Health Affairs

Article	Citations
Identifying Under- And Overutilization Patterns For Idaho Youth With Serious Emotional Disturbance	598
Medicare, COVID-19, And More	340
Increasing Access To Perinatal Mental Health Care: The Perinatal Psychiatry Access Program Model	256
Costly Barriers: A Student’s Struggle With Medicaid Access	250
Drug Pricing, Competition, And Regulation	147
Geography And Fentanyl: Explaining The Disproportionate Rise In Opioid Overdose Deaths Among Black Americans	106
Medicare Advantage Networks Include Few Black Or Hispanic Physicians, Making Concordant Care Inaccessible For Many	100
Trauma Center Hospitals Charged Higher Prices For Some Nontrauma Care Than Non–Trauma Center Hospitals, 2012–18	99
Empowering A New Kind Of Research Team To Study Substance Use	92
Adopting Weight-Based Dosing With Pharmacy-Level Stewardship Strategies Could Reduce Cancer Drug Spending By Millions	92
Controlling Spending For Health Care And Long-Term Care: Japan’s Experience With A Rapidly Aging Society	83
Health Insurance Coverage Projections For The US Population And Sources Of Coverage, By Age, 2024–34	79
Proposing A Racism-Conscious Approach To Policy Making And Health Care Practices	77
Structural Racism And Black Women’s Employment In The US Health Care Sector	75
Georgia’s Reinsurance Waiver Associated With Decreased Premium Affordability And Enrollment	74
Despite National Declines In Kidney Failure Incidence, Disparities Widened Between Low- And High-Poverty US Counties	73
The Impact Of COVID-19 On The Health Of Incarcerated Older Adults In California State Prisons	69
Cultivating Vital Conditions For Perinatal Well-Being And A Sustained Commitment To Reproductive Justice	68
Availability Of Adult Dental Plans In The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, 2016–23	68
Housing Status Changes Are Associated With Cancer Outcomes Among US Veterans	67
Accelerated Approval Of Cancer Drugs: No Economic Reward For Drug Makers That Conduct Confirmatory Trials	62
The Indian Health Service Is Associated With Higher-Quality Perinatal Care For American Indian And Alaska Native People	61
Community Power–Building Groups And Public Health NGOs: Reimagining Public Health Advocacy	59
Neighborhoods And Health: Interventions At The Neighborhood Level Could Help Advance Health Equity	58
High Job Flexibility And Paid Sick Leave Increase Health Care Access And Use Among US Workers	55

Disparities In The Quality Of Clinical Care Delivered To American Indian/Alaska Native Medicare Advantage Enrollees	54
Estimating The Impact Of Out-Of-Pocket Cost Changes On Abandonment Of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis	54
The Effect Of Labor Unions On Nursing Home Compliance With OSHA’s Workplace Injury And Illness Reporting Requirement	54
Food Insufficiency Increased After The Expiration Of COVID-19 Emergency Allotments For SNAP Benefits In 2023	51
Access Problems And Cost Concerns Of Younger Medicare Beneficiaries Exceeded Those Of Older Beneficiaries In 2019	51
Structural Inequities In The Adoption Of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Services By US Hospitals, 2000–20	48
Medicaid Expansion Lowered Uninsurance Rates Among Nonelderly Adults In The Most Heavily Redlined Areas	48
Race And Racial Perceptions Shape Burden Tolerance For Medicaid And The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program	47
Disability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008–19	47
Statement Of Ownership & Circulation	46
For Some Patients, Better Health Starts With Finding A Home	45
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Certifications: Higher-Volume Physicians Associated With Less Evidence Of Care Coordination	44
Pharmaceuticals, Private Equity, Child Health, And More	43
Prescription Digital Therapeutics: Devices	42
Ambulance Destinations, Race, And Ethnicity	42
Errata	42
Risk Adjustment, Insurance Markets, And More	41
Medicare Risk Adjustment: Goals, Reform Proposals, And New Frontiers	41
Demographic Variation In US Outpatient Hydroxychloroquine And Ivermectin Use During The COVID-19 Pandemic	41
Statement Of Ownership & Circulation	40
Loneliness Among Older Adults	40
Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Buprenorphine Receipt Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2015–19	37
Black, Hispanic, And Asian Adults In The US Had Substantially Lower Engagement On The Naloxone Care Cascade, 2024	37
