Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Paige Nong of the University of Minnesota about her recent paper that evaluates and explores the current use of artificial intelligence and predictive models in US hospitals . Order the January 2025 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 ou...
Jan 28, 2025•27 min•Ep. 203
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . A Health Podyssey is taking a holiday break. We will return to regular production on January 14, 2025. Until that time, enjoy a special series we created on our other podcast, Health Affairs This Week . In this special series, Rob Lott gets an update on health policy briefs surrounding the release of our theme issue on housing and health , which was released in February of this year. In this episode, Health Affairs ' Rob Lott int...
Dec 24, 2024•18 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Guest: Philip Alberti, Founding Director, AAMC Center for Health Justice & Senior Director, Health Equity Research & Policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Philip Alberti from the AAMC to discuss health outcomes and what it means to achieve health equity across sectors. This season is sponsored by Deloitte. Learn more ...
Dec 18, 2024•41 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . A Health Podyssey is taking a holiday break. We will return to regular production on January 14, 2025. Until that time, enjoy a special series we created on our other podcast, Health Affairs This Week . In this special series, Rob Lott gets an update on health policy briefs surrounding the release of our theme issue on housing and health , which was released in February of this year. In this episode, Health Affairs ' Rob Lott int...
Dec 17, 2024•16 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Guest: Andrew Winn, Executive Director, Insight Garden Program Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Andrew Winn from the Insight Garden Program about the relationship between the environment and people in incarcerated spaces and access to nature as a human right. This season is sponsored by Deloitte. Learn more about Deloitte's work with Drivers of Health or the Deloitte Health Equity ...
Dec 11, 2024•40 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . A Health Podyssey is taking a holiday break. We will return to regular production on January 14, 2025. Until that time, enjoy a special series we created on our other podcast, Health Affairs This Week . In this special series, Rob Lott gets an update on health policy briefs surrounding the release of our theme issue on housing and health , which was released in February of this year. In this episode, Health Affairs ' Rob Lott int...
Dec 10, 2024•16 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Guest: Sarah Hemminger, Co-Founder and CEO, Thread Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Sarah Hemminger of Thread about social isolation and wellbeing, particularly for young people. They discuss innovative ways to connect people and achieve transformational change. This season is sponsored by Deloitte. Learn more about Deloitte's work with Drivers of Health or the Deloitte Health Equi...
Dec 04, 2024•44 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . A Health Podyssey is taking a holiday break. We will return to regular production on January 14, 2025. Until that time, enjoy a special series we created on our other podcast, Health Affairs This Week . In this special series, Rob Lott gets an update on health policy briefs surrounding the release of our theme issue on housing and health , which was released in February of this year. In this episode, Health Affairs ' Rob Lott int...
Dec 03, 2024•16 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Guest: Alex Keuroghlian, Director, Division of Education and Trainings, The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Alex Keuroghlian from Fenway Health about the role that identity plays in the health care workforce. They also discuss best practices for creating safe spaces of care for LGBTQIA+ populations and health policies critical to providing nondiscri...
Nov 27, 2024•50 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Richard Hughes IV of Epstein Becker Green and George Washington University about his recent paper that reviewed school-entry vaccine policies on a state level and observed how the responses to federal recommendations varied. Order the November 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. ...
Nov 26, 2024•22 min•Ep. 202
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Guest: Kimberly Driggins, Executive Director, Washington Housing Conservancy Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Kimberly Driggins from the Washington Housing Conservancy about the connections between housing security, economic mobility, and health outcomes. They also explore what it will take to reinvent an equitable, anti-racist housing system. This season is sponsored by Deloitte. ...
Nov 20, 2024•45 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jared Walker of Dollar For about his recent paper that explores the widely varying criteria amongst US nonprofit hospitals to determine who qualifies for free and discounted charity care. Order the November 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 t...
Nov 19, 2024•24 min•Ep. 201
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Guest: Dion Dawson, Chief Dreamer and CEO, Dion's Chicago Dream In the first episode of the second season of Research and Justice For All , host Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Dion Dawson from Dion's Chicago Dream about innovative ways to address food insecurity. They also explore the nonprofit industrial complex and the systemic link between hunger and profit in the US. This sea...
