Medicare Advantage's $16 Billion Quality Bonus Program: Litigation, Reform, and Rising Costs
Health Affairs Publishing's Jeff Byers welcomes Erica Socker of Georgetown University to the pod to discuss her recent Forefront article that explores how the Medicare Advantage quality bonus program ...
21 Aug 18min
AI and the Future of Patient Empowerment
In this episode of Health Affairs This Week, David Betts, founder and board chair at StoryFlight Labs, shares how his ALS diagnosis inspired him to launch StoryFlight Labs and develop Talk To Me Goose...
14 Aug 20min
When Academic Research Meets The Attention Economy
On this episode, Health Affairs Publishing's Jeff Byers gets meta and invites Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, authors of the new book How The Internet Disrupted Science, onto the podcast to discuss how m...
7 Aug 14min
BEST OF: Future of Primary Care: Bright or Broken? w/ Troyen Brennan
Health Affairs This Week is on vacation in July. We will return with new episodes in August 2026.This episode originally aired on October 25, 2025.Health Affairs This Week will return with new episode...
29 Jul 19min
Health Research Funding Suddenly Cut: Dr. Aaron Carroll Explains
We interrupt the summer break for this special "emergency pod" episode. Health Affairs Publishing's Jeff Byers welcomes Dr. Aaron Carroll, President and CEO of AcademyHealth, back to the pod to examin...
23 Jul 17min
BEST OF: The Great Health Care Vision Board (Stacie Dusetzina)
Health Affairs This Week is on vacation in July. We will return with new episodes in August 2026. This episode originally aired on January 21, 2026.On an emergency pod episode, Health Affairs' Jeff By...
22 Jul 20min
BEST OF: CMS's 10-Year Value-Based Primary Care Experiment
Health Affairs This Week is on vacation in July. We will return with new episodes in August 2026. This episode originally aired on June 23, 2023. Health Affairs' Marianne Amoss and Michael Gerber brea...
15 Jul 14min
BEST OF: Is Value-Based Payment Failing U.S. Healthcare? | Andrew Ryan
This episode originally aired on February 27, 2026.Health Affairs’ Jeff Byers welcomes Brown University's Andrew Ryan to the pod to discuss his recent Forefront article that explores whether value-bas...
8 Jul 19min