COVID-19 Vaccination Of People Experiencing Homelessness And Incarceration In Minnesota	36
Changes In Net Prices And Spending For Pharmaceuticals After The Introduction Of New Therapeutic Competition, 2011–19	36
Health Care Costs Associated With Hospice Use For People With Dementia In The US	36
‘Housing First’ Increased Psychiatric Care Office Visits And Prescriptions While Reducing Emergency Visits	35
The Community As A Full Partner: A New Model For Public Health	35
California’s COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Policy: Cases, Hospitalizations, And Deaths Averted In Affected Communities	35
Adolescent Residential Addiction Treatment In The US: Uneven Access, Waitlists, And High Costs	34
Expanded Contraceptive Access Linked To Increase In College Completion Among Women In Colorado	34
After Risk-Adjustment Change, Dementia Diagnoses Increased In Medicare Advantage Relative To Traditional Medicare	34
Rapid Growth Of Remote Patient Monitoring Is Driven By A Small Number Of Primary Care Providers	34
The Effect Of Clinician Feedback Interventions On Opioid Prescribing	33
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Health Care Utilization And Expenditures In Adulthood	33
Perinatal Depression Associated With Increased Pediatric Emergency Department Use And Charges In The First Year Of Life	33
Coding-Driven Changes In Measured Risk In Accountable Care Organizations	33
Transforming Public Health Practice With Generative Artificial Intelligence	32
Can Innovative Financing Move The Needle On Health Equity?	32
Care Management For Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: The Roles Of Nurses, Pharmacists, And Social Workers	32
Health Insurance Coverage In Low- And Middle-Income Countries Remains Far From The Goal Of Universal Coverage	32
Serious Mental Illness Deserves Policy Priority	31
Africa Is Sliding Into Catastrophe Before Our Eyes	31
Saving Medicaid And Ourselves	30
How Industrial Policy Could Accelerate Innovation In The Life Sciences	29
Rural Hospitals Experienced More Patient Volume Variability Than Urban Hospitals During The COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020–21	29
Antidepressant Prescriptions Increased For Privately Insured People With Perinatal Mood And Anxiety Disorder, 2008–20	29
Disability And Health	29
Medicare Advantage Plans Pay Large Markups To Consolidated Dialysis Organizations	29
Children, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, And More	28

Variation And Changes In The Targeting Of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments	28
Medicare Part D Protected-Class Policy Is Associated With Lower Drug Rebates	28
Waiting For On-Call Care	28
Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments During Pregnancy Were Associated With Decreased Odds Of Adverse Birth Outcomes	28
Combining Patient Survey Data With Diagnosis Codes Improved Medicare Advantage Risk-Adjustment Accuracy	27
Resident Mortality And Worker Infection Rates From COVID-19 Lower In Union Than Nonunion US Nursing Homes, 2020–21	27
Integrating Maternity Care Through Bundled Payments In The Netherlands: Early Results And Policy Lessons	27
Use Of Social Determinants Of Health Z Codes Was Sparse, 2016–22	27
Health Savings Accounts No Longer Promote Consumer Cost-Consciousness	26
Subsidy Cliff Looms; Fixing The Family Glitch	26
US Nonprofit Hospitals Have Widely Varying Criteria To Decide Who Qualifies For Free And Discounted Charity Care	26
Mortal Systemic Exclusion Yielded Steep Mortality-Rate Increases In People Experiencing Homelessness, 2011–20	26
FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation Reduced Late-Stage Drug Development Time	26
COVID-19 Revealed Shortcomings Of The US Public Health System And The Need To Strengthen Funding And Accountability	26
Prescription Digital Therapeutics: Assertions	25
Drugs And Value	25
Mitigating Racial And Ethnic Bias And Advancing Health Equity In Clinical Algorithms: A Scoping Review	25
A Foundation For Health And Well-Being: Meaningful Employment	25
Measuring Racial Inequities In The Quality Of Care Across Oncology Practices In The US	25
A Strategy To Support Perinatal Mental Health By Collaborating With Tribal Communities In Montana	25
Workforce Composition In Private Equity–Acquired Versus Non–Private Equity–Acquired Physician Practices	25
To Profit Or Not? Lessons From The Insurance Front Lines	24
