on his paper in the January 2023 issue examining the relationship between food insecurity and health care expenditures in families. Order the January 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available ...
Dec 12, 2023•23 min•Ep. 115
