Robert Burke, Atul Gupta, and Rachel M. Werner revealed that Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program didn’t reduce hospital readmissions, but also didn’t increase mortality or delay needed care.
Research by Rebecca Arden Harris, David Mandell, Judith Long, and Jeanmarie Perrone found that easing take-home methadone restrictions did not lead to increased overdoses.
In an op-ed in MSNBC, Eric T. Roberts and colleagues at Penn, Harvard, and Yale projected that 51,000 lives per year could be lost if Congress moves forward with $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.
At our recent seminar, a panel of experts warned that the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to violence prevention programs are likely to reverse years of progress in reducing gun violence.
Experts at our seminar projected that the bill’s Medicaid cuts, shortened Affordable Care Act enrollment windows, and new administrative hurdles could result in more than 51,000 additional deaths each year.
A Conversation with Frances Lee, PhD, and Paul Offit, MD, moderated by Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD.
Virtual event open to the public.
IN THE MEDIA
“How Much Will You Save or Lose With Trump’s ‘Big’ Tax Bill?”Kent Smetters. Washington Post
“Protect Hospitals from Private Equity.”Elizabeth Salazar, Scott Lorch. Philadelphia Citizen
“Growing Number of Americans 55 and Older are Experiencing Homelessness. Health Workers Worry About the 'Most Vulnerable'.” Dennis Culhane. CBS News
“Health Insurance Change to Improve Service for 257 Million Americans.” Tom Baker.Newsweek
“The Department of Energy Is Quietly Slashing Disability Rights.” Jasmine Harris. Mother Jones
PUBLICATIONS
“Children’s Continuous Medicaid Eligibility During COVID-19 and Health Care Access, Use, and Barriers to Care.” Erica L. Eliason, Daniel B. Nelson, Jordan Wood, Doug Strane, Aditi Vasan. JAMA Health Forum
“Adverse Liver Outcomes, Cardiovascular Events, and Mortality in Steatotic Liver Disease.” Pedro Ochoa-Allemant, Rebecca A. Hubbard, David E. Kaplan, Marina Serper. JAMA Internal Medicine
“Peer and Patient Feedback to Increase Adherence to Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.” Anish K. Agarwal, Jeffrey P. Ebert, Ruiying Xiong, Zarina S. Ali, Daniel Lee, Frances Shofer, Yevgeniy Gitelman, David Do, Evan A. Spencer, Madeline Grenader, Fan Li, Michael O. Harhay, M. Kit Delgado.JAMA Surgery
“Was the Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines Globally Fair and Equitable?” Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Min Jung. American Journal of Public Health
“Mortality Outcomes for Survivors of Cancer With Food Insecurity in the US.” John C. Lin, Jiaxuan Sun, Ruiqi Yan, Lucy S. Wang, Anne Marie McCarthy, Guangyu Tong, Jaya Aysola. JAMA Health Forum
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