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Social Determinants of Health: Stretching Health Care’s Job Description

Providers and payers are being asked to tackle the ‘upstream’ causes of poor health. Medicaid managed care organizations are being asked to screen enrollees for social needs. Some targeted efforts have translated into cost savings and make sense in value-based arrangements. But are we asking the health sector to take on too much?

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Hospital Deaths From Opioids Soar

Morality rates for inpatient hospitalizations for opioid abuse quadrupled between 2000 and 2014, according to a study in Health Affairs. The mortality rates increased from 0.43% before 2000 to 2.02% in 2014. In 2016, 15,000 Americans died from heroin overdoses and 20,000 others died from overdoses from synthetic opioids.

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Hemlibra's Remarkable Efficacy A Beacon for Hemophilia Patients

Hemlibra demonstrates how far antibody science has progressed. Genentech’s drug, approved late last year, connects two clotting factors to prevent the devastating bleeds in hemophilia patients with inhibitors. The high price may be offset by avoided costs in patients with factor VIII inhibitors.

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Briefly Noted February 2018

Even though enrollment in consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) increased nearly sevenfold over the last 10 years, the plans did not “reduce spending on low-value health care services that offer unclear or no clinical benefit and represent a significant source of waste,” according to a study published…
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This Feel-Not-Good Book Must Be Read

Elisabeth Rosenthal has a unique perspective on what ails the American health care system. She is a physician turned journalist who has some firsthand knowledge about what takes place in American hospitals and doctor’s offices, although her Wikipedia entry makes a point of describing her as a “non-practicing physician.”

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Developmental disabilities for children and teens on the rise

The rate of developmental disabilities for children ages 3 to 17 in the United States rose from 5.76% in 2014 to 6.99% in 2016, according to the CDC. The prevalence of children who had been diagnosed with a developmental delay other than autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disability also increased from 3.57% to 4.55%.

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When Value Is in the Eye Of the Patient

Physicians and their charges have different ideas about what makes for good cancer care. Patient surveys help, but they need to be handled right.

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First-Day Use of Coronary Angioplasty Improves Heart Attack Outcomes

When it comes to heart attacks, additional health care spending was only weakly associated with lower case-fatality rates, according to a study of Medicare patients. What did make a difference to researchers was coronary angioplasty on the first day of heart attack patients’ hospitalizations.

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Parity Could Use Some Fixing, But at Least It Won’t Be Dismantled

Nonquantitative treatment limitations may be why care for mental health and substance abuse disorders isn’t keeping up with coverage gains.

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Medical Tourism: Once Ready for Takeoff, Now Stuck at the Gate

Consultants predicted it would be a major business. Large employers and insurers were experimenting with it. But medical tourism has not lived up to the heady expectations. The ACA and moderation of increases in health care costs cooled off interest. Besides, who really wants to go to an unfamiliar place for health care?

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CMS Tries 2 Approaches To Hike Primary Care Physician Pay

The questions: Should CMS increase pay to PCPs for services that they currently provide but are not compensated for, and pay for new services that CMS would like PCPs to perform? Or should CMS pay for demonstration projects that target high-need, high-cost Medicare beneficiaries? CMS’s answer, at least for the time being, is a bit of both.

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The three people in charge of the Amazon et al. health care thingamabob

Sarah Kliff at Vox had the best tweet about this morning’s announcement that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase were forming a new health care company. “Alexa, what is this new Amazon health care company?" https://t.co/oAAI0R4JQH — Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) January 30, 2018 The lack…
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Opioid Deaths Among Women Not Getting the Attention They Warrant

Deaths of women from opioid addiction spiked 400%, according to CDC data. Alison Colbert of Duquesne University argues for a gender-specific approach.

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With Trump Contraception Rules, Parties Trade Places in Courtroom

The plaintiffs are now defendants and vice versa in the drawn-out dispute over ACA birth control coverage.

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Aetna’s California Case Puts New Focus on Prior Authorization

The CNN story once again puts controversy about prior authorization into the spotlight. But is it necessary to review the entire medical record?

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