ETR	24
Comparing The Effects Of Nudges And Automatic Plan Switching On Choice Errors Among Low-Income Marketplace Enrollees	24
Minnesota Public Health Corps: A New Model For Building The Governmental Public Health Workforce	24
The Association Between Medicaid Adult Dental Coverage And Children’s Oral Health	23
Trends In The Use Of Treatment For Substance Use Disorders, 2010–19	23
Medicaid And Methadone For Opioid Use Disorder: Expanded Coverage Increased Distribution In 10 States, 2019–24	23
Foreign-Born Workers Made Up Half The Increase In The Direct Care Workforce In Home And Community Settings, 2012–22	23
COVID-19 Federal Funding To Health Centers: Tracking Distribution, Locations, And Patient Characteristics	23
Continuous Eligibility And Coverage Policies Expanded Children’s Medicaid Enrollment	23
Medigap Regulations Provide Protections For Beneficiaries, Especially After Health Shocks, But May Raise Premiums	22
Realities Of Revitalizing US Biomedical Research	22
ACO Investment Model Produced Savings, But The Majority Of Participants Exited When Faced With Downside Risk	22
Favorable Selection Among Dually Enrolled Beneficiaries In Private Medicare Plans	22
Maternal Contact With Child Protective Services Associated With Less Postpartum Care In Wisconsin, 2010–19	21
Benchmarking Changes And Selective Participation In The Medicare Shared Savings Program	21
Physicians’ Knowledge Of The ADA: The Authors Reply	21
Value-Based Purchasing Design And Effect: A Systematic Review And Analysis	21
Coverage Denials: Government And Private Insurer Policies For Medical Necessity In Medicare	21
QALYs In Health Resource Usage Decisions	21
Characteristics Of Medical Device Shortages In The US, 2006–20	21
Physician Practices With Robust Capabilities Spend Less On Medicare Beneficiaries Than More Limited Practices	21
Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare Differences: The Authors Reply	21
Losing Our Way In A Rare Disease Diagnostic Odyssey	20
Rhode Island’s Affordability Standards Led To Hospital Price Reductions And Lower Insurance Premiums	20
The Risk Of Perpetuating Health Disparities Through Cost-Effectiveness Analyses	20
US Sick Leave In Global Context	20
Increases In COVID-19 Vaccination Among NYC Municipal Employees After Implementation Of Vaccination Requirements	20
To The Best Friend Who Gave Up On Me, 20 Years Later	20
Intended And Unintended Outcomes After FDA Pediatric Antidepressant Warnings: A Systematic Review	20
Errata	20
Trends In Hospital Prices Paid By Private Health Plans Varied Substantially Across The US	20
Oregon Community Benefit Reform Influenced Not-For-Profit Hospitals’ Charity Care And Medical Debt Write-Off	20
Opioid Use Disorder Medicaid Waivers: The Authors Reply	20
Food Insecurity, Missed Workdays, And Hospitalizations Among Working-Age US Adults With Diabetes	19
Medicare Advantage: National Carriers Expand Market Share While Regional Carriers Without Affiliation Decline, 2012–23	19
Value-Based Payment Models In The Commercial Insurance Sector: A Systematic Review	19
The Relationships Among Cash Prices, Negotiated Rates, And Chargemaster Prices For Shoppable Hospital Services	19
In Medicaid Managed Care Networks, Care Is Highly Concentrated Among A Small Percentage Of Physicians	19
Medicare Advantage Enrollment Since The ACA: What The Projections Did Not Foresee	19
How Phantom Networks And Other Barriers Impede Progress On Mental Health Insurance Reform	19
Studies Of Prescription Digital Therapeutics Often Lack Rigor And Inclusivity	19
Dual-Eligible Nursing Home Residents: Enrollment Growth In Managed Care Plans That Coordinate Care, 2013–20	19
Health Insurance Coverage Among Black Immigrant Adults	19
Judicial Decisions Constraining Public Health Powers During COVID-19: Implications For Public Health Policy Making	19
COVID-19 Disruption To Routine Health Care Services: How 8 Latin American And Caribbean Countries Responded	18
Disparities In Diabetes-Related Lower Extremity Amputations In The United States: A Systematic Review	18
Estimated Savings From Extending Prescription Drug Inflationary Rebates To All Commercial Plans	18
Availability Versus Accessibility: Identifying COVID-19 Testing Deserts Across Massachusetts	18
Public Health During COVID-19 And More	18
Early OxyContin Marketing Linked To Long-Term Spread Of Infectious Diseases Associated With Injection Drug Use	18
