Health Affairs This Week

Jan 31 2025 197 ep. 15 mins 73
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Health Affairs This Week places listeners at the center of health policy’s proverbial water cooler. Join editors from Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy research, and special guests as they discuss this week’s most pressing health policy news. All in 15 minutes or less.

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Biden's Final Food & Health Policies

Jan 31 2025 13 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Ellen Bayer to the program to examine the US Food & Drug Administration's most recent work on food and nutrition policy, as well as what was done in the final days of the Biden administration and where things stand today.Health Affairs will be releasing a theme iss

Health Policy at a Crossroads: Trump's First Week w/ Katie Keith

Jan 23 2025 20 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Deputy Editor Chris Fleming and Katie Keith of Georgetown Law to the program to discuss what to watch for in 2025 as the Trump administration takes office and what that could mean for future health policy regulations.Katie Keith helped us kickoff a new Health Affairs Forefront serie

New Year, New Hospital Price Transparency Requirements

Jan 16 2025 14 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Leslie Erdelack back to the program to discuss the latest hospital price transparency requirements that began in 2025, how many hospitals are actually following these regulations, and what effect noncompliance has on consumers' access to health care.Check out a recentl

The Scope of Medicare Fraud

Jan 09 2025 15 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Happy New Year!Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott back to the program to explore Medicare fraud, how prevalent it is, who's most at risk, and what measures are being taken to protect Medicare beneficiaries.Health Affairs just released our January 2025 issue on Medicare, Care Delivery, Me

Holly Jolly Health Expenditures

Dec 19 2024 14 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Leslie Erdelack back to the program to discuss the recently released 2023 health care spending report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).Learn more about the report from our ahead-of-print article from Anne B. Martin and colleagues from CMS.Last

A Disproportionate Share: The Future of Safety Net Hospitals & Payment Policies

Dec 11 2024 23 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs This Week is off for a few weeks. We will return for a special episode in December before returning to our regular schedule in January 2025.For the next few weeks, we present the three-part A Disproportionate Share, a podcast from NYC Health + Hospitals's Michael Shen, a primary care doctor and Chief Cr

A Disproportionate Share: A Complex Patchwork of Supplemental Payments

Dec 04 2024 17 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs This Week is off for a few weeks. We will return for a special episode in December before returning to our regular schedule in January 2025.For the next few weeks, we present the three-part A Disproportionate Share, a podcast from NYC Health + Hospitals's Michael Shen, a primary care doctor and Chief Cr

A Disproportionate Share: Meditations on Safety Net Hospitals & How We Pay For Them

Nov 26 2024 18 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs This Week is off for the next three weeks. We will return for a special episode in December before returning to our regular schedule in January 2025. For the next three weeks, we present the three-part A Disproportionate Share, a podcast from NYC Health + Hospitals's Michael Shen, a primary care doctor

Medicare Shared Savings Program Mints $2B Win for Value-Based Care w/ Frank McStay

Nov 21 2024 16 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs' Jeff Byers is joined by Frank McStay of Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy to discuss the results of a recent CMS report that explores the impacts of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) in 2023 and beyond. Health Affairs’s Research and Justice For All podcast returns for its second sea

How the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Will Impact Family Caregivers w/ Jason Resendez

Nov 14 2024 22 mins  
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs' Jeff Byers is joined by Jason Resendez, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, to discuss the recent finalization of CMS's 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and how these policies will impact family caregivers and the integration of these individuals into the health care system.