Health Affairs

Article	Citations
Medicare, COVID-19, And More	198
Costly Barriers: A Student’s Struggle With Medicaid Access	147
Empowering A New Kind Of Research Team To Study Substance Use	121
The Effect Of Labor Unions On Nursing Home Compliance With OSHA’s Workplace Injury And Illness Reporting Requirement	115
The Impact Of COVID-19 On The Health Of Incarcerated Older Adults In California State Prisons	111
Identifying Under- And Overutilization Patterns For Idaho Youth With Serious Emotional Disturbance	105
Georgia’s Reinsurance Waiver Associated With Decreased Premium Affordability And Enrollment	99
SSDI Beneficiaries Had Elevated Mortality During The 2-Year Waiting Period For Medicare, 2000–21	91
Rapid Disenrollment Rates Tripled For Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries, 2017–22	80
Medicare Advantage Star Rating Quality Gains Were Concentrated In A Narrow Set Of Clinical And Medication Measures, 2015–25	79
‘Most Favored Nation’ Drug Pricing Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come	79
Medicaid Expansion Lowered Uninsurance Rates Among Nonelderly Adults In The Most Heavily Redlined Areas	79
Race And Racial Perceptions Shape Burden Tolerance For Medicaid And The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program	69
Community Power–Building Groups And Public Health NGOs: Reimagining Public Health Advocacy	68
Housing Status Changes Are Associated With Cancer Outcomes Among US Veterans	67
Disability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008–19	64
Controlling Spending For Health Care And Long-Term Care: Japan’s Experience With A Rapidly Aging Society	63
Medicare Advantage Networks Include Few Black Or Hispanic Physicians, Making Concordant Care Inaccessible For Many	60
Private Equity Acquisition Of Substance Use Treatment Centers Increases Probability Of Public Health Insurance Acceptance	57
Access Problems And Cost Concerns Of Younger Medicare Beneficiaries Exceeded Those Of Older Beneficiaries In 2019	56
Accelerated Approval Of Cancer Drugs: No Economic Reward For Drug Makers That Conduct Confirmatory Trials	55
Geography And Fentanyl: Explaining The Disproportionate Rise In Opioid Overdose Deaths Among Black Americans	54
The Indian Health Service Is Associated With Higher-Quality Perinatal Care For American Indian And Alaska Native People	53
Cultivating Vital Conditions For Perinatal Well-Being And A Sustained Commitment To Reproductive Justice	53
Estimating The Impact Of Out-Of-Pocket Cost Changes On Abandonment Of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis	53

Structural Inequities In The Adoption Of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Services By US Hospitals, 2000–20	52
Trauma Center Hospitals Charged Higher Prices For Some Nontrauma Care Than Non–Trauma Center Hospitals, 2012–18	51
Adopting Weight-Based Dosing With Pharmacy-Level Stewardship Strategies Could Reduce Cancer Drug Spending By Millions	51
Proposing A Racism-Conscious Approach To Policy Making And Health Care Practices	50
Increasing Access To Perinatal Mental Health Care: The Perinatal Psychiatry Access Program Model	49
Food Insufficiency Increased After The Expiration Of COVID-19 Emergency Allotments For SNAP Benefits In 2023	48
Health Insurance Coverage Projections For The US Population And Sources Of Coverage, By Age, 2024–34	46
Neighborhoods And Health: Interventions At The Neighborhood Level Could Help Advance Health Equity	45
Availability Of Adult Dental Plans In The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, 2016–23	45
Improved Insurance Coverage Increased Biosimilar Semglee’s Market Share After The FDA’s Interchangeability Designation	44
Health Insurance Coverage In Low- And Middle-Income Countries Remains Far From The Goal Of Universal Coverage	43
A ‘Communiversity’ Seeks To Reduce Local Environmental Hazards	43
Trends In Patient Cost Sharing For Hospital Care And Implications For Urban And Rural Hospital Revenue	43
Expanded Contraceptive Access Linked To Increase In College Completion Among Women In Colorado	42
Pharmaceuticals, Private Equity, Child Health, And More	41
Medicare Risk Adjustment: Goals, Reform Proposals, And New Frontiers	41
Loneliness Among Older Adults	40
Prescription Digital Therapeutics: Devices	38
Ambulance Destinations, Race, And Ethnicity	38
Errata	38
