Dear John,

Heads up! We have an exciting edition of Health Affairs Insider Journal Club meeting next week.

On December 19, please join author Ashley Fox, an associate professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, for a detailed discussion on her paper about the substantial disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptakes and unmet immunization demands in low- and middle-income countries.

Micah Hartman and colleagues at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), including the National Health Expenditure Accounts Team, released their 2022 health care spending report this week.

The team finds that health care spending in the US grew 4.1 percent from 2021, reaching $4.5 trillion in 2022, which is a faster rate of growth than in 2021, but slower than 2020.

They determine that the rate of growth has become more consistent with the prepandemic average annual growth rate of 4.4 percent.

Among other findings, they determine that the health share of GDP returned to a nearly prepandemic level in 2022, although this result was partly influenced by economywide inflation. 

In 2022, the insured share of the population reached 92.0 percent (a historic high), as private health insurance and Medicaid enrollment continued to experience strong growth.

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Collaboration: A Catalyst for Optimal Care

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Advancing Community Health Worker Models In Health System Reforms: Policy Recommendations From The RADx-UP Initiative

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National Health Expenditures: Reading Past The Headlines

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CMS Must Obtain Clinician Input Today To Prevent Part D Access Barriers Tomorrow

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Orange Book Over-Declaration Of Pharmaceutical Patents: The Advantages Of Ex Ante Over Ex Post Review

Jorge L. Contreras and Arti K. Rai

How Will Draft Merger Guidelines Impact Health Care Markets?

Amy Y. Gu et al.

Medicaid Unwound: Disenrolled Deserve An Epilogue

J. Craig Wilson and Joseph W. Thompson

Unwinding Should Be A Call to Action To Fix Fragmented System

Jennifer Wagner et al.

TEFCA Live! The Future Of Network Interoperability Is Here

Micky Tripathi and Mariann Yeager

How Can Integrated Care Programs More Effectively Coordinate Care For Dually Eligible Individuals?

Nancy Archibald and Molly Knowles

Request For Submissions

We’re pleased to announce the continuation of our Forefront Series “Accountable Care for Population Health.”

This series features policy analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the state and federal levels to understand and advance models for accountable care.
 
Begun in early 2023, the series includes articles exploring the evidence base (and gaps in our knowledge) and the range of views on various key issues—all with the aim of enhancing the national conversation on accountable care and eliciting thoughtful responses from leaders in the public and private sectors.
 
Thanks to ongoing support from Arnold Ventures, we are able to reissue our call for submissions for this series. We will accept submissions until December 2024.  

Check out all of our currently open Call for Submissions, including our series on Medicare and Medicaid Integration as well as Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, on our Request for Abstracts page.
 
Questions, including those about the suitability of a particular topic, can be sent to [email protected]. 

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Breaking Barriers: Eisai’s Path Toward More Diverse Clinical Trials

Lana J. Weiner

Sponsored by Eisai Inc.