A Health Podyssey

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Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews University of Massachusetts' Linda Long-Bellil on an overview paper she and co-authors published in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs. Using a biopsychosocial definition of disability, the authors found that health disparities among people with disabilities exist along race, gender and sexual orientation lines.

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Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Rice University's Madeline Smith-Johnson on a paper in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs assessing rates of disability among transgender and cisgender adults.

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Health Affairs thanks the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their financial support of this issue.

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Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Northwestern University's Tara Lagu on the paper she published in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs examining physicians attitudes toward patients with disabilities.

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Health Affairs thanks the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their financial support of this issue.

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Alan Weil interviews Aliza Gordon from Elevance Health on her and coauthors' recently published paper in the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs comparing trends in provider charges for surprise billing between two states, New York and California, which have different mechanisms for setting surprise bill payment levels.

Order the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs for research on nurses, care delivery, pharmaceuticals, and more.

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Alan Weil interviews Eric Roberts from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health to discuss his and colleagues recent research comparing the experiences of dual eligibles enrolled in D-SNPs with those enrolled in Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare.

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Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Michael Barnett from Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss Michael and coauthors recent research on assessing trends in the supply of mental health care practitioners, including psychiatrists and nurse practitioners serving Medicare enrollees.

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On our 100th episode, Leemore Dafny from Harvard Business School joins Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil to discuss her recent research published in Health Affairs examining donations made by pharmaceutical manufacturers to patient assistance charities based on an analysis of drug spending among Medicare Advantage enrollees.

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Today, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil takes an Excursion with Dr. Toyin Ajayi, co-founder and CEO of Cityblock Health.

Dr. Ajayi is a primary care doctor and an entrepreneur. She co-founded a company with a multi-billion-dollar valuation based on meeting the needs of patients, many with quite complex needs, in their communities.

Listen to Alan Weil and Toyin Ajayi talk about building a health care business that focuses on historically underserved populations, what inspired Dr. Ajayi's work, what challenges she has overcome, where Cityblock is heading, and more.

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As the COVID-19 epidemic hit the United States, New Jersey was an early hotspot with medical offices closing down, people encouraged to stay at home, and extreme pressure on the health system.

The state of New Jersey adopted emergency rules to permit providers from out of state to care for people in New Jersey. This had many implications.

Ann Nguyen from Rutgers University joins A Health Podyssey to discuss what happens when you suspend interstate barriers to medical practice.

Nguyen and coauthors published a paper in the August edition of Health Affairs exploring the results of a survey administered to practitioners who received licenses through New Jersey's COVID-19 temporary emergency licensure program.

They found that these practitioners met two very important needs: urgent hospital-based care and telehealth-based care.

Order the August 2022 issue of Health Affairs for research on spending, payment, and more.

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Today, nearly 40 million Americans are living with type 2 diabetes, which is more than a 40 percent increase from just a decade ago.

Black, Hispanic, American Indian, and Alaskan native adults are much more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to develop diabetes and to die from the disease. Even as there have been important medical advances associated with diabetes, the burden of the disease continues to climb.

How can we address the growing burden of diabetes?

Mohammed Ali from Emory University joins A Health Podyssey to discuss his overview he and coauthors published in the July 2022 edition Health Affairs on diabetes.

Ali and coauthors report that the fragmented health care system in the US is a primary reason for our poor diabetes outcomes and high levels of inequity.

Ali's overview was part of a six-paper cluster of research on type 2 diabetes, all of which were published in the July 2022 issue of Health Affairs.

Order the July 2022 issue of Health Affairs for research on type 2 diabetes and more.

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