Statement Of Ownership & Circulation	36
For Some Patients, Better Health Starts With Finding A Home	36
Risk Adjustment, Insurance Markets, And More	36
Adolescent Residential Addiction Treatment In The US: Uneven Access, Waitlists, And High Costs	35
Statement Of Ownership & Circulation	35
The Community As A Full Partner: A New Model For Public Health	35
‘Housing First’ Increased Psychiatric Care Office Visits And Prescriptions While Reducing Emergency Visits	35
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Certifications: Higher-Volume Physicians Associated With Less Evidence Of Care Coordination	35
Perinatal Depression Associated With Increased Pediatric Emergency Department Use And Charges In The First Year Of Life	35
Black, Hispanic, And Asian Adults In The US Had Substantially Lower Engagement On The Naloxone Care Cascade, 2024	35
Changes In Net Prices And Spending For Pharmaceuticals After The Introduction Of New Therapeutic Competition, 2011–19	34
Demographic Variation In US Outpatient Hydroxychloroquine And Ivermectin Use During The COVID-19 Pandemic	33
Transforming Public Health Practice With Generative Artificial Intelligence	32
Health Care Costs Associated With Hospice Use For People With Dementia In The US	32
California’s COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Policy: Cases, Hospitalizations, And Deaths Averted In Affected Communities	32
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Health Care Utilization And Expenditures In Adulthood	32
After Risk-Adjustment Change, Dementia Diagnoses Increased In Medicare Advantage Relative To Traditional Medicare	31
Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Buprenorphine Receipt Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2015–19	31
Rapid Growth Of Remote Patient Monitoring Is Driven By A Small Number Of Primary Care Providers	30
Nonprofit Hospital Investments At $300 Billion In 2023 With Rising Complexity, Volatility	30
Integrating Maternity Care Through Bundled Payments In The Netherlands: Early Results And Policy Lessons	29
Health Insurance As Climate Adaptation: A Practical Framework	29
Variation And Changes In The Targeting Of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments	29
COVID-19 Revealed Shortcomings Of The US Public Health System And The Need To Strengthen Funding And Accountability	29
Combining Patient Survey Data With Diagnosis Codes Improved Medicare Advantage Risk-Adjustment Accuracy	29
Children, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, And More	28
Saving Medicaid And Ourselves	28
Rural Hospitals Experienced More Patient Volume Variability Than Urban Hospitals During The COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020–21	28
Africa Is Sliding Into Catastrophe Before Our Eyes	28
Disability And Health	27

FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation Reduced Late-Stage Drug Development Time	26
Can Innovative Financing Move The Needle On Health Equity?	26
Waiting For On-Call Care	26
Making Time For More Compassionate Care	26
How Industrial Policy Could Accelerate Innovation In The Life Sciences	25
Medicare Advantage Plans Pay Large Markups To Consolidated Dialysis Organizations	25
Antidepressant Prescriptions Increased For Privately Insured People With Perinatal Mood And Anxiety Disorder, 2008–20	25
Price Transparency, Medicare, Medicaid, And More	25
Growth In Number Of Practices And Clinicians Participating In Concierge And Direct Primary Care, 2018–23	25
Medicare Part D Protected-Class Policy Is Associated With Lower Drug Rebates	25
US Nonprofit Hospitals Have Widely Varying Criteria To Decide Who Qualifies For Free And Discounted Charity Care	24
Workforce Composition In Private Equity–Acquired Versus Non–Private Equity–Acquired Physician Practices	24
ETR	24
Mitigating Racial And Ethnic Bias And Advancing Health Equity In Clinical Algorithms: A Scoping Review	24
Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments During Pregnancy Were Associated With Decreased Odds Of Adverse Birth Outcomes	24
Mortal Systemic Exclusion Yielded Steep Mortality-Rate Increases In People Experiencing Homelessness, 2011–20	24
Use Of Social Determinants Of Health Z Codes Was Sparse, 2016–22	24
Characteristics Of Medical Device Shortages In The US, 2006–20	23
