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Health Affairs This Week — 283 episodes
Prior Authorization's Next Era: CMS Reform, AI, and Faster Approvals
Is Medicare-Medicaid Integration Working? Depends On Who You Ask
The $22 Billion Surprise Inside the No Surprises Act | Jack Hoadley
The Business of Autism: Private Equity, Medicaid & the Cost of Care
Medicare Advantage's $16 Billion Quality Bonus Program: Litigation, Reform, and Rising Costs
AI and the Future of Patient Empowerment
When Academic Research Meets The Attention Economy
BEST OF: Future of Primary Care: Bright or Broken? w/ Troyen Brennan
Health Research Funding Suddenly Cut: Dr. Aaron Carroll Explains
BEST OF: The Great Health Care Vision Board (Stacie Dusetzina)
BEST OF: CMS's 10-Year Value-Based Primary Care Experiment
BEST OF: Is Value-Based Payment Failing U.S. Healthcare? | Andrew Ryan
Why Healthcare Costs Are Rising in America: The $9 Trillion Outlook for 2025 and Beyond
Medicaid Work Requirements: Who’s Affected and What’s at Stake
Will the Rural Health Transformation Fund Deliver?
Inside CVS Caremark: The Role of PBMs in Drug Costs & Access | SPONSORED
Will the Medicare ACCESS Model Spark the Next Health Tech Gold Rush?
Policy Changes Reshaping Family Caregiving
Why Teens Are Turning to AI for Mental Health | Caroline Figueroa
How the Healthcare Workforce Is Responding to New Aging Policies | Age-Friendly Health Series
Abortion Access In The High Court, Again | Katie Keith
How the One Big Beautiful Bill Changes Medicaid for Older Adults and State Health Policy
When Screening Guidelines Shift: Impacts on Healthcare Access & Use
Healthcare Price Transparency 2.0: Proposed Federal Updates Explained
New Prior Authorization Proposals: Implications for Prescription Drug Access
The FY 2027 HHS Budget Proposal: Changes, Cuts, and Investments
Health Policy Roundup: ACA Reform, MedPAC & Conversion Therapy in the Courts
2027 Medicare Advantage Final Payment Rule: Key Changes Explained | David Meyers
Abandon High‑Deductible Health Plans Linked to Health Spending Accounts | Jeanne Lambrew
Innovation, Consumers, and How We Get to Better Health Care | Halle Tecco
Medicare Advantage Payment & Coding Fights Intensify
FDA & Rare Disease Drugs: Why Policy and Politics Are Heating Up
State of the Union Healthcare Policy Breakdown
Healthcare Storytelling and Digital Health Investment Trends | Christina Farr
Sweeping Affordable Care Act Changes Proposed for 2027 (Katie Keith)
2025 Dietary Guidelines: Protein, Policy, and the Ultra-Processed Foods Problem
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reforms Are (Finally) Afoot
What Health Policy Katie Keith Is Watching In 2026
Behind Epic's Latest Antitrust Lawsuit (Gabriel Perna)
It's Not the Prices, Stupid. Michael Chernew on US Health Expenditures
BEST OF: Power and Its Impact on Medicaid w/ Jamila Michener
BEST OF: What's Happening with Value-Based Insurance Design? w/ Mark Fendrick
BEST OF: Medicare Physicians Are Getting a Raise...But At What Cost?
BEST OF: US Health Spending Projections Back on the Rise w/ Michael Chernew
BEST OF: The Big Beautiful Bill: A New Era for Health Policy? w/ Katie Keith
Keeping ACO Models Accountable
How Are States Even Affording Health Care Costs?
CMS Drug Price Negotiation Guidance Updates with Rachel Sachs
Why the U.S. Healthcare System Is Unwell | Allison Oakes
Pharmaceutical Tariffs Explained: The Will-They-Won’t-They Story of 2025
Government Shutdown: Health Policy Back in the Political Crossfire
Physician Autonomy in Decline: The Rise of Deprofessionalization w/ Yul Ejnes
Make America Healthy Again...Again
An ACA Supreme Court Case May Have Created an HHS Power Paradox w/ Carmel Shachar
The Downstream Effects of Politics & Policy on Health Decisions
Supreme Court Upholds NIH’s Termination of $800M in Grants w/ Katie Keith
PBM Laws & State Reforms: Are Big Changes Coming?