National Health Expenditure Projections, 2022–31: Growth To Stabilize Once The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends	18
Negative Patient Descriptors: Documenting Racial Bias In The Electronic Health Record	18
Inequities In The Use Of High-Quality Home Health	18
Provider Relief Funds And Hospital Profits: The Authors Reply	18
Sick And Tired Of Being Excluded: Structural Racism In Disenfranchisement As A Threat To Population Health Equity	18
Beyond Research, Taking Action Against Racism	18
Buprenorphine Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder: Comparison Of Insurance Restrictions, 2017–21	18
ACA Changes Considered; Coverage Held Steady	18

Reimagining Public Health	18
Medicaid, Drug Pricing, Aging, And More	17
New Cancer Drug Approvals: Less Than Half Of Important Clinical Trial Uncertainties Reported By The FDA To Clinicians, 2019–22	17
Nursing Home Staffing: Share Of Immigrant Certified Nursing Assistants Grew As US-Born Staff Numbers Fell, 2010–21	17
Substantial Growth In Medicare Advantage And Implications For Reform	17
Trend Toward Older Maternal Age Contributed To Growing Racial Inequity In Very-Low-Birthweight Infants In The US	17
Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Via Community Resources: Lessons From Accountable Health Communities	17
Medicare Local Coverage Determinations: Evidence Quality Is Stronger For Covered Indications	17
The Costs Of Disparities In Preventable Heart Failure Hospitalizations In The US South, 2015–17	17
As Hospitals Restrict Visitors, What Constitutes A ‘Good Death’?	17
Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnoses Among Commercially Insured People Increased, 2008–20	17
Medicare, Cancer Care, And More	17
Four Opportunities To Revitalize The US Biomedical Research Enterprise	17
Understanding And Comparing Economic Assistance Models To Improve Food Security And Diet Quality: A Rapid Review	17
Bridging The Gap From Maternal Crises To Care	16
Hospitals Acquired By Private Equity Firms: Increased Postoperative Mortality For Common Inpatient Surgeries	16
After 50 Years, Health Professional Shortage Areas Had No Significant Impact On Mortality Or Physician Density	16
Supporting Formerly Incarcerated People With Recovery	16
Patients Receive Flexible And Accessible Care When State Workforce Barriers Are Removed	16
Perinatal Care Measures Are Incomplete If They Do Not Assess The Birth Parent–Infant Dyad As A Whole	16
Extended Postpartum Medicaid In Colorado Associated With Increased Treatment For Perinatal Mood And Anxiety Disorders	16
The Youth Mental Health Crisis In The US: Lack Of Political Will Poses The Greatest Barrier To Meaningful Action	16
Public Perceptions Of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies In Europe: Socioeconomic Status And Trust Were Factors	16
Standing Up For My Sister	16
Caring For The Body And Mind In Long-Term Care	15
Meeting Care Needs, Pharmaceuticals, And More	15
Racial And Ethnic Inequities In Postpartum Depressive Symptoms, Diagnosis, And Care In 7 US Jurisdictions	15
Financial Coaching Offers New Paths To A Healthy Future	15
Medicaid Payment For Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Prompts More Equitable Use	15
Economic Well-Being And Health: The Role Of Income Support Programs In Promoting Health And Advancing Health Equity	15
State Variations In Progress Toward Eliminating Disparities In Infant Mortality, 2007–19	15
Behavioral Health, Nursing Home Workforce, And More	15
State-Level Variation In Low-Value Care For Commercially Insured And Medicare Advantage Populations	15
State Mandates On Naloxone Coprescribing Associated With Short-Term Increase In Naloxone Codispensing	14
Reclaiming Ancestral Abundance	14
My Story Of Trauma And Reproductive Health	14
Neighborhood Police Encounters, Health, And Violence In A Southern City	14
Excess Deaths Will Continue In The United States Until The Root Causes Are Addressed	14
Street Medicine For OUD After Emergency Department Visit: The Authors Reply	14
Reduced Medicare Advantage Insurer Concentration Associated With Small Improvements In Market Outcomes, 2013–23	14
Reimagining Public Health: Mapping A Path Forward	14
Drug Coverage Policies And Clinical Guidelines Alignment: Most Coverage Decisions Include Additional Restrictions	14
Insights About The Opioid Crisis	14
Stipends From Hospitals To Emergency Medicine And Anesthesiology Clinicians Increased In California, 2002–21	14