COVID-19 Federal Funding To Health Centers: Tracking Distribution, Locations, And Patient Characteristics	23
A Strategy To Support Perinatal Mental Health By Collaborating With Tribal Communities In Montana	23
Medigap Regulations Provide Protections For Beneficiaries, Especially After Health Shocks, But May Raise Premiums	22
To Profit Or Not? Lessons From The Insurance Front Lines	21
Maternal Contact With Child Protective Services Associated With Less Postpartum Care In Wisconsin, 2010–19	21
Prescription Digital Therapeutics: Assertions	21
Benchmarking Changes And Selective Participation In The Medicare Shared Savings Program	21
Realities Of Revitalizing US Biomedical Research	21
A Foundation For Health And Well-Being: Meaningful Employment	21
Private Equity Acquisition Of Primary Care Practices: Modest Growth In Clinicians Offset By Increased Clinician Exits	21
Minnesota Public Health Corps: A New Model For Building The Governmental Public Health Workforce	20
Value-Based Purchasing Design And Effect: A Systematic Review And Analysis	20
When Safety-Net Programs Compete: Medicaid, 340B, And The Battle Over Drug Discounts	20
Favorable Selection Among Dually Enrolled Beneficiaries In Private Medicare Plans	20
Anatomy Of A Slowdown: Decomposing The Moderation In Health Spending Growth, 2009–19	20
Medicaid And Methadone For Opioid Use Disorder: Expanded Coverage Increased Distribution In 10 States, 2019–24	20
Fluctuating State Medicaid Dental Coverage: Asymmetric Impact Of Benefit Cuts And Expansions, 2010–21	20
Comparing The Effects Of Nudges And Automatic Plan Switching On Choice Errors Among Low-Income Marketplace Enrollees	20
Foreign-Born Workers Made Up Half The Increase In The Direct Care Workforce In Home And Community Settings, 2012–22	20
Continuous Eligibility And Coverage Policies Expanded Children’s Medicaid Enrollment	20
Oregon Community Benefit Reform Influenced Not-For-Profit Hospitals’ Charity Care And Medical Debt Write-Off	19
The Risk Of Perpetuating Health Disparities Through Cost-Effectiveness Analyses	19
Increases In COVID-19 Vaccination Among NYC Municipal Employees After Implementation Of Vaccination Requirements	19
Medicare Advantage: National Carriers Expand Market Share While Regional Carriers Without Affiliation Decline, 2012–23	19
Judicial Decisions Constraining Public Health Powers During COVID-19: Implications For Public Health Policy Making	19
Under Global Budgets, Hospital Utilization In Maryland Decreased By 11 Percentage Points More Than In Other States, 2013–23	19
Medicare Advantage Enrollment Since The ACA: What The Projections Did Not Foresee	18
Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare Differences: The Authors Reply	18
Dual-Eligible Nursing Home Residents: Enrollment Growth In Managed Care Plans That Coordinate Care, 2013–20	18
Losing Our Way In A Rare Disease Diagnostic Odyssey	18
To The Best Friend Who Gave Up On Me, 20 Years Later	18
Studies Of Prescription Digital Therapeutics Often Lack Rigor And Inclusivity	18
Health Insurance Coverage Among Black Immigrant Adults	18
Opioid Use Disorder Medicaid Waivers: The Authors Reply	18
Rhode Island’s Affordability Standards Led To Hospital Price Reductions And Lower Insurance Premiums	17
COVID-19 Disruption To Routine Health Care Services: How 8 Latin American And Caribbean Countries Responded	17
After 50 Years, Health Professional Shortage Areas Had No Significant Impact On Mortality Or Physician Density	17
Early OxyContin Marketing Linked To Long-Term Spread Of Infectious Diseases Associated With Injection Drug Use	17
National Health Expenditure Projections, 2022–31: Growth To Stabilize Once The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends	17
Buprenorphine Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder: Comparison Of Insurance Restrictions, 2017–21	17
Criminalized For Reproducing: Parenthood, Displacement, And War	17
how fouled the senses	17
Intended And Unintended Outcomes After FDA Pediatric Antidepressant Warnings: A Systematic Review	17
The Relationships Among Cash Prices, Negotiated Rates, And Chargemaster Prices For Shoppable Hospital Services	17
Availability Versus Accessibility: Identifying COVID-19 Testing Deserts Across Massachusetts	17
Estimated Savings From Extending Prescription Drug Inflationary Rebates To All Commercial Plans	16