The Politics & Business of mRNA Vaccine Investment Cuts
Losing Public Health Data: What’s at Risk w/ Aaron Carroll
HR Policies Health Care Needs to Know Right Now w/ Ryan Golden
Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits: What We've Learned
Back In Our Budget Reconciliation Bag w/ Katie Keith
FDA Vague Efforts to Scale Generative AI Internally By End of June
Andrew Ryan on State Affordability Standards' Impact on Hospital Prices and Insurance Premiums | A Health Podyssey
The Digital Health Industry is So Back w/ Christina Farr
Thomas Buchmueller on Prescription Coverage After Medicaid Unwinding | A Health Podyssey
Trump's Deregulation Era & The Big Budget Reconciliation's Health Care Impact w/ Katie Keith
A Health Podyssey: Caitlin Carroll on Hospital Closures Ultimately Causing Higher Prices
What's On Farzad Mostashari's Mind for Health Policy
A Health Podyssey: Eric Topol on the Science of Super-Aging and Longevity
How Federal Restructuring Affects Data That Affects Health Policy
2020 Vs. 2025: What's Different and the Same in Health Policy - Our 200th Episode!
Whether Health Care M&A is Cooked Or Not w/ Bob Herman
Food, Nutrition, & Health: A Different Type of Hunger w/ Heather Thomas
Elizabeth Popp-Berman on How the U.S. Can Build a Just Political Economy for Health
Where Tariffs and Health Care Meet w/ David Simon
Food, Nutrition, & Health: Behind the Pages
The Politics of Alternative Payment Models
Food, Nutrition & Health: Food Support Programs w/ Diane Schanzenbach
What We Talk About When We Talk About SNAP w/ Seth Berkowitz
Food, Nutrition, & Health: Water Insecurity w/ Na'Taki Osborne Jelks
Health Policy at a Crossroads: Trump's First 50 Days w/ Katie Keith
At the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Health Care w/ Brian Anderson
The Impact of Trump's Known Health Care Agenda w/ Rebecca Pifer
Victor Dzau on the Urgent Health Care Priorities Facing the Trump Administration
BREAKDOWN: Health Care Private Equity Federal Reports
The Scope of US Medical Debt Right Now w/ Kinika Young
Biden's Final Food & Health Policies
Health Policy at a Crossroads: Trump's First Week w/ Katie Keith
New Year, New Hospital Price Transparency Requirements
The Scope of Medicare Fraud
Holly Jolly Health Expenditures
A Disproportionate Share: The Future of Safety Net Hospitals & Payment Policies
A Disproportionate Share: A Complex Patchwork of Supplemental Payments
A Disproportionate Share: Meditations on Safety Net Hospitals & How We Pay For Them
Medicare Shared Savings Program Mints $2B Win for Value-Based Care w/ Frank McStay
How the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Will Impact Family Caregivers w/ Jason Resendez
Zachary Baron Shares What A Trump Presidency May Mean for Health Care
Health-Related State Ballot Measures On Deck This Election Season
Frontline Struggles from the Retail Health Clinic Market
Health Policy on the 2024 Presidential Campaign Trail
Medicare Advantage Star Ratings Continue to Fade but Market Marches On Into 2025
RERUN: Diving into the New CMS' National Health Expenditures Projections w/ Michael Chernew
Rachel Sachs Explains the FTC's Pharmacy Benefit Manager Lawsuit & PBM Reform
The Digital Transformation-Data Quality Puzzle w/ Brad Ryan of NCQA
The Evolution of Medicare Advantage's Supplemental Benefits
Parental Stress New Focus for US Surgeon General
FTC's National Noncompete Ban is Down But Is It Out?