Nov 13, 2024•43 min
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Welcome to the 200th episode of A Health Podyssey ! For our 200th episode, Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil invites Leemore Dafny of the Harvard Business School back to the program to discuss vertical integration in the health care sector , observations on what impacts it may have on the future state of markets, and what the regulatory response has been so far. Dafny joined us for our 100th episode discussing her resear...
Nov 12, 2024•38 min•Ep. 200
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Janice Jhang of Harvard University about her recent paper that explores how regulatory and market forces are driving adoption of biosimilars. Order the November 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 publication Forefront and p...
Nov 05, 2024•28 min•Ep. 199
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Naomi Zewde of the University of California, Los Angeles about her recent paper exploring how high-deductible health insurance plans may exacerbate racial and ethnic wealth disparities . Order the October 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 ...
Oct 29, 2024•24 min•Ep. 198
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Avni Gupta of the Commonwealth Fund about her recent paper that explores cost-associated unmet dental, vision, and hearing needs among low-income Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries. Order the October 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 ou...
Oct 22, 2024•25 min•Ep. 197
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Allison Hoffman of University of Pennsylvania about her recent paper that explores opportunities to simplify Medicaid home and community-based services in the age of rebalancing. Order the October 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...
Oct 15, 2024•38 min•Ep. 196
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Pragya Kakani of Cornell University about her recent paper exploring the association between Medicare Part D protected-class policy and lower drug rebates . Order the October 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 publication F...
Oct 08, 2024•22 min•Ep. 195
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Dr. Jay Bhatt , Managing Director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and the Deloitte Health Equity Institute , to highlight the upcoming season of Research & Justice For All that focuses on social drivers of health and the role that Deloitte has played in pursuing health equity goals across the life sciences and health care industry. Before the second season of R...
Oct 01, 2024•28 min•Ep. 194
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Melissa Aldridge of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and James J. Peters Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center about her recent paper exploring the increasing trend of private equity acquisitions of hospices and how ownership structures still remain complex and opaque. Order the September 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is f...
Sep 24, 2024•21 min•Ep. 193
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Andrew Feher of Department of Health Care Access and Information about his recent paper exploring how the incorporation of email reminders saw increases in eligibility verification and continued subsidy receipt for enrollees in California's Affordable Care Act marketplace. Order the September 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is free...
Sep 17, 2024•24 min•Ep. 192
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Benedic Ippolito of American Enterprise Institute about his recent paper exploring how expanding Medicare coverage of anti-obesity medicines could result in increased annual spending. Order the September 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 k...
Sep 10, 2024•29 min•Ep. 191
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jiani Yu of Cornell University about her recent paper that explores how telehealth use and delivery differs significantly by physician and practice characteristics . Order the September 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 pu...
Sep 03, 2024•21 min•Ep. 190
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Dongzhe Hong of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University on his recent paper that explores how patient and prescriber factors play into biosimilar uptake in the US. Order the August 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 dig...
Aug 27, 2024•23 min•Ep. 189
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Kamyar Nasseh of the American Dental Association on his recent study that identifies the growing role of private equity in dental practices. Order the August 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 publication Forefront and podc...
Aug 20, 2024•21 min•Ep. 188
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Sanjay Basu of Waymark on his recent study that considers a potential risk of perpetuating health disparities with the continued utilization of cost-effectiveness analyses to inform health care and public health policy decisions. Order the August 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that wa...
Aug 13, 2024•25 min•Ep. 187
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Brandy Lipton of the University of California, Irvine on her recent paper exploring how most state Medicaid programs offer coverage for routine eye exams for adults, but noticeable coverage discrepancies of other routine vision care services remain. Order the August 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd lik...
Aug 06, 2024•24 min•Ep. 186
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jennifer Kao of the University of California Los Angeles on her recent paper that explores the impact of the Food and Drug Administration's breakthrough therapy designation program on the reduction of late-stage drug development time. 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...
Jul 30, 2024•23 min•Ep. 185
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter . Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Christina Andrews of the University of South Carolina on her recent paper that explores how substance use disorder benefits vary across Medicaid managed care plans (MCP) and better understand the role states play in coverage activities. 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 th...
Jul 23, 2024•29 min•Ep. 184