Provider Relief Funds And Hospital Profits: The Authors Reply	16
Medicaid, Drug Pricing, Aging, And More	16
Supporting Formerly Incarcerated People With Recovery	16
Inequities In The Use Of High-Quality Home Health	16
Reimagining Public Health	16
The Costs Of Disparities In Preventable Heart Failure Hospitalizations In The US South, 2015–17	16
Standing Up For My Sister	16
Public Health During COVID-19 And More	15
More Than Methadone Dispensers: The Authors Reply	15
Four Opportunities To Revitalize The US Biomedical Research Enterprise	15
Patients Receive Flexible And Accessible Care When State Workforce Barriers Are Removed	15
Public Perceptions Of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies In Europe: Socioeconomic Status And Trust Were Factors	15
Medicare, Cancer Care, And More	15
Bridging The Gap From Maternal Crises To Care	15
The Youth Mental Health Crisis In The US: Lack Of Political Will Poses The Greatest Barrier To Meaningful Action	15
State-Level Variation In Low-Value Care For Commercially Insured And Medicare Advantage Populations	15

Medicare Local Coverage Determinations: Evidence Quality Is Stronger For Covered Indications	14
Substantial Growth In Medicare Advantage And Implications For Reform	14
Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnoses Among Commercially Insured People Increased, 2008–20	14
Hospitals Acquired By Private Equity Firms: Increased Postoperative Mortality For Common Inpatient Surgeries	14
New Cancer Drug Approvals: Less Than Half Of Important Clinical Trial Uncertainties Reported By The FDA To Clinicians, 2019–22	14
Reimagining Public Health: Mapping A Path Forward	14
Health Spending, Physician Practice, And More	14
Third-Party Convener Firms And The Rise Of Geographically Dispersed, High-Earning Medicare ACOs	14
Trend Toward Older Maternal Age Contributed To Growing Racial Inequity In Very-Low-Birthweight Infants In The US	14
Nursing Home Staffing: Share Of Immigrant Certified Nursing Assistants Grew As US-Born Staff Numbers Fell, 2010–21	14
Perinatal Care Measures Are Incomplete If They Do Not Assess The Birth Parent–Infant Dyad As A Whole	14
Economic Well-Being And Health: The Role Of Income Support Programs In Promoting Health And Advancing Health Equity	14
Extended Postpartum Medicaid In Colorado Associated With Increased Treatment For Perinatal Mood And Anxiety Disorders	14
Prescription Real-Time Benefit Tools: Clinicians Receive Frequent Alerts Yet Rarely Accept The Suggested Changes	14
Understanding And Comparing Economic Assistance Models To Improve Food Security And Diet Quality: A Rapid Review	14
Racial And Ethnic Inequities In Postpartum Depressive Symptoms, Diagnosis, And Care In 7 US Jurisdictions	14
Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Via Community Resources: Lessons From Accountable Health Communities	14
Reclaiming Ancestral Abundance	13
State Variations In Progress Toward Eliminating Disparities In Infant Mortality, 2007–19	13
Strategic Selection And Pricing Power: Optum’s Acquisitions Of Ambulatory Surgery Centers And Physician Practices	13
The Extent Of Gender/Sex Variables Included In Clinical Algorithms Across Medical Specialties	13
Caring For The Body And Mind In Long-Term Care	13
Is It Working? Evaluating The First Round Of Medicare Drug Price Negotiations	13
Financial Coaching Offers New Paths To A Healthy Future	13
Street Medicine For OUD After Emergency Department Visit: The Authors Reply	13
My Story Of Trauma And Reproductive Health	13
Meeting Care Needs, Pharmaceuticals, And More	13
Health Care Workers In A Storm’s Path	13
Excess Deaths Will Continue In The United States Until The Root Causes Are Addressed	13
Insights About The Opioid Crisis	13
State Laws Banning Prior Authorization For Medications For Opioid Use Disorder Increased Substantially, 2015–23	13
Terror Kingdom	13
Reduced Medicare Advantage Insurer Concentration Associated With Small Improvements In Market Outcomes, 2013–23	13
US National Spending On Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Treatment Driven By Case Growth, 2000–21	13
Drug Coverage Policies And Clinical Guidelines Alignment: Most Coverage Decisions Include Additional Restrictions	13
State Mandates On Naloxone Coprescribing Associated With Short-Term Increase In Naloxone Codispensing	13
