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Upcoding Linked To Up To Two-Thirds Of Growth In Highest-Intensity Hospital Discharges In 5 States, 2011–19

Daniel Crespin et al.

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Price Increases Versus Upcoding As Drivers Of Emergency Department Spending Increases, 2012–19

Vivian Ho et al. (August 2023)

Trends In Treat-And-Release Emergency Care Visits With High-Intensity Billing In The US, 2006–19

Alexander T. Janke et al. (December 2022)

Hospital Service Offerings Still Differ Substantially By Ownership Type

Jill R. Horowitz and Austin Nichols (March 2022)

Holly Jolly Health Expenditures

Health Affairs This Week will be returning next week with all new episodes.

In the meantime, check out our final episode of 2024 featuring Jeff Byers and Leslie Erdelack discussing the recently released 2023 health care spending report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief Alan Weil To Step Down

Health Affairs announced this month that Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will leave his role at the end of the year.

Health Affairs has changed significantly during Weil’s more than 10-year tenure, including:

Launching a new open access journal, Health Affairs Scholar
Turning the widely read Health Affairs Blog into the indexed Health Affairs Forefront
Launching a membership program, Insider

To commemorate his contributions to Health Affairs, let's look back at a collection of the most popular episodes of A Health Podyssey.

Katie Keith Throws An ACA Birthday Party

April 2022

Seth Berkowitz Puts A Figure to Social Determinant Health Spending

March 2022

Jill Horwitz Questions the Role of Nonprofit Hospitals

March 2022

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