Is It Working? Evaluating The First Round Of Medicare Drug Price Negotiations	14
Physician Compensation In Physician-Owned And Hospital-Owned Practices	13
State Eviction Moratoriums During The COVID-19 Pandemic Were Associated With Improved Mental Health Among People Who Rent	13
The COVID-19 Pandemic Led To A Large Decline In Physician Gross Revenue Across All Specialties In 2020	13
Growth In ACA-Compliant Marketplace Enrollment And Spending Risk Changes During The COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Tobacco Surcharges Associated With Reduced ACA Marketplace Enrollment	13
Coming Up Short: How Cancer Drug Shortages Affect Care	12
Promoting Access To Hospital Care In Rural Areas: Current Approaches And Ongoing Challenges	12
Differences In Debt Among Postgraduate Medical Residents By Self-Designated Race And Ethnicity, 2014–19	12
Loss Of Public Health Emergency Funds Challenges The Financial Viability Of Nursing Homes, Especially Not-For-Profit Facilities	12
Factors Influencing Rural Hospitals’ Decisions To Join An Alternative Payment Model: A Mixed-Methods Study	12
Advance Care Planning	12
Drugs Are Not Microchips: Whither Industrial Policy In The Life Sciences?	12
Increases In Physician Professional Fees In Private Equity–Owned Gastroenterology Practices	12
Health Benefits In 2024: Higher Premiums Persist, Employer Strategies For GLP-1 Coverage And Family-Building Benefits	12
Erratum	12
proc prun / roses	12
Medicaid: Increased Patient Access To MOUD In Residential Treatment Associated With Facility Openings And Closures, 2012–22	12
From Laggard To Leader: Why Health Care In The United States Is Failing, And How To Fix It	12
Association Between Medicaid Expansion And Closure Of Hospital-Based Obstetric Services	12
Ukraine: A Humanitarian Disaster With Long-Term Consequences	12
Reflections On Epidemiological Modeling To Inform Policy During The COVID-19 Pandemic In Western Europe, 2020–23	11
Increasing Insurance Choices In The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, 2018–21	11
Higher Rates Of Homelessness Are Associated With Increases In Mortality From Accidental Drug And Alcohol Poisonings	11
Spending, Payment, And More	11
Hospitals, Health Equity, And More	11
Oncology Drugs: The Authors Reply	11
Narrow Dialysis Networks In Medicare Advantage: Exposure By Race, Ethnicity, And Dual Eligibility	11
Tubal Sterilization And Vasectomy Increased Among US Young Adults After The Dobbs Supreme Court Decision In 2022	11
Expected Out-Of-Pocket Costs: Comparing Medicare Advantage With Fee-For-Service Medicare	11
Echoes Of Trauma: Post–Intensive Care Syndrome	11
Changes In Clinicians’ Participation Across Medicare Value-Based Payment Models, 2017–22	11
Trauma Activation Fees Vary Widely Across US Trauma Centers	11
Insurance Denials And Cost Sharing For PrEP Among Sexual And Gender Minority People	11
Housing And Health	11
Nursing Homes, Medicaid, Physicians, And More	11
Patent Challenges And Litigation On Inhalers For Asthma And COPD	11
Many Clinicians Implement Digital Equity Strategies To Treat Opioid Use Disorder	11
Abortion Restrictions Threaten Miscarriage Management In The United States	11
Telemedicine, Disparities, Pharmaceuticals, And More	11
Equity And Justice In Food As Medicine	11
Evaluating Medicaid Managed Care Network Adequacy Standards And Associations With Specialty Care Access For Children	11
Obstetric Care Access Declined In Rural And Urban Hospitals Across US States, 2010–22	11
Does Assisted Living Provide Assistance And Promote Living?	10
Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Failed To Achieve Hospital Readmission Reductions And Other Targets	10
Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Epidemiological, Social, And Economic Impact Of COVID-19 In Latin America And The Caribbean	10
Lack Of Persistent Coding In Traditional Medicare May Widen The Risk-Score Gap With Medicare Advantage	10
Benefit Design And Biosimilar Coverage In Medicare Part D: Evidence And Implications From Recent Reforms	10
Proposed Social Drivers Of Health Bonds Offer Promising Improvements But Face Many Challenges To Implementation	10
Trends In Self-Pay Charges And Insurance Acceptance For Abortion In The United States, 2017–20	10
A History Of The Impacts Of Discriminatory Policies On Housing And Maternal And Infant Health In An Ohio Neighborhood	10