Health Care Workforce Pay Gaps: COVID-19 Modestly Compressed Wage Disparities, 2015–24	13
Behavioral Health, Nursing Home Workforce, And More	13
Stipends From Hospitals To Emergency Medicine And Anesthesiology Clinicians Increased In California, 2002–21	13
Medicaid Payment For Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Prompts More Equitable Use	13
Workforce Projections For Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, And Physician Associates	12
Drugs Are Not Microchips: Whither Industrial Policy In The Life Sciences?	12
Coming Up Short: How Cancer Drug Shortages Affect Care	12
Learning The Limits Of Health Care Sharing Plans	12
The COVID-19 Pandemic Led To A Large Decline In Physician Gross Revenue Across All Specialties In 2020	12
Differences In Debt Among Postgraduate Medical Residents By Self-Designated Race And Ethnicity, 2014–19	12
Factors Influencing Rural Hospitals’ Decisions To Join An Alternative Payment Model: A Mixed-Methods Study	12
Naloxone Access And Harm Reduction Among AANHPI Communities	12
Patent Challenges And Litigation On Inhalers For Asthma And COPD	12
Many Clinicians Implement Digital Equity Strategies To Treat Opioid Use Disorder	12
Prior Authorization In Medicare Advantage: Beneficiary Exposure And Plan Disenrollment In 2021	12
Erratum	12
Promoting Access To Hospital Care In Rural Areas: Current Approaches And Ongoing Challenges	12
From Laggard To Leader: Why Health Care In The United States Is Failing, And How To Fix It	12
Higher Rates Of Homelessness Are Associated With Increases In Mortality From Accidental Drug And Alcohol Poisonings	12
Contraceptives At The Counter: Pharmacists Prescribed A Fraction Of Overall Contraceptives, 2022	12
proc prun / roses	12
Medicaid: Increased Patient Access To MOUD In Residential Treatment Associated With Facility Openings And Closures, 2012–22	12
State Eviction Moratoriums During The COVID-19 Pandemic Were Associated With Improved Mental Health Among People Who Rent	12
Medicaid Asset Limits And Enrollment Among Older Adults And People With Disabilities	12
Reflections On Epidemiological Modeling To Inform Policy During The COVID-19 Pandemic In Western Europe, 2020–23	12
Increases In Physician Professional Fees In Private Equity–Owned Gastroenterology Practices	12
Expected Out-Of-Pocket Costs: Comparing Medicare Advantage With Fee-For-Service Medicare	12
Health Benefits In 2024: Higher Premiums Persist, Employer Strategies For GLP-1 Coverage And Family-Building Benefits	12
Loss Of Public Health Emergency Funds Challenges The Financial Viability Of Nursing Homes, Especially Not-For-Profit Facilities	12
The COVID-19 Uninsured Program: Nearly 39 Million Vaccine Doses Were Funded, 2020–22	11
The Role Of Real Estate Investment Trusts In Staffing US Nursing Homes	11
Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Failed To Achieve Hospital Readmission Reductions And Other Targets	11
Hospital- And Private Equity–Affiliated Specialty Physicians Negotiate Higher Prices Than Independent Physicians	11
Spending, Payment, And More	11
Associations Between Dependent-Related Job Lock And Adult Mental And Physical Health	11
Lack Of Persistent Coding In Traditional Medicare May Widen The Risk-Score Gap With Medicare Advantage	11
Housing And Health	11
Obstetric Care Access Declined In Rural And Urban Hospitals Across US States, 2010–22	11
Equity And Justice In Food As Medicine	11
Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Epidemiological, Social, And Economic Impact Of COVID-19 In Latin America And The Caribbean	11
Oncology Drugs: The Authors Reply	11
Proposed Social Drivers Of Health Bonds Offer Promising Improvements But Face Many Challenges To Implementation	11
Cancer Drugs, Medical Debt, Cybersecurity, And More	11
Private Equity Acquisitions In Primary Care: Changes In Utilization, Spending, And Workforce	11
Abortion Restrictions Threaten Miscarriage Management In The United States	11
Tubal Sterilization And Vasectomy Increased Among US Young Adults After The Dobbs Supreme Court Decision In 2022	11
Many Intensive Care Units Were Overloaded While Nearby Hospitals Had Excess Capacity During The COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Nursing Homes, Medicaid, Physicians, And More	11
Estimating Medicaid Reimbursement For Psychological Services	11
Echoes Of Trauma: Post–Intensive Care Syndrome	11