Mike Chernew On Payment Reform: From Direct Contracting To ACO REACH
Late last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its redesign of its Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model to its now-branded Accountable Care Organization (ACO...
11 Mars 202213min
Decoding the State of the Union for Health Care
Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Rob Lott outline President Joe Biden's health care aspirations outlined in his State of the Union Address, which includes information on COVID-19, health ...
4 Mars 202213min
Navigating The COVID-19 Off-Ramp for Telehealth and Medicaid Policies
Listen to Health Affairs' Ellen Bayer and Rob Lott discuss possible implications for health policies related to Medicaid and telehealth when the COVID-19 public health emergency sunsets.Related Links:...
25 Feb 202215min
Galileo's Thomas Lee on Telehealth, Equity & Access To Care
Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a report showing that outpatient telehealth use has decreased after an initial spike in use during the COVID-19 pandemic's early months. This week, a n...
18 Feb 202215min
Behind The Pages: Racism and Health Issue
“Racism is an uncomfortable subject for a lot of people in academia and academic publishing itself is part of the problem, in that a lot of journals including Health Affairs have neglected to name rac...
11 Feb 202212min
California's Fight for Single-Payer Health Care
This week, a major development in health care reform occurred in California.Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Rob Lott talk about the headlines in health policy news (including President J...
4 Feb 202214min
Michael Chernew Makes The Case for Payment Reform
This week on Health Affairs Forefront (formerly known as the Health Affairs Blog), Michael Chernew, director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at Har...
28 Jan 202214min
Focusing On Mental Health In COVID-19 Pandemic Year Three
DICLAIMER: This episode contains mentions of suicide, which some listeners may find harmful or disturbing. The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a light on the importance addressing mental health and behav...
21 Jan 20229min