Universal Basic Income, Health Equity & Social Democracy w/ Seth Berkowitz
A Peek Behind the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Curtain
The Increasing Cyber Risk of Health Care Data
PBMs. What Are They Hiding? w/ Stacie Dusetzina
HHS Proposes Requirements To Advance Maternal Quality Improvement Efforts
The Plan to Remove Medical Debt From Credit Reports
New Alzheimer's Drug Approval Expands Treatment Options — and Creates Coverage Questions
The Chevron Deference is Dead. What Now? w/ Andrew Twinamatsiko
Scene Report from AcademyHealth's ARM Conference
Why the Supreme Court Rejected a Challenge to Abortion Medication w/ Andrew Twinamatsiko
Breaking Down the CBO's Insurance Coverage Projections w/ Sabrina Corlette
Scene Report from CMS' Health Equity Conference
Obesity Medications & What You'll Pay For Them — If You Can Get Them w/ Stacie Dusetzina
Following the Rules: Nursing Facilities Staffing and Organ Transplants
FTC Voted to Ban Noncompetes. Will It Actually Happen? w/ Rebecca Pifer
What Walmart Health's Demise Says About Retail Health and Telehealth Markets
The Rise - and Future - of Medicare Advantage w/ Jack Hoadley
How the ACA Market Has Matured w/ Sabrina Corlette and Jason Levitis
The State of Antitrust & Private Equity in Health Care w/ Brent Fulton
Behind The Pages: Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being
Research and Justice For All: How the Private Sector Can Address Health Equity
Research and Justice For All: Leveraging Data to Drive Outcomes in Health Equity
Research and Justice For All: Mental Health and Health Equity
Research and Justice For All: Maternal Health and Health Equity
Research and Justice For All: How Health Equity Accreditation is Changing Health Care
Research and Justice For All: Health Care Role in Health Equity
Behind The Pages: Housing and Health
Michael Lens on Low-Density Zoning and Neighborhood Segregation
Ingrid Gould Ellen on Housing Mobility and Health
Craig Pollack on Low Income Housing Tax Credits
Corianne Scally Gives an Overview on Housing and Health
Behind the Pages: Global Lessons From COVID-19
Health Policy 2023 Wrapped
The AI Executive Order and Why Health Care Should Care
Getting Personal: Racism and Health Equity
Survey Says: Insurance Premiums Are Up
California Shares Insight Into Modern Health Care Workforce Relations
DTC Companies Double Down on Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits
Behind The Pages: Tackling Structural Racism In Health
The Impact of Medicaid Unwinding on Children's Health
Can the All-Payer Model Get AHEAD with New CMS Opp?
Audit of Nursing Home Staffing Standards in Progress by Biden Administration
CMS Enters the Octagon, Names 10 Drugs for Price Negotiation
A Shifting PBM Landscape?
The Long and Winding Road of Regulating Laboratory Developed Tests w/ Catherine Sharkey
FDA Comes Under Scrutiny
Biden Administration Continues Antitrust Crusade With New Merger Guidelines
Health Equity - Summer 2023 Edition
White House Looks To Trash "Junk" Insurance Plans
The Far-Reaching Health Care Impacts of the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decision
Sara Rosenbaum Goes Deep in the Weeds of Medicaid
LGBTQ+ Health Care Policies: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward?
How Health Care Fared in the Debt Limit Deal
Resident Physicians Turn To Strikes and Unions
Tom Insel on the Mental Health Crisis and Behavioral Health Care Reform
Lawrence Gostin on The End of COVID As We Know It
Kaiser, Geisinger and the Uncertain Future of Value-Based Care
Celebrating Health Equity
Sabrina Corlette on the Health of Health Reform
Abortion Pill Mifepristone Has Its Day(s) In Court
Melanie Bella on Medicaid Expansion and Beyond
The Controversy Around Pharmacy Benefit Managers
The Cost of Insulin
What the President's Budget Means for Health Care
A Seat For All: Building Health Equity Into Scholarly Programs
Health in US Prisons and Jails
Health Care Highlights From the 2023 State of the Union Address
Road Mapping Health Care Spending and Value
Medicare Advantage Targeted By CMS For Overpayment
The Problem With Provider Directories
In The News: Child Vaccination Rates, Veterans Care and...Gas Stoves?
Leqembi & Health Equity
No Health Care News Shortage in 2023
2022 Health Policy Year in Review
Will Naloxone Become An Over-The-Counter Drug?
