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Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Preventable Hospitalizations And ED Visits Five Years After ACA Medicaid Expansions

Asako S. Moriya, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Sujoy Chakravarty ([email protected]), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Medicaid expansions under the ...
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Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Creating A Separate Conversion Factor For Primary Care

In this piece, we explore reasons for creating a separate conversion factor within the MPFS, initially for advanced primary care management codes and eventually for a prospective payment to cover a ...
Health Affairs

Vertical Integration: Hospital Ownership Of Physician Practices Is Associated With Higher Prices And Spending

Laurence C. Baker is a professor of health research and policy at Stanford University, in California, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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“All I Do Is Win”: Why Beating Benchmarks Doesn’t Mean That ACOs Are Reducing Costs

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...
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Implications Of Public Policies For LGBTQI+ Population Health In The US

Anti-LGBTQI+ public policies overwhelmingly target youth and young adults, disrupting access to educational opportunities, social support, and health care services. Pro-LGBTQI+ policies such as ...