Tackling Bias in Health Care Algorithms
Midterm Health Care Ballot Initiative Review
It's Open Enrollment Season
FDA's Controversial Pregnancy Drug Decision, Explained
A Health Podyssey: Tara Lagu on Physicians’ Attitudes on People With Disabilities
Disability and Health Spotlight: Art Enables
Behind the Pages: Disability and Health Issue
Health Policy Litigation: A Quick Tour on Current Events
Improving Health Outcomes for Dual Eligibles
Walmart and Retailers Continue To Make Moves in Health Care
State of the Health Care Workforce
Moderna Fires Shots in mRNA Wars
CDC Looks To Reshape Itself
Why the Inflation Reduction Act is a Big Deal for Health Care
Monkeypox Updates w/ Syra Madad & Andrew Wallach from NYC Health+ Hospitals
New HEDIS Measures Emphasize Health Equity w/ Eric Schneider
ACA Anti-Discrimination Rule w/ Katie Keith
The 988 Lifeline, Mental Health, and More
Federal & State Health Policy Actions After Roe v. Wade Overturn
CMS Rule Recap: Rural Emergency Hospitals and Price Transparency
Budget Neutral Medicaid Demonstrations w/ Cindy Mann
LGBTQ+ & Public Health
Pharmacy Benefit Managers, the FTC & You
Headlines: Monkeypox, Medicare Trustees Report & Nursing Home Workforce Shortages
FDA Under the Microscope on User Fees and Baby Formula Shortage
Health Policy and Gun Violence
Tim Jost Previews Supreme Court Impacts On Medicaid Beneficiaries
FDA's Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes, Explained
Unpacking the Supreme Court Abortion Draft Decision
Headlines: Childhood Vaccinations, Title 42, and National Drug Control Strategy
A Health Podyssey: Stacie Dusetzina Shares Why Medicare Beneficiaries May Not Fill Specialty Drug Prescriptions
Advancing Health Equity in Health Policy & Publishing
Biden Wants to Fix The ACA's Family Glitch. What Is That? w/ Katie Keith
The Latest Trajectory of National Health Spending
Medical Debt Changes & Health Impacts
The Role of Private Equity In Health Care
Mike Chernew On Payment Reform: From Direct Contracting To ACO REACH
Decoding the State of the Union for Health Care
Navigating The COVID-19 Off-Ramp for Telehealth and Medicaid Policies
Galileo's Thomas Lee on Telehealth, Equity & Access To Care
Behind The Pages: Racism and Health Issue
California's Fight for Single-Payer Health Care
Michael Chernew Makes The Case for Payment Reform
Focusing On Mental Health In COVID-19 Pandemic Year Three
Health Care Staffing Woes Persist as Omicron Surges
Prescription Drug Policy, Drug Pricing & Aduhelm With Rachel Sachs
New National Health Spending Data and Introducing Health Affairs Forefront
A Year in Health Policy Review
Global Health Inequity: Examining Omicron Through The Lens of HIV/AIDS
The ACA and Health Policy at the Supreme Court with Katie Keith
Public Health In The Off-Year Election Wrap Up
Considering (And Making Sense Of) Health Spending
Diving Into WHO's Climate and Health Report Before The UN Climate Summit
What's Happening with the FDA Commissioner Appointment?
Zoning Policy is Health Policy
Behind the Pages: Perinatal Mental Health Issue
Hospital Specialty Pharmacies and 340B
The Fight to Expand Postpartum Medicaid — And Why It Matters
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Paid Sick Leave, and the Economy
Health Affairs' Health Equity Round-Up
On the Texas Abortion Ban Decision, Medicare's Insolvency & More with Katie Keith
Back To School Edition: COVID-19 Vaccines & Mask Mandates
Inside the Historic Boost for SNAP Food Assistance
The Public Transit-Health Connection
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill - What's in it for Health Care
COVID-19: The Latest on Federal Mask Guidance and Vaccine Mandates
Behind the Pages: July 2021 Issue on Borders, Immigrants & Health
New Biden Executive Order Targets Hospital Mergers & Drug Pricing, Renews Antitrust Focus
No Surprises Act: Known Impacts on Surprise Medical Bills & What's Next
Home-based Care Left Out of Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan
Unpacking Apple's health care efforts and digital health's overall maturity
Peering into the MedPAC crystal ball for the future of Medicare payments
Insights into FDA's controversial decision to approve a new Alzheimer's treatment drug
States are leading the way on the public option
Does the US have a drug innovation problem?
Behind the CDC’s new COVID-19 mask guidelines for those who are fully vaccinated
Three unanswered questions for telehealth's future
The next wave of federal food aid for children and families
Aggressive policing damages health equity and community health
Hospitals at large are failing at price transparency
What's the deal with hospital mergers?
A renewed effort to address the opioid epidemic
Drug pricing on the agenda for massive infrastructure bill
Elevating women's voices in health policy during Women's History Month
In addressing vaccine hesitancy, how the message is delivered matters
American Rescue Plan addresses the Affordable Care Act's unfinished business
What nursing home turnover means for quality of care
COVID-19 vaccine production is dramatically ramping up
What a $15 minimum wage could mean for population health
Breaking down the 2021 Momnibus bill
What is and isn't in the Biden executive order on Medicaid and the ACA
A call for health equity in scholarly publishing
More seats at the federal table for health equity
What could Medicaid and COVID-19 vaccine distribution look like under a Biden administration?
Health policy on the table in 2021 with democratic Congress
Overlooked health policy stories of 2020 - Part 2
Overlooked health policy stories of 2020 - Part 1
Snow can't stop the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain
Climate change and the future of health policy
Is a COVID-19 vaccine within reach?